FastestFox

FastestFox
Developer(s)	yongqli

Stable release	5.1.3 / 10 March 2013
Written in	JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Firefox extension Chrome extension
License	GPL
Website	www.smarterfox.com/

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History of Firefox v1 • v1.5 v2 v3 • v3.5 • v3.6 v4 v5 and later Features of Firefox Gecko Add-ons Extensions Firefox market adoption
Origins and lineage
Netscape Navigator Mozilla Foundation Mozilla Suite
Category

FastestFox (previously called SmarterFox and Smarter Wikipedia) is a Firefox extension that aims to make Wikipedia more convenient to use from the browser. It adds a "related articles" box to the left side of Wikipedia and integrates Wikipedia's search features into Firefox. It is aimed at Wikipedia power users.^[1] There is also a FastestFox Google Chrome extension.

Features

Adds a "related articles" box to the left side of Wikipedia.
Adds a "Search Wikipedia for..." option to context menus, when text is selected.

Technical details

The extension adds the "Search Wikipedia for..." option to context menus using XUL. The "related articles" feature is implemented using an AJAX request to a web API. Because the request is sent only after the page finishes loading, there is often a delay until results appear.

FastestChrome

FastestChrome is the port of FastestFox for Google Chrome. It is not fully functional, but includes most of the original features.

External links

References

↑ FastestFox

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