Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Browser notes (section)

==Browser add-ons & proxies==

=== Ad-busters ===
* ''See [[Mediazilla:5402]].''

====Opera kiosk mode filtering====
* May block access to articles if they begin with blocked strings such as "ad"

====Atguard, Norton Internet Security, WebWasher====
* On default settings, disallows access to articles beginning with the word "ad" ([[ad hoc]], [[ad hominem]] etc.)

====Adblock Filterset.G Updater====
* Filterset set blocks /ad/ in URLs, use Adblock Plus and Filterset.G Whitelist to bypass (whitelists Wikimedia related URLs)

===Unwanted effects===
Some [[browser extension]]s are not fully compatible with Wikipedia or may have unwanted effects. Some extensions add text like when editing <code><nowiki><div class="myEventWatcherDiv"></nowiki></code>, <code>QuickiWiki Look Up</code>  or <code><nowiki><a class="ktg6us78hf8vdu7" href="javascript:void(0)"></nowiki></code>. Most of these are detected by [[Special:AbuseFilter/345|Edit Filter 345]] which issues a warning message.

====Consent-O-Matic====
* May break wikilinks during editing, e.g. changing <code><nowiki>[[foo]]</nowiki></code> to <code><nowiki>[foo-en]</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>[[foo|bar]]</nowiki></code> to <code><nowiki>[foo|bar-en]</nowiki></code> ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1111132766#Wikilink_markup_being_changed_by_MediaWiki discussion]).

====Dictionary of Numbers====
* May arbitrarily remove strings starting with numbers when editing ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gareth_Jones&oldid=556165153#Random_removal_of_strings discussion])

====[[NoScript]]====
* Intentionally blocks scripts (user-configurable by website) but may prevent fallback to the normal behaviour for browsers without JavaScript enabled, e.g. breaking the "New section" feature for some users ([[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 198#New section tab not working when JavaScript is disabled|discussion]])

====WikiTweak====
* Has a "Quicki<!-- Break string caught by edit filter -->Wiki" option which may arbitrarily add the string "Quicki<!-- Break string caught by edit filter -->Wiki Look Up" when editing ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Edit_filter/Requested&oldid=555558125#Adding_QuickiWiki discussion])

====[[StumbleUpon]]====
*May display italics markup <nowiki><i>...</i></nowiki> in page names instead of rendering in ''italics'' ([[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 95#Odd rendering of articles in 64-bit Firefox|discussion]])

====[[Skype]]====
[[File:QuestionaboutSkypeicon.png|thumb|right|If you find the Skype icon in an unexpected place, like in this image, your browser is likely misinterpreting a set of numbers as a phone number.]]

*May interpret certain integers as phone numbers and [[Features of Skype#Application features|turn them into links or icons]] (See image).

====Web filtering====
*Some [[content-control software]] ([[List of content-control software|list]]) may automatically block content it deems objectionable, or remove certain words from pages

====Displaying ads====
*Some browser extensions including Codec-C and InfoAtoms may add ads to Wikipedia pages without properly informing the user ([[WP:RFAQ#ADS|discussion]])

====File page bypassing====
*Some extensions may bypass the file page and jump directly to the actual file when an image is clicked, for example http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Example.png instead of [[:File:Example.png]]

===Search plugins===
Plugins that can be used to search Wikipedia more easily.

=== Textarea tools ===

====Lynx====
*Allows any text editor to be used once the option is set.
====Konqueror====
*Internally highlights misspelled words in textareas.
====Safari====
*Underlines misspelled words in textareas if you check the ''Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling as You Type'' option.  Control-click or right-click for a list of suggested corrections.
====OmniWeb====
*[http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gallery/content.html#spellchecking Underlines misspelled words] in textareas if you check the ''Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling as You Type'' option and offers more advanced [http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gallery/content.html#zoom editing options for textareas].
====Internet Explorer====
* [http://www.iespell.com/ IESpell] adds spellchecking to Internet Explorer.
* [http://bur.st/~benc/site/?external External] is a small program that may help you use any external program to edit the textareas in the browser
====Opera====
* Opera 10 and above: inline spelling checking based on the [[OpenOffice.org]] dictionaries called [[Hunspell]].
* pre Opera 10: Supports the spelling checking on Windows and Linux if you install [[GNU Aspell]]. [http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/opera/spellcheck/index.dml?platform=windows Instructions] are available from Opera.

====Mozilla and Firefox====
*[[Universal Edit Button]] adds an extra icon in the [[address bar]] for the editable pages
*'''[http://www.bananeweizen.de/ Wikipedia Extension]'''
**Adds a toolbar with various formatting functions and quicklinks to most Special: pages.
**Not tested on Mac
**Make sure you get the latest version, 0.7.1 as of this writing; download at update.mozilla.org is out-of-date and does not work on 1.0
*'''SpellBound''' adds spellchecking to Firefox, supporting international dictionaries. Download from [http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/ here] for Firefox up to 1.0.x and from [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=351130&highlight=spellbound here] for Firefox 1.5.x. Firefox 2.0.x has spellchecking built in.
*These tools add an option to the browser to use an external editor on a web page textarea.
**'''[http://mozex.mozdev.org/ Mozex''']
***Doesn't support Mozilla on Mac
***Doesn't support Firefox 1.0 as provided (see [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FireFox this] for a workaround)
**'''[http://electrix.mozdev.org/ Electrix''']
***Not currently maintained
**'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 It's All Text!''']

====Safari====
* '''[http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/ UnicodeChecker]''' allows in-place conversion of Unicode text to HTML entities and back.  Requires [[OS X Mountain Lion]] (10.8).  Freeware.
** Great for editing text in non-ISO-8859-1 character sets on the English-language Wikipedia (Cyrillic, etc.).
** Works as a system service from a menu (<code>Safari→Services→Unicode→</code>), or keyboard shortcut (<code>command-shift-8</code>).
* '''[http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/ CocoAspell]''' adds international spelling dictionaries to the inline spell-checker.  Freeware.
** Based on UNIX Aspell.