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Browser notes is a Wikipedia page aimed at helping contributors and readers learn of issues with various web browsers. It addresses what kind of issues users are facing .There is no perfect browser for viewing Wikipedia.

Please list the pros and cons of particular browsers for viewing and editing Wikipedia articles. Limit your contributions to practical drawbacks and actual experiences with various browsers in interaction with Wikipedia. If you wish to report a bug to do with Wikipedia's interaction with a browser, see Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests.

No browser wars, but if you must comment at length, take it to the Browser notes talk page, please.

Please change the order of the browsers to place the Consensus Best Browser first on the list for each platform and continue in order of preference. Keep comments brief.

Most browsers support a direct interface for searching Wikipedia. See Help:Searching for more information.

• Section "" links may be misplaced for some sections.

Google Chrome and Chromium

• Large text sizes in wikEd and Custom Regex Gadgets?

Opera

• Superscript text creates a few pixels of extra line space. There is a fix, though with the fix the superscript/subscript text looks <small> and slightly raised or lowered instead of superscripted or subscripted, making it hard to determine what is superscripted or subscripted in some instances.
• Quotes not displaying on Wikipedia pages properly?
  • Click on View → Encoding → Automatic Selection.

Internet Explorer and MSHTML-based browsers

Old versions of IE demonstrate poor support of relatively recent (e.g., post-1999) W3C Web standards, but are still in use. As a result, certain elements may not look or work exactly right, although generally a workaround of some kind is implemented server-side if possible. Among the most visible issues are:

• Prior to version 7, IE does not support alpha transparency of PNG images, showing an opaque grey background instead.
• Prior to version 8, IE does not render the <q>...</q> tag with quote marks.
• Prior to version 10, IE does not support CSS3 columns, showing text formatted using {{reflist}} or {{div col}} in a single column.
• IE running on Windows XP does not override the display font where glyphs do not exist in that font, such as for passages of multilingual text or IPA used for pronunciation. Templates exists to work around this deficiency (see Template talk:Polytonic, Template talk:IPA, Template talk:Unicode).
• Due to increasing incompatibilities in scripting, JavaScript has been disabled for IE 6 and 7 on all projects.

Safari

OmniWeb 4.5+

OmniWeb is no longer maintained, but is still available for download.

• v?: Does not display popups at all.

Shiira

Also has been discontinued.

• 1.2.2: Problems with authentication.
• 2.2: Upon crashing, it may lose recently added bookmarks.

Google Chrome

• 32.0: Does not display IPA fonts correctly

Firefox

• 41.0.2 works well.

Konqueror

• Konqueror may trigger automatic protection that Wikipedia has in place to make it harder for some spiders if a web shortcut for Wikipedia is enabled and used. Make sure Konqueror is identifying itself to Wikipedia, preferably as itself.

Dillo

• Absence of Dillo from the support matrix at https://www.mediawiki.org?pojem=Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix means no official support.
• In Debian 11 at 2022-09-18, Dillo 3.0.5-7 works nicely for reading. =8~) May allow editing.(?) Attempt to upload to Commons fails with a misleading error message mentioning the server. Better to say uploading from Dillo is not supported.
• To allow login, add this line in ~/.dillo/cookiesrc

.org    ACCEPT

• Formats quite nicely, but no CSS.
• A version not supporting UTF-8 renders special characters as gibberish but a patch solves the problem. As installed in Debian 11, Dillo is patched.

Warning: Many console browsers will convert text in edit boxes to the encoding in use by your terminal (or what the browser thinks is your terminal's encoding which may not be the same thing) either at page load time (links and lynx) or when editing a field (w3m). If your terminal encoding is UTF-8 this is not a problem but if your terminal is using a legacy encoding (or is using UTF-8 but your browser thinks it's using a legacy encoding) then this is likely to destroy characters that are not present in the encoding your terminal is using when you save the page after editing.

ELinks

• Text only, but renders tables and frames.
• Supports HTTP authentication.
• Users can use their text editor of choice to edit textarea fields.
• Problems with editing UTF-8; set "User-agent identification" (in setup->option manager->protocols->http) to something like "Lynx/elinks/%v (textmode; %s; %t-%b)" to get non-ascii characters as hex codes.
• View is enhanced (especially of diffs) by using the following user.css and lua hook file (place in ${HOME}/.elinks and enable via option manager)

user.css

/*
1. place in ~/.elinks
2. set user css to be "user.css" (no path, relative to ~/.elinks)
3. use document colors: use 1 or 2
*/

.diffchange {
	color: red;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.diff-deletedline {
	color: green;
}

.diff-addedline {
	color: cyan;
}

a.new {
	color: cyan;
	font-weight: bold;
}

hooks.lua

--
lua preformatting function 

1. lua has to be installed before compiling elinks; if this
   is the case, it is used by default
2. place this file in ~/.elinks

this file does:

show <del> and <ins> element, make <s> more evident

preformatting for wikipedia pages: since elinks ignores the
class attribute of <td> tags, we move it into the inner
<div> element



testing=false

function pre_format_html_hook (url, html) 
  -- formatting for <s> <del> <ins>
  html = string.gsub(html, '<sS>', '<s>S:')
  html = string.gsub(html, '</sS>', ':S</s>')
  html = string.gsub(html, '<dDeElL>', '<s>DEL:')
  html = string.gsub(html, '</dDeElL>', ':DEL</s>')
  html = string.gsub(html, '<iInNsS>', '<s>INS:')
  html = string.gsub(html, '</iInNsS>', ':INS</s>')

  -- diff-addedline and diff-deletedline classes
  if string.find(url, "diff=", 1, 1) or testing then
    html = string.gsub(html, '<td class="diff-addedline"><div>',
                             '<td><div class="diff-addedline">')
    html = string.gsub(html, '<td class="diff-deletedline"><div>',
                             '<td><div class="diff-deletedline">')
  end

  return html
end

Linksedit

• In old versions the login may be broken. (Try to check referrer sending and cookie handling. If everything fails try to use ELinks, and check the same settings.)

Lynxedit

• Users can use their text editor of choice to edit textarea fields (this feature needs to be enabled at compile time)
• Forces wrapping of very long lines in a textarea, which is a problem in editing some articles.
• Display options for non-ASCII characters affect editing.
• Most tables are rendered as simple text.
• Viewing of diffs and redlinks can be improved by adding the following to the lynx.lss configuration file:

  span.diffchange:bold:brightred

  td.diff-deletedline:bold:green

  td.diff-addedline:bold:cyan

  a.new:bold:cyan

See: Wikipedia:Wikipedia on PDAs and Help:Mobile access.

Ad-bustersedit

• See Mediazilla:5402.

Opera kiosk mode filteringedit

• May block access to articles if they begin with blocked strings such as "ad"

Atguard, Norton Internet Security, WebWasheredit

• On default settings, disallows access to articles beginning with the word "ad" (ad hoc, ad hominem etc.)

Adblock Filterset.G Updateredit

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

Unwanted effectsedit

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

Consent-O-Maticedit

• May break wikilinks during editing, e.g. changing foo to foo-en or foo|bar to foo|bar-en (discussion).

Dictionary of Numbersedit

• May arbitrarily remove strings starting with numbers when editing (discussion)

NoScriptedit

• 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 (discussion)

WikiTweakedit

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