Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
by Vinnl on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:37AM
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Yes, but in VimFx's case it's more a matter of the developer not feeling like it considering Vimium is available, which for me has been a drop-in replacement of VimFx. I just assumed that as you mentioned Vimperator, you wanted the complete, somewhat more invasive, experience.
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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
by Vinnl on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:02AM
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Note: I should correct this. It's not about the developer not feeling like it, but about him only wanting to do it without having to work around API limitations like Vimium had to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061#c3
Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
by doktrin on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:46AM
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It's preferable, but if I'm honest Vimium is Good Enough(tm) for my general use case. I didn't realize they had a FF57 compatible version :)
Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
by Crespyl on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:37PM
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Vimium is /mostly/ there, but gaps in the WebExtensions API make the experience rough in my experience.
The biggest issue for me, right now, is that there are a lot of places where FF won't allow WebExtensions to intercept key events for shortcuts, like on the new tab page, error pages, any other "system" pages, or certain pinned tabs (this one is particularly inconsistent). This means that if I'm jumping through several tabs with J/K and hit any of those by accident, I'm stuck there until I figure out what happened and either use the mouse or the official hotkeys to switch back out.
Same with focusing the URL bar and the slightly quirky experience of the omnibar that Vimium has to use instead.
It works, but mostly serves to remind me how much I miss VimFX rather than to improve my productivity.