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iggldiggl·Dec 10, 2021

They didn't just broke them by necessity of rewriting the browser, though – they then actively blocked them on regular browser versions (non-Nightly/Developer Edition/etc.). Case in point: With some limited maintenance and a compatibility shim for loading them, a number of old add-ons are still working on current Firefox versions: https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master...

In Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

MrAlex94·Oct 10, 2021

If you're interested, DownThemAll has been ported to support newer Gecko versions: https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master... Waterfox G3+ supports installing bootstrapped/XPCOM extensions :-)

In Waterfox Browser

iggldiggl·May 10, 2021

For things you use regularly enough I agree, but history eventually expires. Also the default history UI is rubbish about surfacing connections between pages – when searching history, you can't get the browser to take you from the search result back to that actual point in your browsing history that search result is coming from, then then browser only shows you the last visit of each URL anyway even though internally it stores older visits, too, and it doesn't allow you to see connections between pages (I opened that link from this page etc.). So if you know the right keywords to directly find a page again it's fine, but if you only know that before (or after) visiting that page you visited a different page, and you can only find that different page in your history you're sort of stuck. As usual, the best extension for dealing with that p

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roblem in Firefox (Norwell History Tools) was nuked by the 57 update, and last time I checked none of the possible webextension replacements included all functionality of the original add-on – although it seems that there is some hacky way of running the original add-on even in a current Firefox, if you dare (https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/)

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