Reviews for Wikipedia Vector Skin
Wikipedia Vector Skin by Amanano
Review by Beef Strugglenoff
20 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by VanC, 8 months agoNice! Could you add a options panel for adding sites to the list... Or could you please add https://wiki.archlinux.org/ to the list?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Babilon, 9 months agoThe biggest problem with this addon is that it is not available for android. The new wikipedia look is atrocious and a UX nightmare.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18152254, a year agonice addon, small and works like a charm! can you add https://www.antwiki.org/ please?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18146886, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hehe, a year agosuper lightweight and perfect! i forgot i even had this extension, it feels so natural.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Cheesy8229, 2 years agoVery grateful for this extension, as the new Wikipedia skin is awful. However, dear Amanano, if possible, please fix the bug where accessing an article on Wikipedia through the search bar brings up the article page in the new skin instead of the old one (i.e. you have to refresh the page once in order for the extension to pull up the old skin). Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by LNQM, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by seir, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17770011, 2 years agoDoesn't work when using context Wikipedia search from within https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextual-search/ Must reload that opened Wiki page once again cuz it open new design at first. (Edit: 16 days. no response from developer, changing rating to 1/5, for now)
- Rated 5 out of 5by MrKrabs, 2 years agoThis is a great extension. However I have noticed that when you press enter to go to a page from searching on https://www.wikipedia.org/ it doesn't set it to the Vector Skin, although it does work if you click it. Also some search results seem to use the newer skin. Like when I search "JA" from https://en.wikipedia.org it uses the modern skin.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17602991, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17756375, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ardouronerous, 2 years agoI love this fix that you made, thank you. Your work deserves 5 stars for fixing something that shouldn't have been changed in the first place.
I do notice some issues though. The addon doesn't work if you are visiting Wikipedia without JavaScript enabled. I've always visited Wikipedia without JavaScript enabled for added security.
Please fix, if you can, thanks.
RE: I contacted you on your Reddit profile.
UPDATE: It seems to be working now.
Here's what I noticed, at first install of your addon, with Wikipedia set as UNTRUSTED on NoScript by default, it loads the Vector 2023 layout. But after setting Wikipedia as "Temp. TRUSTED" it loads Wikipedia. After restarting Firefox and visiting Wikipedia again, it loads Vector 2010 without setting it as "Temp. TRUSTED" on NoScript.Developer response
posted 2 years agoI just installed the NoScript extension and set Wikipedia to not trusted, just to test this. I wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Wikipedia and the old Vector Skin work perfectly fine for me, with and without JavaScript. How exactly did you disable JavaScript in your Firefox? - Rated 5 out of 5by EncoutererOfBugs, 2 years agoThere is a bug with the WP search results page. The redirect doesn't work properly when clicking the links there, maybe something to do with the tracking params appended to the URL.
Edit: The above problem seems to be fixed now.
I noticed that when opening WP via a bookmark with a keyword (and %s in the URL), the redirect doesn't take effect. It only does so on reloading the page. I don't know how https-everywhere does it, but it didn't seem to have this problem. The regex gets a bit tricky though, in order to handle sections in the URL (#), and probably breaks on cases I didn't think about. I haven't tried any other redirect extensions.
Not sure if there is a better way to leave comments here, if not maybe a repo on github or somewhere would be more manageable.Developer response
posted 2 years agoYou're right. For some reason those pesky parameters were partially URL-encoded and therefore not recognized by the server. I still don't know why exactly that happened, but I was able to fix it. In version 1.3 the Wikipedia search results page should work perfectly normal now. - Rated 5 out of 5by Rey, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TnF, 2 years agoA million thanks. Now i will go and find the idiot that redesigned wikipedia and beat his ass.
- Rated 5 out of 5by hschnellinger, 2 years agoThanks for this. Saved my day, can't stand 40% of my monitor being unused white space…