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That page is just missing one critical thing: 4. Migrate my extensions. It would be great if they developed a graph mapping Chrome extensions to Mozilla equiva

That page is just missing one critical thing: 4. Migrate my extensions. It would be great if they developed a graph mapping Chrome extensions to Mozilla equivalents. Then the user could confirm installation of the ones with 1:1 parity, like LastPass, allow users to select similar extensions, or skip installing an equivalent. There are some Chrome-Exclusive extensions that keep me hooked. That and Firefox’s Storage inspector is terrible, there isn’t a native way to clear localstorage during development.

everetm 7y ago
To be honest all 11 of the extensions I used day on chrome are available and working on Firefox in 2019 compared to a few years back.
CWuestefeld 7y ago
My difficulty is in the other direction. In FF I really rely on TreeStyleTab, and there's no decent alternative in Chrome.
house9-2 7y ago
Have you checked out Brave browser? Fork of Chrome and most if not all Google extensions work. https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/
- simias 7y ago
  Once again, switching to a fork of Chrome doesn't really help anything, unless you believe that the Brave devs have the will and manpower to actually maintain a hard form of Chromium that would re-enable and maintain features disabled upstream in the long term. It's like ditching Facebook for Instagram.
- sound1 7y ago
  Last time I checked Brave looked awful on 4k screen on linux Kde, may be 6 months back. Have they fixed it? I wanted to like it so much but no luck :-(
  - house9-2 7y ago
    Seems fine on my imac retina screen and retina mbp.
tech234a 7y ago
Have you looked into Chrome Store Foxified? It automates the conversion, signing, and installation of extensions from the Chrome Web Store into Firefox. https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified (It wasn’t working for a while but it seems that a fix might have finally been discovered.)
depressedpanda 7y ago
> That and Firefox’s Storage inspector is terrible, there isn’t a native way to clear localstorage during development. While I agree that the inspector could be improved, this is false. Dev tools > Storage tab > Expand local storage > Select domain > Right click a key/value > Select "Delete all". Done.
- reilly3000 7y ago
  Thanks for clarifying that- you are correct. That doesn't seem to work on cache domains, but if I scroll down to other types of storage I can indeed delete items all at once or individually. When I tried that now it wasn't repainting so it appeared to have no effect, but when I refreshed within the Storage inspector the data was gone. When I refresh the page, repainting after deleting started working as expected. Weird.

everetm 7y ago

To be honest all 11 of the extensions I used day on chrome are available and working on Firefox in 2019 compared to a few years back.

CWuestefeld 7y ago

My difficulty is in the other direction. In FF I really rely on TreeStyleTab, and there's no decent alternative in Chrome.

house9-2 7y ago

Have you checked out Brave browser? Fork of Chrome and most if not all Google extensions work. https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/

simias 7y ago
Once again, switching to a fork of Chrome doesn't really help anything, unless you believe that the Brave devs have the will and manpower to actually maintain a hard form of Chromium that would re-enable and maintain features disabled upstream in the long term. It's like ditching Facebook for Instagram.
sound1 7y ago
Last time I checked Brave looked awful on 4k screen on linux Kde, may be 6 months back. Have they fixed it? I wanted to like it so much but no luck :-(
- house9-2 7y ago
  Seems fine on my imac retina screen and retina mbp.

tech234a 7y ago

Have you looked into Chrome Store Foxified? It automates the conversion, signing, and installation of extensions from the Chrome Web Store into Firefox. https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified (It wasn’t working for a while but it seems that a fix might have finally been discovered.)

depressedpanda 7y ago

> That and Firefox’s Storage inspector is terrible, there isn’t a native way to clear localstorage during development. While I agree that the inspector could be improved, this is false. Dev tools > Storage tab > Expand local storage > Select domain > Right click a key/value > Select "Delete all". Done.

reilly3000 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying that- you are correct. That doesn't seem to work on cache domains, but if I scroll down to other types of storage I can indeed delete items all at once or individually. When I tried that now it wasn't repainting so it appeared to have no effect, but when I refreshed within the Storage inspector the data was gone. When I refresh the page, repainting after deleting started working as expected. Weird.