Favorite WebExtensions?

sdevaney · October 26, 2017, 4:09pm

Thanks for flagging this. Since a spreadsheet feeds that “finder” page it’s entirely possible it lists some extensions that were legacy that have since become WebExtensions. I can review the entire list but if you know of any specific cases please feel free to let me know. Thanks again!

sdevaney · October 26, 2017, 5:01pm

Good suggestion. I’ve amended to make Group Speed Dial the replacement rec.

dessant · October 26, 2017, 6:18pm

Could you also add Search by Image to the extension finder for reverse image searches?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/

sdevaney · October 26, 2017, 6:29pm

Is it in some way superior to the reverse image search replacement recs we already have in place, such as Reverse Image Search?

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/capture-reverse-image-search/

dessant · October 26, 2017, 6:37pm

Yes, it parses the DOM when the user initiates a search, and also finds images declared in CSS. None of the currently listed alternatives will detect a background image for example. The capturing extension is also nice, but searching with the original image will give better results unless you’re only interested in a detail of the source image.

grahamperrin · October 26, 2017, 8:19pm

Two minutes of pure horror! I should have paid careful attention to the phrase before blindly changing the boolean from true to false.

I’m immensely grateful that Firefox responded gracefully to the change back, to true. So @yfdyh000 I’m grateful for the learning curve

lidel · October 26, 2017, 10:53pm

Hello,
It may be bit niche, but I would like to suggest my Google Music Hotkeys:

as a replacement for these legacy add-ons:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-music-control/?src=search
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-music-hotkeys/?src=search
Today’s v1.2.0 can also replace this as well:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-music-play-button/?src=search

Hope it helps someone

grahamperrin · October 27, 2017, 6:15am

Users of Tab Groups, which is not for vertical tabs, might be confused and/or misled by the multiple recommendations to replace it with Tab Center Redux, which is for vertical tabs and (if I recall correctly) not for grouping:

More appropriate replacements might be:

Please be prepared to include any/all of them in due course. Firefox 57 will probably be too soon to recommend any one. (I guess that the finder should exclude extensions that are experimental – true?)

nodetics · October 27, 2017, 2:21pm

Brief, Sage, Sage++ and Bamboo RSS readers can be replaced with

Feedbro Reader: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/

sdevaney · October 27, 2017, 4:14pm

Thanks @grahamperrin! But yea, to this point I’ve not included any recommendations marked as experimental, so that would preclude Conex. Simplified Tab Groups is almost an ideal replacement, but it currently has compatibility issues so that makes me a bit uneasy to add as a recommended replacement.

seg.fault · October 27, 2017, 4:24pm

I find very useful the following addons for which I have not found a replacement:

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/tabletools2/

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/xclear/

Thanks

grahamperrin · November 1, 2017, 2:17am

let’s not be shy about this: the required WebExtensions API is not available.

Groups of tabs (multiple groups in any window)

Does anyone see a significant resemblance between Tab Groups and Tab Center Redux? The clue’s in the name – groups – and from the add-on page:

… Groups are incredibly easy to use! … switch between your groups …

… groups management … drag tabs across groups or out of their current group to create a new one. … only the tabs in the chosen group will be visible. …

… name groups, resize them and rearrange them visually however you like. Create groups …

Not one mention of the word group at the Tab Center Redux page.

~~Similarly: nothing group-related at the page for~~ … sorry, I began comparing the three other recommendations then realised, results for Tab Groups are very fuzzy.

Later I stumbled across this:

Reality check:

if the finder will recommend things that are entirely irrelevant
then people might learn to treat it as a waste of time

– and consider the possibility that negativity from the finder will have a knock-on effect on perceptions of the much broader changes to AMO.

Simply:

if tabs is the keyword, then the tabs catgory https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/tabs/ should be a place to go (sadly polluted by things such as ~~this~~ and ~~this~~, which seem entirely irrelevant – like, you might use a tab to view a page when you use the extension, but that’s no reason to waste space by abusing the category – OT, that’s an issue for … 2018, maybe).

Please, folks, let’s make the new finder a tool of real value. Thanks!

Postscript

I experimented with https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?tag=firefox57&tag=tabs but the combination of tags did not have the desired effect. Related:

laedit · October 28, 2017, 9:23am

New tab - Moment is a replacement for Moment.

Full disclosure, I am the developer of New tab - Moment, since Moment was abandoned for 4 years.

grahamperrin · October 30, 2017, 5:55pm

In Framasphere, Jason Robinson draws attention to:

Smart HTTPS (revived) by ilGur

– comparable to EFF Technologists HTTPS Everywhere.

EFF Technologists state:

… This extension will be ready for Firefox 57+ compatibility. …

– so it may be respectful to not make an entry in Extension Finder at this time; do not detract from the work of the developers of the original.

sdevaney · October 30, 2017, 6:58pm

To search exclusively for modernized tabs content, try this link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?tag=firefox57&atype=1&cat=93&page=

We’ve also been pointing folks to this curated collection of modernized tabs content:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/collections/mozilla/tab-organizers/

grahamperrin · October 30, 2017, 9:50pm

Thanks,

Information overload – thirty pages. Related to that type of search result, from a few months ago, with added emphasis:

That’s much smarter however, at least two listings seem irrelevant to organisation.

grahamperrin · October 31, 2017, 4:02am

Greasemonkey

Alpha testing, in Mozilla’s beta channel, began 2017-10-12.

I see developer attention to WebExtensions-related issues. Thorough feedback, now, from end users might allow the developers to cease classifying Greasemonkey for Firefox 57 as experimental before the release date.

For what it’s worth: no problem with the one script that I use (for MacRumors Spy).

nova6k0 · October 31, 2017, 11:16am

Really. HTTPS Everywhere is already WebExtensions in its Development Versions.

Greetings.

grahamperrin · October 31, 2017, 11:21am

Thanks @nova6k0, https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/https-everywhere/reviews/939609/ refers to https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-test/index.html – is that the proper unstable channel?

freaktechnik · October 31, 2017, 11:26am

It seems they just released a WebExtension version yesterday on the main channel: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/versions/?page=1#version-2017.10.30