Extensions in Firefox 59 • Hacker News Board

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by brokenmachine » Tue, Jan 30, 2018, 5:18 AM UTC

RussianCow wrote: post #97

paul7986 wrote: post #45

Does this mean tabmix plus is now once again compatible? An add on I used for ten years.

There are still tons of APIs missing from WebExtensions that are required for many features of Tab Mix Plus. For instance, there is no way to get click events of any kind on tabs, so things like "reload tab on double-click" are not possible. You also can't control things like whether a new "window" opens in a tab or an actual window (to implement TMP's "open popups in tabs" feature), where tabs open (to have new tabs…

So I'll remain stuck on Firefox 56 for two years...

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by RussianCow » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

brokenmachine wrote: post #241

RussianCow wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are still tons of APIs missing from WebExtensions that are required for many features of Tab Mix Plus. For instance, there is no way to get click events of any kind on tabs, so things like "reload tab on double-click" are not possible. You also can't control things like whether a new "window" opens in a tab or an actual window (to implement TMP's "open popups in tabs" feature), where tabs open (to have new tabs…

So I'll remain stuck on Firefox 56 for two years...

You probably don't want to keep using a version of Firefox that isn't going to get security updates... If keeping Tab Mix Plus is that important to you, try Waterfox[0] instead. It's a fork of Firefox 56 with security patches backported and a few small changes.

Personally, I've installed add-ons for the bits of functionality that are possible with WebExtensions, and otherwise learned to deal with it. The performance and stability improvements are worth it.

[0]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by brokenmachine » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:56 PM UTC

RussianCow wrote: post #242

brokenmachine wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I'll remain stuck on Firefox 56 for two years...

You probably don't want to keep using a version of Firefox that isn't going to get security updates... If keeping Tab Mix Plus is that important to you, try Waterfox[0] instead. It's a fork of Firefox 56 with security patches backported and a few small changes. Personally, I've installed add-ons for the bits of functionality that are possible with WebExtensions, and otherwise learned to deal with it. The performance…

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Tab Mix Plus is pretty much essential for me. I have over 900 tabs at the moment, and all other tab extensions I've tried have been very ordinary in comparison.