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I use and forked SurfingKeys on Chrome https://github.com/hbt/Surfingkeys https://github.com/hbt/Surfingkeys Calling tridactyl a replacement for vimperator ign
by hbt 5y ago
I use and forked SurfingKeys on Chrome https://github.com/hbt/Surfingkeys https://github.com/hbt/Surfingkeys
Calling tridactyl a replacement for vimperator ignores all the features and extensive customization available through the old Firefox API.
I've used vimperator and pentadactyl and tridactyl doesn't even come close (because of the awful API limitations).
My point is: Firefox API is now a cheap version of Chrome API. Why would you develop extensions for Firefox instead of Chrome? As a power user, it makes no sense to support Firefox. It offers less than chrome.
They had firebug back when Chrome dev tools was crap, an amazing API for extensions and customization; they threw it all away for this mediocre crap chasing average users and are now playing the privacy / save the web card and guilt tripping people for not choosing them.
They can offer better APIs, they are not entitled to power users.
Power users write extensions, write tools for web developers, developers are the most importance resource. Who even bothers to test on Firefox now? For what, 7% market share?
All that money and support; just all gone. Complete waste.
Anyway, I sunk a lot of time into Firefox over the years and it was my browser of choice for years; I'm definitely still bitter about it. They literally abandoned power users. Fuck them.