User:Wikeditor21/Smarter Wikipedia

Smarter Wikipedia is a free, open source Firefox extension which aims to make Wikipedia more useful. It adds a "related articles" box to the left side of Wikipedia and integrates Wikipedia's search features into Firefox. It is aimed at Wikipedia power users. As of February 27, 2009 Smarter Wikipedia has been downloaded over 55,000 times.

Features

 * Adds "related articles" box to the left side of Wikipedia.
 * Adds "Search Wikipedia for ..." option to context menu when text is selected.

Criticisms

 * Various users has criticized the lack of support for other languages besides the English Wikipedia.

Technical details
The extension implements the addition to the context menu using an XUL overlay to the Firefox chrome. The "related articles" feature is implemented using an AJAX request to an web API.