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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
IainB:
"Your Arizona cave shot was pretty cool as well!"
-dantheman (April 19, 2017, 07:33 PM)
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Well, with someone whose avatar was a caveman, one would expect them to say that...
MilesAhead:
"Your Arizona cave shot was pretty cool as well!"
-dantheman (April 19, 2017, 07:33 PM)
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Well, with someone whose avatar was a caveman, one would expect them to say that...
-IainB (April 20, 2017, 02:35 PM)
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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
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Curt:
Form fillers will not be what they used to be
1) Form History Control end-of-life?
Saturday, February 4, 2017 | 16:55
As much as I like to further develop the FHC add-on, the upcoming changes by Mozilla make it very difficult, if not impossible, to keep this add-on compatible with future versions of Firefox.
The changes needed to make FHC multiprocess (aka Electrolysis or e10s) compatible are surely possible and probably not very hard to do (although it does probably take many, many hours of work to implement), but the changes needed to make it WebExtensions compatible and maintain it's current features are almost certainly impossible.
The API's supported by WebExtensions do not include an API for accessing the formhistory which is the base for one of the core features of this add-on.
Furthermore this add-on relies heavily on XUL for the GUI and that is also gone under WebExtensions, so the complete GUI and all its interactions have to be rewritten from scratch.
According to the timeline of mozilla, it looks like WebExtensions are becoming the standard for add-on development in Firefox and will be the only type of add-on supported in Firefox by the end of 2017. (see wiki.mozilla.org and blog.mozilla.org)
All things considered I have to conclude that this Form History Control add-on has come end-of-life.
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2) Form History Control II
Monday, March 20, 2017 | 12:59
I am happy to announce that work on porting this extension to e10s and web-extensions has started.
Not all functionality from the current version can be ported due to limitations imposed by the new API.
Due to he lack of a decent FileIO-API importing and exporting history will be impossible. The new API is also missing services to interact with the browsers internal Formhistory storage, so the new add-on must gather and maintain its own copy.
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-Stephan Mahieu, formhistory.blogspot
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Curt:
a lot more addons were ruined by the last Firefox update. I have removed it and moved to "ESR" (Firefox Extended Support Release ESR):
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.3.0/releasenotes/
This way one can keep all the extensions and still have a browser accepted/made by Mozilla.
Deozaan:
This way one can keep all the extensions and still have a browser accepted/made by Mozilla.-Curt (August 28, 2017, 08:11 AM)
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For now... :(
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