Gesturefy not working in new tab (blank page) in Firefox 108.0.1

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Navigate, operate, and browse faster with mouse gestures! A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gesturefy/

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Gesturefy not working in new tab (blank page) in Firefox 108.0.1 #663

Open scholzri opened 1 year ago

scholzri commented 1 year ago

My System:

Operating system: Windows 11 // Arch Linux
Firefox version: 108.0.1
Gesturefy version: 3.2.7

Steps to reproduce

Firefox 108.0.1
manually going to about:blank -> Gesturefy works
Set new tab to "blank page" under Preferences > Home
open a new tab and try to draw a gesture -> not working

Robbendebiene commented 1 year ago

about:blank and choosing "Blank page" in the settings doesn't open the same page any more (the latter opens about:newtab now): (left shows new tab page, right shows about:blank)

It seems like the Mozilla devs changed something there in order to fix another problem.

Related bugzilla ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1800995

There is nothing I can do about this. Best workaround so far is probably to load a very lightweight website as your new tab page.

scholzri commented 1 year ago

Hey, thank you for the response. I also found an old firefox add-on as another workaround: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/blank-new-tab/

Cheers

doodhout commented 1 year ago

@AdmerStroh for me this fixes the problem I have with new tabs inside existing windows, but it does not fix the inability to use gestures in new windows. Unfortunately I cannot remember if we ever had this functionality before Firefox introduced the regression.

gepruts commented 2 months ago

Came here to report the same, including a possible direction for a solution:

Mozilla blocked extensions from accessing "Mozilla pages", like extension store, their website and the blank page. Recently they started allowing extensions to be used on these pages again, if user permits. Not sure, but I think this requires some code in the extension too.

As an example, take a look at the Context Search extension: Manage Extension => Details tab:

Run on sites with restrictions Allow / Don’t Allow When allowed, the extension will have access to sites restricted by Mozilla. Allow only if you trust this extension.

https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/125.0.1/WINNT/en-US/quarantined-domains

Robbendebiene commented 2 months ago

@gepruts Unfortunately quarantined domains are something different, see: https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues/709 for more info.

gepruts commented 2 months ago

Too bad ... Thanks for the explanation!