Web Extension - Firefox 57+

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Web Extension - Firefox 57+

Opened this issue 7 years ago · 6 comments

Is there a chance of this add-on being made as a web extension?

I tried finding something similar for Chrome a while back and I kept reading that Chrome doesn't allow for add-ons to read clicks on tabs. I really hope Firefox doesn't go a similar route, or at least makes this an integrated feature.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1 · 2017-08-25T12:48:06.000Z

I've looked over the new APIs a few times since the announcement, but didn't see anything that'd let me know about tab clicks.

Answer 2 · 2017-09-02T17:36:10.000Z

Looks like there's currently no intent to allow listening to browser UI events via WebExtensions. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246706 .

Unfortunately this means this add-on will die starting in Firefox 57.

Answer 3 · 2017-09-02T19:07:01.000Z

Thank you for digging into it. I hoped this wasn't the case, but sort of expected it.
After seeing your post, I made an AutoHotkey script that has the same trigger and final result (double clicking a tab pins it). It's not quite as elegant as this add-on, but it does the job and at least this way Firefox can't mess with it anymore, seeing as it's an outside application.

Answer 4 · 2017-09-29T10:33:35.000Z

Hi,

any chance for update this perfect addon? *kiss - /web extension/-

Answer 5 · 2017-10-01T22:38:07.000Z

maybe it could be an icon in the url bar, it's possible.

Answer 6 · 2017-10-02T06:59:50.000Z

If that's possible, adding a hotkey option would make a good compromise. At least for me, that would be all I needed.
edit: Chrome has an add-on called Tab Pinner which adds a keyboard shortcut for pinning tabs, so in theory, this should work in FF as a web extension.