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Upgraded to Firefox 57, many extensions that work before didn't anymore, especially the Session Manager and a little extension that cleared cookies of the curre

by ww520 9y ago

Upgraded to Firefox 57, many extensions that work before didn't anymore, especially the Session Manager and a little extension that cleared cookies of the current website, which is badly needed for web development. After waiting for a while and nothing seem to come up, I've finally broken down and started writing extensions. The new WebExtensions api is not so bad. I was able to whip up a prototype after a day. The API has restriction due to the security model but there are ways to get around to get the job done.

rodorgas 9y ago
Is there a use case of Session Manager that about:profiles doesn’t cover?
- jameslk 9y ago
  It creates automatic snapshots of your sessions. If your session gets wiped or corrupted, you can fall back to one of the previous sessions. Or if you just want to go back to the tabs you had opened at a certain point in time, that's possible too. All of this is important for those of us who keep lots of tabs open. I personally treat my open tabs more like chronologically organized bookmarks and usually have over a thousand open.
WorldMaker 9y ago
The Firefox Dev Edition Dev Tools has a Storage tab which among other things lists cookies and right clicking Cookies has a Delete All menu item.
- ww520 9y ago
  I want an one-click button on the toolbar to clear the site cookies. Plus it's a small enough scope project to let me try out the WebExtensions development process.
conradfr 9y ago
I use Tab Session Manager as a replacement but it's clearly not the same. In fact all my extension replacements are inferior to their previous counterpart (not even considering having to edit an obscure CSS to customize the UI). I still have to restart the browser regularly but now I can't have a restart entry in the file menu. Tip: shift+F2, "restart". My strategy has been to duplicate everything in Chrome and use both, with pinned tabs running on Chrome, especially for Google apps. Another tip: For some reasons E10s wouldn't activate anymore with the update to FF57 (check it with about:support) and I had to create a new profile to make it work .

by ww520 9y ago

rodorgas 9y ago

Is there a use case of Session Manager that about:profiles doesn’t cover?

jameslk 9y ago
It creates automatic snapshots of your sessions. If your session gets wiped or corrupted, you can fall back to one of the previous sessions. Or if you just want to go back to the tabs you had opened at a certain point in time, that's possible too. All of this is important for those of us who keep lots of tabs open. I personally treat my open tabs more like chronologically organized bookmarks and usually have over a thousand open.

WorldMaker 9y ago

The Firefox Dev Edition Dev Tools has a Storage tab which among other things lists cookies and right clicking Cookies has a Delete All menu item.

ww520 9y ago
I want an one-click button on the toolbar to clear the site cookies. Plus it's a small enough scope project to let me try out the WebExtensions development process.

conradfr 9y ago

I use Tab Session Manager as a replacement but it's clearly not the same. In fact all my extension replacements are inferior to their previous counterpart (not even considering having to edit an obscure CSS to customize the UI). I still have to restart the browser regularly but now I can't have a restart entry in the file menu. Tip: shift+F2, "restart". My strategy has been to duplicate everything in Chrome and use both, with pinned tabs running on Chrome, especially for Google apps. Another tip: For some reasons E10s wouldn't activate anymore with the update to FF57 (check it with about:support) and I had to create a new profile to make it work .