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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014) by wz1000 on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:58AM (#13335130)
I've been using firefox exclusively for the last 5 years, and have been extremely happy with it. Sadly, I think my time with it is about to come to an end. With e10s, extensions that have been crucial to my daily needs, namely vimperator and pentadactyl, won't be compatible any more. I know this isn't entirely firefox's fault, as no one is willing to invest the significant amount of effort required to port them. However, from what I hear, WebExtenstions also simply doesn't offer the API to make these extensions possible.

I don't know what I'm going to be using, but I'm very interested in qutebrowser. The dev is active and has shown interest in adding support for WebExtensions to the browser.

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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014) by necessity on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:02AM (#13335155)
There is some discussion on porting Pentadactyl/Vimperator and on alternatives that support Electrolysis here: https://github.com/5digits/dactyl/issues/99
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014) by lcbiazon on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:30AM (#13335300)
It's a shame. What I did is installing VimFX, that is e10s ready, and stick around using for some weeks, trying to reproduce the same workflow I have for years with vimperator.

It's a pain at first, but I got used to it and now I don't have to care if vimperator/pentadactyl will be ported or not.

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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014) by wz1000 on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:20AM (#13335486)
IIRC, even the architecture VimFX is built on is planned to be obsolete by the end of the year.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014) by hvis on Friday January 06, 2017 @07:35AM (#13335813)
Its main developer, however, is looking into implementing the necessary WebExtensions API: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014) by Sylos on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:45AM (#13335371)
I don't know what the current state of the implementation is, but Mozilla definitely does have plans to add APIs to the WebExtensions-standard to allow the implementation of add-ons like Vimperator.
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