Firefox 57 compatibility

[cru121]

This add-on currently shows as legacy in Firefox and got disabled. Any chance for an update? Any successor add-ons with similar functionality you could recommend?

[johntyree]

Hey. Well that sucks. :(

I stopped using Firefox when they killed support for vimperator and haven't spent much time looking at it. I think they switched to some new api that doesn't support a lot of addons' better features. It's sad. :(

If you want to do the legwork of figuring out why it's disabled and what needs to change, I can spend a little time trying to make work.

[dscorbett]

I wrote a WebExtension version of this add-on. It is slower than this one but I don’t know if the new APIs allow anything faster.

[johntyree]

Sweet. Thanks!

[johntyree]

Just out of curiousity, I tried my original add-on in a clean firefox install (57) and it worked great. I'm wondering what the issue is? @cru121 can you not just reenable it?

Of course you can also use the WebExtension version that @dscorbett made too.

[johntyree]

Scratch that, I have version 55.

Guess this is dead 💀

[johntyree]

@dscorbett I couldn't find yours on addons.mozilla.org. If you put it there, I'll update my readme to point to it.

Alternatively, we can replace mine with yours and I can change the author credits.

Or I'll rewrite someday

[dscorbett]

I haven’t put it on AMO yet: there are still some changes I’m thinking of making. When I publish it, I’ll comment here.

[dscorbett]

I have published the WebExtension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-link-as-text/.

[johntyree]

Tried it out. Works great! I'll update the description in my original addon to point to this one.

You should probably change the accelerator key from T to X or something, since T overlaps with "Open in new [T]ab."

[johntyree]

Old addon page is updated. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-as-text/

[dscorbett]

You should probably change the accelerator key from T to X or something, since T overlaps with "Open in new [T]ab."

It has no accelerator key: WebExtensions don’t support them. The extra T key comes from this XUL add-on.

[cru121]

Thanks all.

[johntyree]

@dscorbett which XUL addon?

[dscorbett]

Your add-on, the one in this repository.