I'm stux. I am attempting to take over maintenance of the Tab Utilities add-on and have submitted a version with some of the FF23 fixes from this forum for preliminary review. I hope to, at the very least, maintain current functionality in future releases of firefox.
The new version, called Tab Utilities Phoenix, can be found here:
A few things about myself and this release:
- I am a regular tab utilities user and as such, I am strongly motivated to see this add-on remain under active development.
- I am new to firefox extension development. Please bear with me as I learn the intricacies of add-on development.
- I also have a full-time job that is my primary focus. I will only be able to respond to the most pressing of matters as time allows.
- This is a preliminary release using fixes from blackwind and "soin at windpr dot tw". I tried to keep only the changes necessary to keep the add-on working as it has in the past. I also fixed some minor bugs. As of today (2013-08-24), the add-on is still awaiting review.
- As stated above, my primary goal is to maintain existing functionality. However, I do plan to refactor the code to gain a better understanding of its inner workings and hopefully fix some bugs in behavior.
- This is a Preliminary release. Once I've set up a test plan and become more comfortable the code I will submit it for Full release. I hope to be able to do that by the time FF25 or 26 are released.
- FF17-20 are not supported. For the time being anyway. The fixes break backwards compatibility. Since existing solutions (1.5.1 and 1.6pre3) work fine, I have deemed backwards compatibility to be a lower priority.
- I have not set up testing for the alpha channel and do not have plans to do so in the immediate future.
- Chinese support will be minimal. I am keeping the existing chinese translations but since I do not speak chinese (nor do I have a human translator handy), any new text will be written in english for the time being. Update: I was pointed to a service called babelzilla and along with the existing TU Locales translations, I plan to provide more comprehensive language support in the future.
- I will not be supporting Tab Utilities Lite in the immediate future. I only plan on maintaining a single code base. If a "Lite mode" is technically feasible I will work towards that end, but please be aware that this is a lower priority item. Please use the full version of the add-on for the time being.
I have only done cursory testing on FF23 and 24 beta 7. At the very least preview and grouping work, as well as the options window and some basic tab menu items. I will have a better idea of what features do work once I develop a comprehensive test plan.
Please provide contructive feedback regarding compatibility with newer version of firefox.
Thank you very much,
-stux
