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The purpose of this page is to help users of Wikipedia solve problems they may encounter when browsing or editing. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, try asking at Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or at the Village pump.
If the copy you're looking at is the current copy, without the popups installation, then all should be well: if you shift-reload a page in Wikipedia then the popups should be gone. Otherwise, you have to shift-reload or perform some other ritual to get the javascript page to reflect the current version.
Navigation popups is an opt-in Wikipedia gadget (feature) that offers article previews and several functions through popup windows when hovering over wikilinks. It should not be confused with the default Page Previews and Reference Tooltips, which appear for all registered and unregistered users and serve as more reader-focused popups.
Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari: Hold down the ⇧ Shift key and click the Reload toolbar button. For details and instructions about other browsers, see Wikipedia:Bypass your cache .
A Wikipedia Toolbar Button is also available for the Google Toolbar for Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) allowing direct searches from the search box or from highlighting any text on any page. It also displays the most recent pages added in a menu.
Chrome, Chromium (the open source variant of Chrome), and Brave (a browser based on Chromium) all have an address bar can be configured to search Wikipedia. Click the kebab menu to the right of the search bar.
@One cookie: I wouldn't worry about it, as this tool is aimed at editors not readers. As the documentation says, the code just picks the first image it comes across in the wiki text. At User:John of Reading/X2 I've swapped the parameters over, and popups is displaying the plane rather than the logo.
"Show edit toolbar" is the legacy 1.0 version that gives a row of buttons. (See m:help:Edit toolbar for details.) "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" gives a frame with icons. It is a default feature that can be turned off. is a search and replace dialog that can accept regular expressions as a search target for replacement text.