Such an extension is just pure nonsense, because you can use Wikipedia offline even without this extension, because Wikipedia creates a PDF file of the articles at the user's request.

Restricted Mode only.

I have been using Kiwix for over four years on a secured offline computer. The sole purpose has been to be able to access Wiktionary definitions of foreign words. For my needs, Kiwix has been hugely valuable and useful. Too, using Kiwix is far faster than using Wiktionary online.

That's a very good idea, but I really hate the fact it imposes the .zim format only. If I want it with .zip for instance, I cannot. In my opinion, it should allow .epub or .pdf download, as a way to select articles to make a book. That's a pity they don't offer this option.

Doesnt work.

La extensión funciona correctamente en lo que la he probado.

Me gusta poder utilizar contenido de forma offline y que es multiplataforma al ser una extensión de Mozilla Firefox.

Es muy útil, principalmente para personas que no pueden pagar conexiones de internet y también porque permite acceder a información sin establecer conexiones a servidores externos que podrían estar monitoreados por intermediarios (ej. en una empresa).

Es muy sencilla de utilizar e intuitiva, solo requiere descargar desde la web de Kiwix los archivos .zim que son de licencia libre.

Seguiré utilizando esta extensión en las máquinas portátiles principalmente que no siempre tengo acceso a internet.

¡Ojalá más personas conozcan el proyecto Kiwix!

Mixed reactions: the only cross-platform (Linux mint & Windows 10) kiwix viewer that works reliably when loading ZIM archives ad-hoc - SD cards, USB sticks, external and internal HDDs - but it wastes screen space like a maniac.

Either it was purposely designed to waste 50% of the depth of the screen (even when using firefox's F11 full-screen option) on the basis no one uses 'legacy' hardware that comes with a landscape screen, keyboard and touchpad or there is a pressing technical reason for the two-tier front end, but if so I can't work out what it is:

One banner (about 15% of the screen) is taken up with a version number and three buttons, all of them huge beyond reason even for touch screens) another 15% is consumed by a huge search box large enough to scrawl a signature; the bottom 15% is visible but only just, as it is used to frame the buttons that could fit - together with the search box - into the top tier and still have it fit into 10% of the screen (just like it does in the 'real' Kiwix app). The net effect is fully half the area that might otherwise display the selected article is rendered useless and none of this can be altered or hidden by the user.

For my money this is where an otherwise brilliant solution that fails miserably compared to native Kiwix installations run on identical hardware: in this respect content is key and that content is mostly in writing, where this looks more like a media player.

Traditional Kiwix might promise the earth but it does deliver, kinda: it's impossibly difficult to work oot where all the downloads, indexes etc are hidden, it's easy to waste huge amounts of data only for it to vanish into a labyrinthine file tree where the library management and indexing happens in a roaming profile that only works on one specific system but at least you can read the bl**dy content.

By that measure this viewer doesn't cut it: the net effect is a portable, system-independent ZIM archive reader that actively prevents the user putting it to its intended purpose by presenting Wikipedia as if the user is peering through a mail slot at Wikipedia on a neighbour's computer... which might possibly explain the huge, clunky GUI: it's intended to be used with a TV-size touch screen while sitting on a couch using a stylus taped to a pool cue.

Since the version for desktop is not served by the error of libpng, this addon for firefox has saved me to be able to consult the files ZIM, but, i suggest a option to open various ZIM files like the desktop version