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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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