Browser extension · 2026

Wiki-Cleaner

Firefox extension that turns Wikipedia’s internal links into plain text.

What it does

Links to other articles on the same Wikipedia become plain text; switch it off and they come back exactly as they were.
Citation markers like [1] and [2] are hidden while you read.
Infoboxes, navigation tables, footnotes, edit links, external links and links to other language editions are left alone.
Content Wikipedia loads after the page opens is cleaned too.
One switch, in the toolbar or on right-click, and the choice is remembered.
Works on every Wikipedia language edition; the interface is in English or Turkish.

Problem: Every blue word in a Wikipedia article is an invitation to open one more tab.
My role: My own project: idea, design, development.
Solution: A plain JavaScript extension that runs only on Wikipedia article pages and asks for two permissions, storage and contextMenus. It makes no network requests and stores only the on/off switch.
Result: Published on Firefox Add-ons for Firefox 142 and later. Each release is tested, signed by Mozilla and published by CI from a tagged commit; the latest is v1.3.0, under MIT.

A Firefox extension that turns Wikipedia’s internal links into plain text and hides citation markers.

It is plain JavaScript with no external libraries. It makes no network requests and collects no data, and it is signed by Mozilla.