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The purpose of this page is to help users of Wikipedia solve problems they may encounter when browsing or editing. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, try asking at Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or at the Village pump .
A Wikipedia Toolbar Button is also available for the Google Toolbar for Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) allowing direct searches from the search box or from highlighting any text on any page. It also displays the most recent pages added in a menu.
Wikipedia Toolbar is an add-on (extension) for Mozilla Firefox. It speeds up Wikipedia navigation by making the most common Wikipedia page functions always accessible from a fixed location in your browser window. This eliminates the need to scroll around the pages themselves in order to find and click on navigational links.
Wikipedia gets own server, running English Wikipedia and after a bit meta, with rewritten PHP software. Runs both the database and the web server on one machine. One of Bomis's servers continues to host some of the other languages on UseModWiki, but most of the active ones are gradually moved over to the other server during this period.
Type the '@' key into the search bar. Type the keyword for Wikipedia (by default it's '@wikipedia') Press tab once the box to the left of the search bar automatically fills with the Wikipedia logo and "Wikipedia." You should now have one search on Wikipedia through the search bar by means of they keyword.
Navigation popups is an opt-in Wikipedia gadget (feature) that offers article previews and several functions through popup windows when hovering over wikilinks. It should not be confused with the default Page Previews and Reference Tooltips , which appear for all registered and unregistered users and serve as more reader-focused popups.
The ISBN and URL lookup is not working again (still?) on RefToolbar 1.0 (Wikipedia talk:RefToolbar 1.0 might be stale?) I prefer RefToolbar 1.0 and I use ISBNs a lot. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 02:07, 4 May 2012 (UTC) Unfortunately, I don't think anyone is still maintaining the old RefToolbar 1.0 code so it may be flakey.
User control over Windows Updates is removed (except in enterprise versions). In earlier versions, users could opt for updates to be installed automatically, or to be notified so they could update as and when they wished, or not to be notified; and they could choose which updates to install, using information about the updates.