On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Danny YUE <sheepd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2017-09-08 00:48, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Danny YUE <sheepd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until >>> today I found its new version really sucks. >>> >>> Then I read the comment from author who declared that the old version >>> can *only* be used before (roughly) end of 2017 before Firefox 57 and in >>> new version some features must perish. >>> >> >> I am assuming that most actively developed addons will be updated before 57 >> drops, so the transition wont be too painful. Is the issue you're having >> with FoxyProxy related to it relying on features that are no longer >> available under the new framework? > > Yes. The FoxyProxy author declared that some features are no long > available under the new framework. > I am really depressed about it because I just use that plugin every time > I use Firefox. > > >> This update will break my favorite extension, Vimperator. I am already >> looking at replacements for Firefox due to this. So far I have found >> qutebrowser which isn't really as featureful. >> >> R0b0t1. > > I am using Keysnail, no idea whether or not it will be deprecated. > > If the features I want are blocked by the new framework, I'm afraid I > would lock the version (fortunately it's Gentoo) for a long time, until > I find replacement for plugins, or even Firefox... >
I saw some people talking about creating a non-Mozilla LTS Firefox version. I'm not sure how well that will work but I wish them luck. In the case of Vimperator, it looks like a lot of the breaking changes revolve around what you can and can't do to the UI. I run Vimperator with 'gui="none,tabs"' which is something worth looking up if you haven't seen it. Keysnail looks nice but it seems like it doesn't modify the GUI. There's a few Vim inspired addons for Firefox, but none of them are as comprehensive as Vimperator. There's a lot of Vim mimicry that I'm not even aware of in the addon, it's extremely comprehensive. Thanks for the suggestion, R0b0t1.