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Support for Firefox 57/Electrolysis/Quantum/QuantumDevEdition #792

Closed lweberk closed 7 years ago

lweberk commented 7 years ago
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Version compatibility

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Description:

Currently not supported. Mozilla is doing substantial changes to its Firefox extensions internals. As such there is much that would need to change for Vimperator to support this newer generations of Firefox.

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lweberk commented 7 years ago

Sorry about the botchered inital creation... wrong button.

laijasonk commented 7 years ago

There's been discussion on this in the past (rewrite parts of vimperator for WebExtensions, aka Firefox 57, aka Firefox Quantum), but many of the discussions have fizzled out. Whether work is still being done by the vimperator team in the background is unclear. That being said, there are alternatives that will be ready by the time Firefox 57 hits stable, but as most of us here knows... they are not nearly as powerful as vimperator/pentadactyl

https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705 https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/729

jvican commented 7 years ago

@lweberk This should be closed, it's a duplicate of #705

lweberk commented 7 years ago

Not quite sure about that. It spent north of 10min scourging any issue hinting to support of FF57/Quantum... if no title seems to point me as non-extension-developer to the correct and already existing issue (WebExtension was a new word for me), there is the possibility for this issue to be a pointer for someone else too.

Instead of closing, I am going to double down on that rationale.

lweberk commented 7 years ago

What is the earliest version of FF that introduces this quandry? WebExtensions was introduced in FF55, mandatory since FF57?

answer to that;

Mandatory since FF57 as stated by Electrolysis Addons-Schedule

SammysHP commented 7 years ago

Quantum is just a marketing name for the next release which drops support for old extensions and introduces some architectural changes (which speeds up everything a little bit). Closing because duplicate of #705.