brain trust: Firefox 7, 8, neither?
Nov. 21st, 2011 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioDear LJ brain trust,
Upgrading a browser is a dangerous thing because you never know what'll happen to your add-ons (or UI experience in general, really) until you get there, and rolling back isn't always smooth. In the past I've used my iBook to test-drive new versions of Firefox before committing on the machine where it really matters, but apparently OS 10.4 is no longer good enough for Firefox (and the iBook isn't good enough for newer operating systems, which I knew when I bought it).
I was hoping that I could just visit the pages at the Mozilla add-ons page for the add-ons I care about to find out the latest versions of Firefox on which they're supported. No dice. I can apply Google one at a time to look for evidence one way or the other -- for example, I found a Stylish user script to change something in the Firefox 8 UI, which suggests it works with Firefox 8 -- but is there a better way?
I know some of you are already using Firefox 7 or 8, so just in case there's overlap in our add-ons, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if you have direct knowledge (and for which versions of Firefox) for any of the following: AddBlock Plus, Flashblock, Ghostery, Greasemonkey (I assume, but...), HTTPS-Everywhere, Image Zoom, NoScript, Stylish. I use others, but these are the important ones.
Thanks.
PS: I'd also appreciate hints about major UI changes.
Upgrading a browser is a dangerous thing because you never know what'll happen to your add-ons (or UI experience in general, really) until you get there, and rolling back isn't always smooth. In the past I've used my iBook to test-drive new versions of Firefox before committing on the machine where it really matters, but apparently OS 10.4 is no longer good enough for Firefox (and the iBook isn't good enough for newer operating systems, which I knew when I bought it).
I was hoping that I could just visit the pages at the Mozilla add-ons page for the add-ons I care about to find out the latest versions of Firefox on which they're supported. No dice. I can apply Google one at a time to look for evidence one way or the other -- for example, I found a Stylish user script to change something in the Firefox 8 UI, which suggests it works with Firefox 8 -- but is there a better way?
I know some of you are already using Firefox 7 or 8, so just in case there's overlap in our add-ons, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if you have direct knowledge (and for which versions of Firefox) for any of the following: AddBlock Plus, Flashblock, Ghostery, Greasemonkey (I assume, but...), HTTPS-Everywhere, Image Zoom, NoScript, Stylish. I use others, but these are the important ones.
Thanks.
PS: I'd also appreciate hints about major UI changes.
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Date: 2011-11-21 11:59 pm (UTC)AdBlockPro, Flashblock, and GM work under FF 10. I don't use Image Zoom or Stylish; I think NoSquint might provide some of Image Zoom. No idea on NoScript.
I don't use Ghostery, but I use RequestPolicy, which has the same net effect in most cases. I did just install Ghostery and it seems to be happy.
While you can see what versions a plug-in claims to work in, it's often too restrictive. Sometimes you have to turn off version checking because the plugins say something like "Needs FF 3.6" instead of "Needs FF >3.6" but will work just fine in FF8.
Major UI changes: Status bar is gone--hover-over link destination is shown in an inset bar I dislike. You can turn back on the 'status bar' now repurposed as an "Add-on bar" so things like NoSquint and ABP have a place to live.
BTW, FF10 ('Aurora') can co-exist with a FF (x<10) setup, but not running at the same time. You install it, it does its install song-and-dance on startup, and then if you want to go back to FF3.6, you just run *it*, and it does its own "are my plugins compatible?" song and dance and you're back in business.
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Date: 2011-11-22 03:10 am (UTC)They got rid of the status bar? How...disconcerting, I'd guess. Presumably they did that with tablets in mind (every pixel counts), but that's going to take some getting used to. And yeah, there needs to be a place to dock those add-ons, so I'm glad there's something for that.
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Date: 2011-11-22 03:10 am (UTC)(Re the edit: it was a typo, now fixed.)
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