Firefox 60+ support?

[Clark Wang]

Not sure if anyone's still here. Anyway --

I'm using Firefox 52 ESR and today it prompts me to update to 60 ESR. I got a test Win10 system and downloaded 60 ESR and found dactyl (downloaded from https://github.com/ffledgling/dactyl-build/releases ) is not compatible with it any more.

Does anyone has good luck?

-clark

[Arkadiusz Drabczyk]

On 2018-09-06, Clark Wang <dear...@gmail.com> wrote:
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No way, Firefox has now switched to WebExtensions and pentadactyl
won't work any more. Try https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl. And
see this https://github.com/5digits/dactyl/issues/99 discussion for
several alternatives such as Palemoon.

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Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arka...@drabczyk.org>

[Clark Wang]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arka...@drabczyk.org> wrote:

On 2018-09-06, Clark Wang <dear...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure if anyone's still here. Anyway --
>
> I'm using Firefox 52 ESR and today it prompts me to update to 60 ESR. I got
> a test Win10 system and downloaded 60 ESR and found dactyl (downloaded from
> https://github.com/ffledgling/dactyl-build/releases ) is not compatible
> with it any more.
>
> Does anyone has good luck?

No way, Firefox has now switched to WebExtensions and pentadactyl
won't work any more.

Sorry to hear that. I'll keep using Firefox 52 ESR for as long as I can.

[Troy Pracy]

Just use Waterfox. It's basically the same as Firefox, but with
support for XPCOM/XUL extensions and some annoyances removed.

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[Arkadiusz Drabczyk]

On 2018-09-09, Troy Pracy <tro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just use Waterfox. It's basically the same as Firefox, but with
> support for XPCOM/XUL extensions and some annoyances removed.

I'm afraid it's not a viable long-term solution. Waterfox, Palemoon
and other replacements will always lag behind Firefox and without
serious corporate backup and large user base they may stop working any
day.

I gave Tridactyl another try today and here are my impressions:

- letters are used instead of digits in hints. It seemed strange at
first but after a little while I liked it and got used to it

- one needs yy instead of single y to copy address to clipboard

- there is yet no status line on the bottom of the screen
https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/210. One has to press
yy to find out address of the current page

- C-[ doesn't work yet
https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/968

- there are several built-in search engines such as google or
wikipedia available after `open' but completion doesn't work so for
example one needs to press `o' to invoke `open' and then manually
type `wikipedia' followed by the search phrase

- google search suggestions are not shown

- C-w shortcut doesn't work yet and it's always intercepted by Firefox
and cannot be overwritten. There is some hope though
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303384

- one needs `set csp clobber' in order to able to use Tridactyl on
some pages, for example
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/osleg/e95cbe9219a84a1d73cb0bf9480ec70f/raw/3eb159d8846fab0ae53fbaddd7489f2d6e0088ab/userChrome.css

- it seems that Tridactyl cannot access Firefox history as completions
do not show up in `open' and `tabopen' commands

- I like the greenmat theme
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