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.

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