On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 15:56 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 13/10/17 15:26, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> Sure, that's what everybody knows. But without going from generalities
> to details of a specific extension, we're just speculating idly.
So lets do a little review of the things I have installed in one of my
firefox instances that aren't currently firefox 57 compatible... This is
after I've dumped some rarely used things that I decided were unlikely
to get an update.
Cookie Monster
Seemed to have been removed from AMO and no obvious replacement.
I use(d) Self Destructing Cookies, but the page for that one says it's
not being rewritten as a webextension and will be abandoned:
https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/
"This add-on is no longer maintained. It is incompatible with Firefox
55+ and this will never change. Also, it will not be rewritten as a
WebExtension."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ seems
to be a new webextension along the same lines, I don't know how good /
safe it is or whether it does what you wanted from Cookie Monster.
NoSquint Plus
Last update yesterday but no mention of WE plans on AMO page
but Zoom Page WE is possible replacement.
I use this one too, it's useful for sites that don't play well with
hidpi, though those are becoming less common now. I imagine it may be
important for older / vision-impaired users, though.
Tab Groups
Author has stated (in a long rant) that he is not going to port
to WE and that in any case the APIs will probably always be too
limited for it to be possible.
As this was previously a Firefox feature and the excuse when removing
it was "don't worry, it'll be available as an extension" this seems
like a rather important one!
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