vimperator-labs

Those are both on the list, but they are not "priorities". https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Future https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705#iss... "The WebExtension APIs offered by Firefox already contain many features that chrome lacks and I am working constructively with them to add the APIs we need to make something a lot like vimperator in Firefox."

> Well, I'm a Firefox user, not an extension developer, and Pentadactyl happened to be one of the extensions that made using Firefox bearable. Now that it's permanently broken, Pentadactyl was all-but-abandoned for years before Vimperator was broken. It's been almost four years since it saw a release - which was for Firefox 24.0-30[0]. Its website still links at least three links to code.google.com on the front page! (I'm actually shocked if Pentadactyl has even been working for you until now, given that it was supposed to break a few release cycles ago - when e10s shipped - but maybe you just haven't updated Firefox in a while, or you manually disabled e10s.) Vimperator - which is also incompatible with Firefox 55+ for the same reasons Pentadactyl is - at least has been receiving maintenance attention in the meantime[1], and also provide

I disagree, respectfully. I like that there's always more stuff to learn about Vimperator. It's fun. There's a nice thread on GitHub where people are talking about their favourite features: https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/729

This is probably a good place to plug the fact that Vimperator is going to die with FF57 [1]. If anyone wants to help with making an alternative, look through that thread. I'm particularly invested in Tridactyl [2] but other people are working on others. [1] https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705 [2] https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl

cVim AFAIK implement the command line mode by injecting the command UI iframe and key binding events to every webpage as a content script. It works, but still less than ideal than what VimFX is trying to do by binding the shortcut globally. There's also an ongoing discussion to try to port Vimperator to WebExtensions[1], which having everything as content script might be one way to do. However, it still doesn't give an ability to modify the UI as XUL/XPCOM Vimperator does. [1]: https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705

Warning to Vimperator users: some Vimperator features are currently broken in this release. See https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/568

I love Vimperator - unfortunately, it's incompatible with e10s (multiprocess Firefox) and it is also completely dependent on the deprecated XUL. Replacing that would essentially be a ground-up rewrite[0]. It looks like Vimperator is likely not going to be updated to work with newer versions of Firefox, which is a real shame, because it works far better than any alternative I've found for either Firefox or Chrome. I even made my own with the new Firefox API to see if I could replicate the experience, but it's tough[1]. The WebExtension interface doesn't give the same level of control that XUL did, and without which it's hard to give the same feel of Vimperator. [0] https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/211 [1] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/electrovim

Nope, vimperator doesn't work under e10s at the moment. See the tracking issue here: https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/211

Here is the Firefox bug report for Vimperator don't working with e10s: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100918 The Vimperator developers are working on it here: https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/211

Not only that, but I'm also concerned about the future of addons like Pentadactyl [0] and Vimperator [1] that use XUL. I know the user base of these addons is not anywhere as big as Thunderbird, but I can't really imagine using Firefox without Vimperator; and it's already started to break in Firefox 45. [0]: https://github.com/5digits/dactyl [1]: https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs

Well, the folks behind Vimperator sound optimistic at least. https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/264

> I just wonder if Elecrolysis will ever arrive. It seems like I've been waiting for it forever. It's here already, in Nightly: https://nightly.mozilla.org/ (more info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis). I haven't really had the problem you're talking about in Firefox as it is, but you can try it out and see if Nightly is any better. Keep in mind that Nightly is slower overall than Firefox, because it has a number of debugging flags enabled that impact performance. Obligatory disclaimer: Nightly has lots of bugs and quirks compared to Firefox, so it should not be considered indicative of the normal Firefox experience[0]. Also, many extensions have not yet been ported (which is why it's available in Nightly for developers before hitting Firefox). [0] That said, it's pretty damn stable. I'd be using it for my daily browsing except th