Changes in Firefox 57

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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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It's possible that there will be no real discussion about that as long as Firefox UI will be XUL based.
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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Aris wrote:@flaneurb
Jorge Villalobos mentioned he is not aware of any userChrome.css removal (at the moment?): https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/08 ... ent-224153
Benjamin Smedberg [:bsmedberg] wants it gone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332529#c14
So AMO team is at odds with devs or there was no real discussion within developer team yet whether or not userChrome will survive or get restricted or whatsoever. Prepare for the worst.

As long as userChrome.css stays (and works) we can do stuff like that in Fx57+:

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What exactly is different about your UI compared to Photon?
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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Grantius wrote:...

What exactly is different about your UI compared to Photon?
It was just an custom css code example of things you can not achieve with WebExtensions, but can with userChrome.css or with legacy add-os.

Install Firefox 57+ (portable) and see whats different.
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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Aris wrote:
Grantius wrote:...

What exactly is different about your UI compared to Photon?
It was just an custom css code example of things you can not achieve with WebExtensions, but can with userChrome.css or with legacy add-os.

Install Firefox 57+ (portable) and see whats different.
That's what I'm asking - what exactly am I looking at that is different?
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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Menu button on the left?
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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mightyglydd wrote:Menu button on the left?
@Eight days later finally got 55.0.2 update.


Really? Must be you and your extensions and stuff. Not for me.
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Huh, what in the wide world of sports do 'my extensions' have to to with Grantius's question about the image Aris posted. ](*,)
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mightyglydd wrote:Huh, what in the wide world of sports do 'my extensions' have to to with Grantius's question about the image Aris posted. ](*,)

Sorry, That was meant to be humorous. Everything has been so heavy lately.
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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It looks like WebRender is still nowhere near ready:
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... mment-1395
The (unsatisfying) answer would be “when it is ready”, and it’s hard to guess when that will be. This project is by far the biggest the graphics team has undertaken since I joined Mozilla (about 6 years ago), hard to foresee the amount of time we’ll spend dealing with unexpected issues and the long tail of platform/driver specific bugs.
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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Another addition to WebExtensions:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238314
Could anyone explain, please, what this bug is about? As far as I understand, it allows WebExtensions to know how the tab was opened: via middle-clicking a link, from the bookmarks sidebar, url bar, etc.
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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Could it be some helper for extensions such as TabMixPlus?
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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14750451

I've decided that I'm not the best suited to writing the FAQ for 57, partly through lack of interest, but mainly because with not actually using Firefox then I'm not, lately, familiar with all the subtle nuances of all this, as is needed for this.

So, over to you guys - jointly or singly just knock something into shape for November and let the mods know and they'll do a Locked Sticky on it.

Just make sure it's 100% neutral in tone and totally accurate and it'll be fine. :)

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Re: Changes to Extensions in Firefox 57

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Frank Lion wrote:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14750451

I've decided that I'm not the best suited to writing the FAQ for 57, partly through lack of interest, but mainly because with not actually using Firefox then I'm not, lately, familiar with all the subtle nuances of all this, as is needed for this.

So, over to you guys - jointly or singly just knock something into shape for November and let the mods know and they'll do a Locked Sticky on it.

Just make sure it's 100% neutral in tone and totally accurate and it'll be fine. :)

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something i wont be doing as im not 100% sure i'll stick to firefox.
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