About this extension

Kiwix is an offline wikipedia viewer. See the official site: https://kiwix.org/

You need to download an archive (ZIM file) from https://download.kiwix.org/zim/, store it in on your device, and manually select it after starting the extension.

You can search among the article titles, and read any of them without any Internet access.
All the content of wikipedia is inside your device (including the images).
It might also works with other content in the OpenZIM format: https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM , but has been only tested on the wikipedia and stackexchange ones.

If your Internet access is expensive/rare/slow/unreliable/watched/censored, you still can browse this amazing amount of knowledge and culture.

Developer comments

Firefox only supports the jQuery mode, because it disables ServiceWorkers in WebExtensions. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344561

Rate your experience

Report this add-on for abuse

If you think this add-on violates Mozilla's add-on policies or has security or privacy issues, please report these issues to Mozilla using this form.

Please don't use this form to report bugs or request add-on features; this report will be sent to Mozilla and not to the add-on developer.

Release notes for 2.8.0

NEW: Intelligently select the best Storage API for storing settings between sessions (cookie or localStorage)
NEW: Display title search results progressively instead of waiting for search to complete before displaying them
NEW: User can change depth of title search from Configuration
UPDATE: Better handling of case in title search, returning more accurate search results
UPDATE: Use const to declare constants, enabling better app memory management
UPDATE: Use SameSite=Strict for any residual cookie usage to conform to new security standards
BUGFIX: Major blocking bug causing high memory usage and slow load times when reading MIME type table of recent ZIM archives

Used by

Report this add-on for abuse