Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path

Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path by sciurus on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:19PM (#14554770)

I wish there was an easy way to see which of my currently-installed addons are not compatible with Firefox 57+, instead of having to look at which I have installed and searching for each of them individually on addons.mozilla.org.

I did search and it looks like HTTPS Everywhere, LastPass, and RescueTime aren't compatible. Privacy Badger is compatible, which may satisfy people looking for an ad blocker.

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Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path by callahad on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:53PM (#14555054)

Try out Firefox 55 (Beta or Developer Edition). It puts a big "Legacy" badge next to each add-on that is not a WebExtension in about:addons.

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Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path by hendersoon on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:10PM (#14556518)

Hah, every one of my addons is legacy. FireGestures, LastPass, Session Manager, Tab Mix Plus, and uBlock Origin.

LastPass and uBlock Origin have Chrome versions so I have some degree of confidence they will be ported over.

FireGestures is absolutely essential to me, and no confidence there. Once Mozilla stops supporting XUL extensions I guess I'll use a Firefox fork or switch to Vivaldi. After... geez... 13 years of using Firefox. They finally forced me away.

Hopefully Vivaldi supports customizable mouse chord gestures by then.

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Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path by callahad on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:19PM (#14557244)

There are already several gesture add-ons that are compatible with Firefox 57 and beyond: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?q=mouse+gestures&...

Foxy Gestures in particular claims to be deeply inspired by FireGestures: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures/

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Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path by hendersoon on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:51AM (#14560929)

I'm dubious, because after nearly a decade, Chrome has exactly zero mouse gesture addons that I consider remotely usable. None of them work consistently. Not a single one is comparable to FireGestures.

But thanks for the link to Foxy Gestures-- I'll give it a shot!

Edit: Tried out Foxy Gestures. Not usable. First, no support for mouse button chording. Second, every single gesture pops up the right-click menu. Third, gestures don't work maybe 75% of the time-- difficult to tell if that's due to the right click menu popping up or if it's just plain broken.

Seems like it's this bug at fault. Mouse gesture Webextensions are broken on MacOS and Linux.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360278

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Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path by callahad on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:14PM (#14562882)

We're still nearly half a year away from Firefox 57's release, so many add-ons, like Foxy Gestures, are still going to be a bit rough. There's no harm in sticking with FireGestures for now, knowing that replacements are in the works.

(Though it's probably worth letting the Foxy Gestures author know what bits seem to be missing as a FireGestures user.)

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Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path by jovial_galileo on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:20PM (#14632257)

Use Firefox ESRv52 with XUL support until June 2018 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ Pale Moon started a fork of the current XUL-based Firefox. Hope it will be popular. I hate XUL but a lot of people love it. I hope it will live with Pale Moon. Why would you use Vivaldi? A browser is a very personal tool, why use proprietary software for it?

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