plibither8/markdown-new-tab

Feature Request: Firefox Support

insanity54 opened this issue · 18 comments

insanity54 commented

I saw this project on Hacker News and it appealed to my interest. Unfortunately I use Firefox. It would be super cool to have a Firefox plugin that does this.

jorgeyp commented

This extension is already compatible with Firefox, I just tried loading it in Firefox Dev and seems to work fine 😄
@plibither8 I think you can just publish it as it is and it should work!

JohnKacz commented

Hmm then maybe a pull request to add installation instructions to the README?

I'm not seeing it in Mozilla's extensions store.

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jorgeyp commented

I just tested with the debugging options in Dev edition. To install it permanently it needs to get published.

plibither8 commented

@jorgeyp Sure, I too was thinking about it since its now gained quite some popularity. If and when I find time, I'll publish it to the Mozilla Extension Store. Till then, as suggested by @JohnKacz, if you could create a PR to add instructions for adding it temporarily (if that's a possibility, something like 'Developer Mode' in Google Chrome's extensions page) and enable it.

And till then, I've uploaded the site to https://mdnt.surge.sh. You could maybe make that the default page?

potch commented

@plibither8 howdy, I work with the add-ons team at Mozilla- we have a short porting article on MDN about the process of packaging a chrome extension for Firefox. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help get this on our extensions directory!

jorgeyp commented

@plibither8 I added the instructions to the README #7

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tonytamps commented

If you are going to publish it to the Mozilla Extension Store can I suggest some thought going into the Firefox Containers setup?

Some people like the start page data to be saved to each container. Other like it to be shared.

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plibither8 commented
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tonytamps commented

Happy to create PR, I'll have a play in dev mode this weekend.

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plibither8 commented

Hey @tonytamps! Just checking in, how's the work going about?

tonytamps commented

Got busy, still plan on having a run at it. No hurry, right?

plibither8 commented
tonytamps commented

Just to wrap this up, I've been looking at how to deal with containers inside addons and the end result is that you can't... yet.

Waiting on this issue before anything can be done:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475834

andmib commented

@plibither8 I've recently switched to Firefox and not having this extension be persistent in Firefox (dev workaround doesn't stay that way) is killer. Would also love to have sync, similar to the chrome extension. If there's anything I can do to help expedite (would be happy to donate a small amount), please let me know! Unfortunately I don't think I could help much on the coding front.

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tgrrr commented

I'm testing in Chrome (multiple profiles) and Firefox.

In the README.md, it says:

Upcoming
Sync notes, revision history and settings between all Chrome browsers you are logged into

Could you please sync it with Firefox as well

plibither8 commented
tgrrr commented
plibither8 commented

Hi everyone!

I have (finally, apologies for the super huge delay :| ) published MDNT for Firefox. You can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-new-tab/

NB: This also enabled the coveted sync feature - you can sync your notes between devices!

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