NFN Smith wrote:
Ant wrote:
On 3/6/2020 2:37 PM, Steve Dunn wrote:
There seems to be a fair bit of potential for extensions that
work in 2.49.x to break in 2.53.1, based on what people have been
posting here. I can't say I'm surprised, given that the developers
have to try to maintain compatibility with an obsolete extension
system while grafting in components from a browser that moved to a
modern extension system a few years ago, but since extensions are
important, it's kind of a problem if the stop working.
Is there a way to know for sure which of your favourite
extensions will work in 2.53.1, or is it a case of back up, hope for
the best, and be prepared to uninstall 2.53.1, reinstall 2.49.5, and
restore your backup?
You could share what extensions you have and we can tell you. Here's
mine:
Last updated: Fri Mar 06 2020 15:08:50 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:60.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.1
Extensions (enabled: 6)
* ColorfulTabs 31.1.9 (http://www.addongenie.com/colorfultabs)
* DOM Inspector 2.0.17.2 (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/)
* Expire history by days [converted] 1.2.0
* Open With 6.8.6 (https://github.com/darktrojan/openwith)
* PrefBar 7.1.1 (http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/)
* uBlock Origin 1.16.4.19
(https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy)
I have a virtual machine (Win 10 Pro) that's running a beta of 2.53.2,
and that has most of the extensions that I use frequently. I haven't
tested extensively, but as far as I'm aware, all of these work without
difficulty:
* Add-ons Manager - Version Number 1.5
* Cookies Exterminator 2.9.4
* Copy Plain text 2 1.6
* Display Mail User Agent 1.8.2
* Duplicate This Tab 1.3.1
* FlashGot 1.5.6.14
* Mail Redirect 0.10.7
* NoScript 5.1.9
* PrefBar 7.1.1
* Session Manager 0.8.1.13
* Slim Add-ons Manager 14.1
* UBlock Origin 1.16.4.11
* World IP 3.0.9.1
I also have the Classic Addons Archive installed, just in case. I agree
that it's preferable to get extensions from original developers
(especially stuff that's newer than what was hosted at
addoms.mozilla.org, or got dropped from there), but there's at least a
couple of things I have (and I don't remember which) that I've been able
to get from there.
If you haven't seen the Classic Addons Archive, it's a huge .XPI file
that you can install (with nearly everything in it), and allows you to
browse locally, in the same way you would at AMO.
As for PrefBar, it got removed from AMO before the archive was created,
and so you can't get that there. But as others have noted, it's still
available from the developer directly.
The only problem that I've had with newer versions of extensions has
been with Display Mail User Agent. I've been running 1.7.0 that in
Seamonkey 2.49.3, and recently updated to 1.8.2. After doing that, I had
problems in the mail client, especially with using the space bar as a
trigger for scrolling text in mail windows (but not web pages). When I
downgraded back to 1.7.0 and that problem went away.
I just checked my 2.53.2 installation (I haven't yet upgraded my main
machine from 2.49.5 yet), and with that running Display Mail User Agent
1.8.2, I am seeing the same issues with it disrupting scrolling with the
space bar.
Smith
Your version of uBlock Origin is out of date. The current legacy
version is 1.16.4.19. There is a new site just for the legacy versions now.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases
How do you manage to scroll with the spacebar? Why not use arrow keys?
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