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Which are the addons you're missing? Do they have a GitHub site?

yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
I miss Tab Groups, FWIW. Why does it matter if they're on GitHub? Firefox no longer has the APIs for many of these extensions to be possible.
- WalterGR 9y ago
  Why does it matter if they're on GitHub? I'm not OP, but usually the conversation goes like this: Person 1: <describes problem with open source software> Person 2: It's open source. Have you submitted a patch yet?
  - the_grue 9y ago
    I don't have an example handy, but when FF 57 was first released, I actually took the effort to check what are the prospects of extensions I use in future FF versions. I found at least one extension which required a feature that FF developers refused to fix because it would expose APIs they didn't want to expose, end of story. So it's not just a matter of "scratching your own itch", a lot of it is politics.
    - WalterGR 9y ago
      So it's not just a matter of "scratching your own itch", a lot of it is politics. Absolutely. I don't personally believe that open source projects are above criticism - just explaining why the question was likely asked.
yborg 9y ago
Everybody has their thing, but Tile Tabs was a killer app for me, and had no real equivalent in any other browser platform. Bug 1318532 had a patch submitted which provided a WebExtensions-compatible API which would allow the original implementation to work, but this was spiked permanently because of :reasons: The developer, DW-dev has been gamely trying to provide similar functionality via implementing a browser-managed tiling window manager, but this seems doomed to failure since it is at the mercy of the display rendering on the target OS. For example, on MacOS, a massive shadow is rendered around an active window, which thus renders over the top of a neighboring tiled window. Doubt this one will get fixed ... unless Chrome implements it. Right now the objective seems to be full Chrome "compatibility" and Chrome doesn't have it.
the_grue 9y ago
After I gave up on Classic Theme Restorer, 4 most useful addons remain: EdgeWise, Session Manager, DownThemAll, Status-4-Evar.

I miss Tab Groups, FWIW. Why does it matter if they're on GitHub? Firefox no longer has the APIs for many of these extensions to be possible.

WalterGR 9y ago
Why does it matter if they're on GitHub? I'm not OP, but usually the conversation goes like this: Person 1: <describes problem with open source software> Person 2: It's open source. Have you submitted a patch yet?
- the_grue 9y ago
  I don't have an example handy, but when FF 57 was first released, I actually took the effort to check what are the prospects of extensions I use in future FF versions. I found at least one extension which required a feature that FF developers refused to fix because it would expose APIs they didn't want to expose, end of story. So it's not just a matter of "scratching your own itch", a lot of it is politics.
  - WalterGR 9y ago
    So it's not just a matter of "scratching your own itch", a lot of it is politics. Absolutely. I don't personally believe that open source projects are above criticism - just explaining why the question was likely asked.

yborg 9y ago

Everybody has their thing, but Tile Tabs was a killer app for me, and had no real equivalent in any other browser platform. Bug 1318532 had a patch submitted which provided a WebExtensions-compatible API which would allow the original implementation to work, but this was spiked permanently because of :reasons: The developer, DW-dev has been gamely trying to provide similar functionality via implementing a browser-managed tiling window manager, but this seems doomed to failure since it is at the mercy of the display rendering on the target OS. For example, on MacOS, a massive shadow is rendered around an active window, which thus renders over the top of a neighboring tiled window. Doubt this one will get fixed ... unless Chrome implements it. Right now the objective seems to be full Chrome "compatibility" and Chrome doesn't have it.

the_grue 9y ago

After I gave up on Classic Theme Restorer, 4 most useful addons remain: EdgeWise, Session Manager, DownThemAll, Status-4-Evar.