Category: Kiwix JS

Coming to a Browser Extension Store near you, Version 4.0 is a major (10 years!) anniversary milestone for Kiwix JS now comes with full high-fidelity support for all known ZIM archives! Updating Kiwix-JS This release has important new features, together with significant under-the-hood refactoring. If you use the Extension in Service Worker mode, it will...read more

Kiwix JS PWA and Electron / NWJS / UWP apps for Linux and Windows are now at version 2.5.6. These apps Features: Greatly improved file and folder picking experience for Firefox users and for any browser or framework that supports the Webkitdirectory API. The app now has the ability to pick a folder of ZIM archives in...read more

WikiMed by Kiwix is now at v2.4.8. The headline feature is a new, modern bundling system which makes a smaller, faster core app with better memory management, while still supporting the same wide range of modern and legacy browsers. The packages contain the March 2023 WikiMed English ZIM (mdwiki_en_all_maxi_2023-03), because there have been no new...read more

This is a big milestone for the lightweight JavaScript-based app!

There are new releases of the lightweight, JavaScript-based Kiwix JS reader: version 3.4.0 of the browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome and Edge; and version 1.9.6 of the Electron/NWJS and UWP versions of Kiwix JS for Windows and Linux. The browser extension version is very handy, because it is always right there in your favourite browser. You...read more

Kiwix-JS is a light-weight alternative to Kiwix for Windows but most importantly it is the one powering the Kiwix browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox! Because of some limitations its primary purpose is to help people access Wikipedia offline, as at the moment it is not compatible with videos or zimit-generated zim files. Here...read more

The lightweight web app and browser extension version of Kiwix, Kiwix JS, has now reached version 3.0. It is primarily intended for use as a browser extension/add-on, and you can find one for your browser by searching for Kiwix in the Mozilla, Chrome and Edge extension stores. Now you can have modern, fully supported Kiwix right there...read more

Issues -whether they’re actual bug reports or feature requests- are the basics of any software improvement. Developers must be able to clearly identify the problems that are brought to them before they can attempt to improve things. Why report an issue? Well, it looks like something is not working properly on your app. You can...read more

So besides being the worst pun of the year for a blog title, there is an actual release of a Kiwix-JS extension for Edge, the new Microsoft browser with a cool logo. It also comes with the update for Kiwix-JS 2.8, that also works on Firefox and Chrome. New: Intelligently select the best Storage API...read more

Kiwix-JS is the browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Download it here (Google) or here (FF) and read zim files without leaving the comfort of your favourite browser window (call it confinement within your confinement). What is new Selectable dark mode for app UI and for articles; Optional transition between app pages; Native asset caching...read more