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The same for me, but with the recent Firefox they broke the old addons and the current ones cannot do the same. I hope they fix that regression.

by chme 8y ago

Yoric 8y ago
WebExtensions (aka new generation addons) are getting more powerful with each version :)
- chme 8y ago
  Thanks for the info. :) Great work so far! High on my list is for the extensions to work on about:* and addons.mozilla.org pages. I like to use Vimium everywhere and 'Dark Background and Light Text' to also work on the preferences. Also I really miss DownThemAll... I tried a couple of replacements, but they didn't for instance download all books from a Humble Book Bundle.
  - piyush_soni 8y ago
    Oh really ... Not having DownThemAll just breaks my entire workflow, and there's no replacement. They should have at least considered the "most popular add-ons" to be in working condition before even releasing WebExtensions to all.
  - bovine3dom 8y ago
    > High on my list is for the extensions to work on [...] addons.mozilla.org pages. There's actually an about:config setting that fixes this already. I put a helper in Tridactyl for it called `:fixamo` [1], but you can easily do it manually by setting "privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager" = true and "extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains" = "" (Unfortunately, this does nothing about about: pages or the PDF viewer which used to work but was "fixed" :( ). [1] https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/8c49d26340cdc0db3c5a8011958339ac49051d03/src/excmds.ts#L290 https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/8c49d26340cdc0db3c...
    - chme 8y ago
      privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager does not exist in my about:config. Just changing "extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains" is apparently not enough. I also tried :fixamo in tridactyl, but it just returns: "# Error: Attempt to postMessage on disconnected port" I was using version 1.13.1pre1454 with FF 60.0.2.
      - bovine3dom 8y ago
        Have you tried adding the setting that doesn't exist manually? There's a little + button you can click on about:config. --- That's a particularly unhelpful error, sorry about that. It usually means that Tridactyl can't access the native messenger. Did you install it with `:installnative`? What is the output of `:native`?
        chme 8y ago
        > That's a particularly unhelpful error, sorry about that. It usually means that Tridactyl can't access the native messenger. Did you install it with `:installnative`? What is the output of `:native`? I did not, but now I have. :fixamo now doesn't return any error but still doesn't work. Adding "privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager" manually and setting it to true did the job. Thanks! So far I like Tridactyl, especially the useful commands, but since it seems to be incompatible with other addons that overwrite the NewTab page. I think I will have to disable it. I also miss the smooth scrolling experience with j,k from VimiumFF, jumping lines like Tridactyl does makes me loose the point were I left of. I might check back how the progress is going tough.
        bovine3dom 8y ago
        > :fixamo now doesn't return any error but still doesn't work. You need to restart the browser afterwards. Sorry, people usually find the command through the help page where it has all of these caveats. We have smooth scrolling, you just need to do `set smoothscroll true`. It's a bit rubbish, though. You can often fix the new tab page by disabling and re-enabling the new tab add-on you want. Every time Tridactyl is updated it will steal the page back, so I'd suggest that you don't use the beta releases and instead use the normal ones. We could reasonably easily provide a build that didn't use the new tab page (we occasionally get people who feel very strongly about this) but I'm afraid it's quite low down my list of priorities. If you're feeling up to it there's an issue open: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/issues/534 https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/issues/534 But I won't hold it against you if you use Vimium. It's very well polished : )
magicalbeans 8y ago
Breaking "old" add-ons with no working replacement and no way to implement quite a few of them killed FF for me. What those idiots at Mozilla don't get is that without the add-ons their stock browser is no better than any other.

The same for me, but with the recent Firefox they broke the old addons and the current ones cannot do the same. I hope they fix that regression.

by chme 8y ago

The same for me, but with the recent Firefox they broke the old addons and the current ones cannot do the same. I hope they fix that regression.

Yoric 8y ago

WebExtensions (aka new generation addons) are getting more powerful with each version :)

chme 8y ago
Thanks for the info. :) Great work so far! High on my list is for the extensions to work on about:* and addons.mozilla.org pages. I like to use Vimium everywhere and 'Dark Background and Light Text' to also work on the preferences. Also I really miss DownThemAll... I tried a couple of replacements, but they didn't for instance download all books from a Humble Book Bundle.
- piyush_soni 8y ago
  Oh really ... Not having DownThemAll just breaks my entire workflow, and there's no replacement. They should have at least considered the "most popular add-ons" to be in working condition before even releasing WebExtensions to all.
- bovine3dom 8y ago
  > High on my list is for the extensions to work on [...] addons.mozilla.org pages. There's actually an about:config setting that fixes this already. I put a helper in Tridactyl for it called `:fixamo` [1], but you can easily do it manually by setting "privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager" = true and "extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains" = "" (Unfortunately, this does nothing about about: pages or the PDF viewer which used to work but was "fixed" :( ). [1] https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/8c49d26340cdc0db3c5a8011958339ac49051d03/src/excmds.ts#L290 https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/8c49d26340cdc0db3c...
  - chme 8y ago
    privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager does not exist in my about:config. Just changing "extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains" is apparently not enough. I also tried :fixamo in tridactyl, but it just returns: "# Error: Attempt to postMessage on disconnected port" I was using version 1.13.1pre1454 with FF 60.0.2.
    - bovine3dom 8y ago
      Have you tried adding the setting that doesn't exist manually? There's a little + button you can click on about:config. --- That's a particularly unhelpful error, sorry about that. It usually means that Tridactyl can't access the native messenger. Did you install it with `:installnative`? What is the output of `:native`?
      - chme 8y ago
        > That's a particularly unhelpful error, sorry about that. It usually means that Tridactyl can't access the native messenger. Did you install it with `:installnative`? What is the output of `:native`? I did not, but now I have. :fixamo now doesn't return any error but still doesn't work. Adding "privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager" manually and setting it to true did the job. Thanks! So far I like Tridactyl, especially the useful commands, but since it seems to be incompatible with other addons that overwrite the NewTab page. I think I will have to disable it. I also miss the smooth scrolling experience with j,k from VimiumFF, jumping lines like Tridactyl does makes me loose the point were I left of. I might check back how the progress is going tough.
        bovine3dom 8y ago
        > :fixamo now doesn't return any error but still doesn't work. You need to restart the browser afterwards. Sorry, people usually find the command through the help page where it has all of these caveats. We have smooth scrolling, you just need to do `set smoothscroll true`. It's a bit rubbish, though. You can often fix the new tab page by disabling and re-enabling the new tab add-on you want. Every time Tridactyl is updated it will steal the page back, so I'd suggest that you don't use the beta releases and instead use the normal ones. We could reasonably easily provide a build that didn't use the new tab page (we occasionally get people who feel very strongly about this) but I'm afraid it's quite low down my list of priorities. If you're feeling up to it there's an issue open: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/issues/534 https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/issues/534 But I won't hold it against you if you use Vimium. It's very well polished : )

magicalbeans 8y ago

Breaking "old" add-ons with no working replacement and no way to implement quite a few of them killed FF for me. What those idiots at Mozilla don't get is that without the add-ons their stock browser is no better than any other.