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Recently I preventively migrated from Vivaldi, and Firefox lacked: Gestures, "search with" context menu, "add active tab" in a bookmarks bar folder, autorenami
by wruza 2y ago
Recently I preventively migrated from Vivaldi, and Firefox lacked:
Gestures, "search with" context menu, "add active tab" in a bookmarks bar folder, autorenaming downloads, custom keybindings, tab squeezing (it keeps them wide and shows scroll buttons), last tab standing, proper double-click-drag selection and text editing in general. Probably a dozen more things that I cannot remember now. Also "sync" just doesn't work, something went wrong, try again.
For gestures I used Gesturefy - isn't a mess and has "rocker". For "search with" I just had to write my own extension with hardcoded searches. I'm autorenaming through AHK - external tool, non-general use case. Tab squeezing and last tab solved through about:config.
"Add active tab", custom keys, text editing still unsolved.
In general I'm sort of satisfied with the results, but it took quite a while to migrate. Firefox is sort of extensible but not hacker-ish. Extension store is not generic-developer-hacker spirited either. FF is almost as dumb as Chrome, with a few settings that can make it better if you know where to look and have time for that.
- mcc1ane 2y ago"Foxy Gestures" for gestures. "Context Search Origin" for a context menu search.
- wruza 2y agoThanks!
- int_19h 2y agoTo be fair, Vivaldi is a pretty high bar given how much stuff they have in the browser itself (and the overall "super customizable kitchen sink" philosophy they carried over from Opera days that enables this).
- wruza 2y agoYeah I’m really happy I managed to migrate at all, ignoring these non-fatal losses. It was not the first time I tried. Sadly Vivaldi also slowly breaks things, although I guess I’ll remember my words at the next Firefox “refresh”.