Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support

Re:Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support by moosingin3space on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:18PM (#15801800)

I'm not sure that there will be many XUL extensions left maintained after a while -- since no major browser supports them and the fact that WebExtensions is a much easier framework for development. As a result, I don't see much of a future in Firefox pre-Quantum forks.

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Re:Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support by bkdbkd on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:00PM (#15802257)

Yes, in time there won't be any XUL extenions. But what do they say we are all supposed do with that tiny nagging:'it worked yesterday, but not today' problem?

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Re:Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:43PM (#15802602)

Firefox's Extended Support Release, which will keep getting updates for almost a year, certainly helps.

I've been on ESR because of vimperator/pentadactyl not being portable, plus some other extensions like FoxyProxy, Tree Style Tabs etc.

But today I discovered tridactyl works well enough on latest FF to suit my vim-ish needs, while the other two have been fairly completely ported.

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Re:Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support by kibwen on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @06:49PM (#15803172)

Thanks for the tip about tridactyl, I've only seen Saka Key so far in this space.

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Re:Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support by michaelmrose on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:05AM (#15805170)

Neat saka tridactyl and vim vixen several interesting choices

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Re:Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support by Elvewyn on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:31AM (#15807009)

I did not like Saka Key (some weird behavior sometimes), but Vim Vixen comes close to VimFx.

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