Can't find a way to add a Winger button to Firefox toolbar

[Alucquere]

I'm a clueless Firefox 125.0.1/64-bit user who just moved to a new computer.

Right I right click on a tab page, I get "send tab to one of these windows) context menu.

But I can't find a button that I can use to add to the toolbar menu, and I can't figure out any way to open Winger in a sidebar or in a regular browser tab.

The problem with trying to use the context menu to send the current tab to another window is that it's hard to tell, from the context menu alone, which menu is which.

I tried messing around with the extensions folders in the Firefox profiles folder, but I don't understand all of this well enough to use anything in the extensions folders to fix the problem.

Winger continues to work well on the old computer, so, I don't think this is about a problem with permissions.

Anyhow, if this is all the result of a user error, I'm terribly sorry.

[l10nelw]

Have you done anything to make the tab bar disappear? The Winger button might be on it.

Have you checked the Extensions button if Winger is listed in it?

[Alucquere]

• Most of my other extensions (example: FeedBro) show up.

• Your extension isn't there when I click the toolbar overflow icon.

• It does show up in the "Manage Your Extensions" list, but I think it disappears. But: I don't think this is because of a security policy, because the extension and the button are working fine on the old computer. (Sorry; not sure what version of Firefox that one has; will look at that tomorrow.)

This is such a great app. I hope this is a bug and not something unfixable on my end.

[l10nelw]

You didn't do any hack to hide the tab bar, like some vertical tab extension users do? I ask because I set Winger button to initially land in the tab bar upon installation, which I know is a bit unusual. (I should probably change that in case it causes this kind of grief.)

[Alucquere]

• I don't think I've done anything weird to the toolbars; I have them all showing as much as I can.

• The other computer has Firefox 124.0.2. Winger came off of that computer, too; maybe that's because of syncing, but maybe there is some new system security issue on my end.

• On the other hand: I have all sorts of extensions that seem to be working fine, so, it's strange that any security setting would affect just this extension and not my other extensions.

• In case this affects anything, I'm in the United States, using a computer with Windows 11 on it.

[l10nelw]

What happens when you press the shortcut to open the Winger popup panel (F1)?

Have you tried removing and re-adding Winger?

[Alucquere]

a. I've tried removing and re-adding Winger and haven't noticed that helping. I tried clicking F1 and think a shortcut conflict might have kept that from working.

b. I just tried changing the shortcut to Alt-W, and I got this:

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So, I see the windows list, but I don't believe that I get a way to name the windows or tell the windows apart. I can send a tab from one window to another. Sorry I didn't realize I could do this before.

[l10nelw]

Interesting that you ended up with this issue.

[Alucquere]

Thought: Say I use a shortcut to open the Winger window. The window doesn't have a name. Is there a shortcut I can then use to name the window? If I could just name the windows, then I'd have the functionality I need; I could live without a toolbar button.

[l10nelw]

Sorry, Winger window? You don't mean Winger's popup panel?

To name the current window you just open the panel, click on the top row (or press Up, Enter) to enter edit mode, then type a name and Enter. Does that not work?

[Alucquere]

The Pop-Up panel.  I’m reading from old to new. I did figureert a workaround. (Open a meaningful site in the first tab and always select that tab before changing windows.)

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Sorry, Winger window? You don't mean Winger's popup panel?

To name the current window you just open the panel, click on the top row to enter edit mode, then type a name and Enter. Does that not work?

It doesn't make sense to have a shortcut just for naming... You need an interface for inputting names, it might as well be the same panel.

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[Alucquere]

You know something, I think I can now actually name windows. I'm not sure if Firefox changed, you somehow pushed in a change or I just noticed that the top line in the little Winger box lets me name the windows, but I can name the windows!!! Life is good!!

[unbob]

I'm a new Winger user - just installed v2.6.2 on Firefox v125.0.1.

I'm not seeing a Winger button or Winger help button anywhere - where is it supposed to be?

Also, the Winger panel is truncated and incomplete and not being displayed correctly (see image below).

Is there a Winger "Getting Started" tutorial somewhere? Sure need it.

[Alucquere]

Here's what Lionel told me to do:

Please do the following:

• Open the panel and enter /debug (you won't see anything happen)
• Open a tab and go to @.***&type=extension
• Click on Console (next to Inspector)
• Enter await Winfo.getAll(['titleSansName'])
• Click on the arrow next to the "Array" output

You should see a list of Objects each with givenName and titleSansName, containing text you would expect from your windows. They should not be blank. Let me know what you see.

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When I did this, my Winger client started working. I don't know if that's because Lionel somehow pushed out an update; some bad tab on my computer closed; Firefox somehow fixed a problem in Firefox; something with my other extensions changed for the better; or some other mysterious thing happened that caused Winger to work fine. But, Winger now works fine.

[unbob]

Thanks for the reply. Winger seems to be mostly working for me now - though I haven't tried bring/send. Still no "Winger button" in sight anywhere - but guess not needed - instead just use keyboard shortcut to display Winger panel. Winger panel still truncated so full use of edit function is not possible. ??? "Send to WIndow" shows in tab context menu and that works A-OK.

And, where is the Winger help file?

[l10nelw]

@unbob You can enter /help in the popup panel field (Winger's omnibox).

I'm still not sure how the Winger button could go missing, but please try these:

• Click on the Extensions button (🧩) or the More/Overflow button (>>); each one opens a dropdown list of buttons. If you see the Winger button, right-click it -> Pin to Toolbar / Unpin from Overflow Menu.
• Right-click on the toolbar -> Customize Toolbar. If you see the Winger button, you can drag it elsewhere.

The popup panel appears truncated because the Winger button might be in a dropdown list of buttons somewhere.

[l10nelw]

v2.7.0 drops what I suspect might have contributed to the problem, but if this does solve it, it likely only solves it for fresh installations. Which means you can try it on a new profile, and then if all is well, you migrate and make it your new default profile.

Whatever this is, it's probably a Firefox bug; I don't have much control over this. I suggest requesting tech support at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org first, if you don't want to go through the above process yet.

[Alucquere]

For me it’s now working really well. I remember seeing somewhere that maybe a problem with a crashed tab messes up Winger. I have so many open tabs anything could be hiding in there. 

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On Saturday, May 11, 2024, 10:53 PM, Lionel Wong @.***> wrote:

v2.7.0 drops what I suspect might have contributed to the problem, but if this does solve it, it likely only solves it for fresh installations. Which means you can try it on a new profile, and then if all is well, you migrate and make it your new default profile.

Whatever this is, it's probably a Firefox bug; I don't have much control over this. I suggest requesting tech support at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org first, if you don't want to go through the above process yet.

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