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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by bovine3dom on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:06AM (#14978456)
This is probably a good place to plug the fact that Vimperator is going to die with FF57 [1].

If anyone wants to help with making an alternative, look through that thread. I'm particularly invested in Tridactyl [2] but other people are working on others.

[1] https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705

[2] https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl

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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by ronjouch on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:26AM (#14978567)
Not strictly feature-equivalent, but there's already a working (I use it everyday) port of Vimium for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by StevePerkins on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:11AM (#14978823)
I've been using VimFX all along, which is actively maintained and already compatible with multiprocess.

It's a web browser, not an actual text editor. 99% of the time, you're just wanting familiar keyboard commands for navigation. It feels like Vimperator does so many impractical things almost tongue-in-cheek, just to show how cool it is that they're theoretically possible.

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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by ronjouch on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:57AM (#14979135)
VimFx is not compatible with multiprocess, it will stop working soon.

See https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/issues/860 :

    - You can use the current VimFx for the rest of 2017.
    - Then, Vimium is your best bet: philc/vimium#2425
    - VimFx is free software, so if somebody feels like converting it to a WebExtension they're totally free to do so! (But you're probably going to spend your time more wisely on Vimium.)
    - I hope to create a new add-on with the best parts from VimFx some day.
    - Firefox will become a better browser! It’s sad but worth the sacrifice.
Vimium-FF does works right now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by nemetroid on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:18AM (#14990514)
VimFx is perfectly compatible with multiprocess, as stated in the issue you linked:

https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/issues/860#issuecomme...

The issue is that VimFx is not feasible to convert into a WebExtension.

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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by inyourtenement on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:28PM (#14981317)
Ugh, that sucks, I just switched to VimFx because I thought it was ff57+ compatible. Now I'm not sure where I got that idea.

I haven't used vimium-ff, but it hasn't been updated in 3 months and the comments on mozilla are not encouraging.

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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by ronjouch on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:25PM (#14982631)
Well, "soon" is tomorrow August 11: "PSA: Legacy extensions disabled by default on Nightly": https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-addons/2017-August/00...
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Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions by bovine3dom on Thursday August 10, 2017 @09:16AM (#14979293)
I disagree, respectfully.

I like that there's always more stuff to learn about Vimperator. It's fun. There's a nice thread on GitHub where people are talking about their favourite features:

https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/729

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