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Originally Posted by Dazrin
I came home today to find that one of my kids updated Firefox to version 57. Which means a couple of the extensions i rely on no longer work. DOH!!!!
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I have about 40 extensions installed.
All of mine stop working in Firefox 57. Most are unlikely to get compatible replacements, because what they do simply can't be done using the WebExtensions API that is now mandated for extensions.
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Anyone know of a good replacement for Tab Mix Plus? Really the two things I want from it is "change tab by using the mouse wheel in the tab bar" and "reopen the last closed tab by middle clicking an empty spot in the tab bar".
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I don't know of a
bad one.
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What about Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar? It let me use a bookmarks bar that only showed the Favicons not the full title of the bookmark. Which meant I could have ~50 bookmarks visible without needing to scroll down a list anywhere.
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I don't use that one, and can't comment.
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There is something that works close enough to the "back to close" extension that I can get by without it.
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I use the following:
Application: Firefox 52.5.0 (20171107091003)
Operating System: WINNT (x86_64-msvc)
- 404 Bookmarks 1.4.2
- Add-ons Manager Context Menu 0.4.2.1-signed.1-signed
- Addons Manager Hilite 3.0
- Application Update Service Helper 2.0
- Beyond Australis 1.4.8
- Bookmarks Organizer 1.3.0
- checkCompatibility 1.3.1-signed.1-signed
- Classic Theme Restorer 1.7.3.1
- Compact Menu 2 4.3.1.1-signed.1-signed
- Dict 0.8.5
- Download Manager Tweak 1.0.12
- Error 404 Wayback Machine 1.2
- Extension List Dumper 2 1.0.2
- FindBar Tweak 2.1.12
- Flagfox 5.2.3
- History Submenus II 4.1.1
- Image Zoom (ugly fixes) 0.1.1
- image-resizer 1.7.1
- Imagus 0.9.8.57
- It's All Text! 1.9.3
- Location Bar Enhancer 5.3
- Multi-process staged rollout 1.10
- Neo Diggler 1.0.7
- OmniSidebar 1.6.15
- Open Google Contacts in a new tab 1.0.2
- Password Exporter 1.3.4
- Pocket 1.0.5
- Puzzle Bars 2.1.17
- Save File to 2.5.5
- Save Text Area 0.4.7.1-signed.1-signed
- Saved Password Editor 2.10.4
- Session Manager 0.8.1.13
- Speed Dial 0.9.6.18
- Stylish - Custom themes for any website 3.0.1
- Tab Memory Usage 0.2.7
- Tab Mix Plus 0.5.0.4
- Textarea Cache 0.9.3.4
- uBlock Origin 1.14.18
- Viewhance 2017.917.1405
- Web Compat 1.0
None of them work in FF57, including the one that produced the above list.
The only one that has a WebEx compatible version available is uBlock Origin.
Look
here for a list of most used extensions and their FF57 compatible replacements (if any.)
Look
here for a list of FF57 compatible extensions.
To give myself headroom, I backed off. I run
Firefox Extended Support Release, intended for organizations with many Firefox instances involved. It's based on FF 52.0.5. It will still get critical security fixes, but won't get the stuff that will disable current extensions for some time.
I have Firefox Developer Edition installed with a separate test profile using only WebEx extensions to check for progress.
Note that if you are already running FF 55 or beyond, you'll have to fiddle to revert to FF ESR. FF 55 introduced profile changes that would break stuff running in FF ESR. To revert to FF ESR, I had to download it, create a fresh profile, then recreate what I had before FF 56 broke things.
If you aren't running as many extensions as I am, it won't be as annoying to do it.
Stupid Profile Tricks
When you install FF, it creates a default profile for you. But you can have more than one, customized for different purposes, and control where they are placed.
First, DL and install Firefox ESR. Then edit the properties of desktop icon for it.
To create a new profile, run Firefox ESR as "firefox -p". The easiest way to do that is copy the Firefox desktop icon, give it a new name, and right click to get to Properties. In the Target: box, add -p to the end of teh invocation string. This will invoke the Profile Manager.
In the Profile Manager dialog box, select Create Profile, then click Next. Enter a descriptive name for the new profile, then click Choose Folder... In the next box, navigate to where you want the profile created. (I put it in a Profiles\Firefox directory under \Mozilla.)
Click done, and you can start using the clean new profile, and customize it as desired. To use the new profile, edit the Properties of the icon to make it invoke Firefox as "-p <profile name>"
(It's possible to run more than one instance of Firefox at a time, but they must be using different profiles.. To do so, copy the Firefox icon and rename it, then edit the properties to add "-no-remote -p <profile name>" for each profile you might wish to run simultaneously.)
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Dennis