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Enabling this extension will allow you to use Google Custom Search to search across all Wikipedia articles for a given topic, as well as find relevant pages linked from the Wikipedia page that you are currently on, i.e., all the relevant linked pages on the current topic of interest.
The related changes feature (found in the "Tools" menu of the desktop version) lists all recent changes in pages linking to the current page, or to which the current page has a link. The page name can also be entered at Special:RecentChangesLinked , or specified in a link like Special:RecentChangesLinked/Apollo .
Omitting the page name is recommended when linking to a section in the same page because the link will work as expected when previewing changes or after moving the page. To format a link with the section sign (§) instead of a # (e.g. Page name § Section name rather than Page name#Section name ), use the template {{ Section link }} (or ...
A page history shows the order in which edits were made to any editable Wikipedia page, the difference between any two revisions, and a menu of special external tools. A page history is sometimes called revision history or edit history. You can view a page's history by clicking the "View history" tab at the top of the associated page (pictured ...
A refresh or reload and a stop button to reload and cancel loading the current page. (In most browsers, the stop button is merged with the reload button.) A home button to return to the start page. An address bar to input the URL of a page and display it, and a search bar to input queries into a search engine. (In most browsers, the search bar ...
Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla and SeaMonkey Browsers/Search toolbar; Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox/Extension: Document Map; Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox/Plugin: Highlight searching; Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox/Search within Textarea Extension with regex
In a web browser, the address bar (also location bar or URL bar) is the element that shows the current URL. The user can type a URL into it to navigate to a chosen website. In most modern browsers, non-URLs are automatically sent to a search engine. In a file browser, it serves the same purpose of navigation, but through the file-system hierarchy.
To get Wikipedia search results while on any web page, you can temporarily set your browser's (web-based) search box to interface the Wikipedia search engine and land on Wikipedia's search results page. This trick removes the need to first navigate to Wikipedia from a web page, and then do the search or navigation. It is a temporary change, and ...