Compatilibity: LocationBar² and Restartless Restart

[JustOff]

Did PM drop support for these extensions or vice-versa?

The developers of add-ons are responsible for support browsers, not vice versa.

Are there other extensions with PM support that do the same thing as the ones I've used for years? If not, could they be forked or something similar?

I use Restart, probably someone else will suggest the alternative for Locationbar².

[JustOff]

LocationBar² is supposed to break the URL in the location bar up into sections.

Advanced Locationbar 1.0.3 works for me when installed via Moon Tester Tool. However I've not tested all features, only the basic.

[coffeebreak]

Restartless Restart should add a Restart menu to the File menu.

I use a fork of Restartless Restart, it does add the menu entry. Haven't had any problems with it, am using v9.1.2.

https://github.com/vanowm/restartless-restart-ffext

[steviem1]

@coffeebreak thanks for the link to the fork, it works fine for me, including the the file menu entry. Restartless restart is a useful add on I've used for some time and was kind of upset when it failed to work in the latest PM update.

[coffeebreak]

@steviem1, You're very welcome. :)

@Will Pittenger,
You need to save the xpi locally and install by dragging it to the Addons Manager (about:addons). Worked fine for me just now.

- Click open the link to 9.1.2 that you see on the account's main page.
- Once there, you'll see two choices of download link, either one works fine:
- Option 1) the button Lower R, labeled 'Download', or Option 2) the link Lower Center ('View Raw').
They both allow to download/save the xpi.

[DMcCunney]

I have PM 27.1.1 with LocationBar² 1.0.6.1-signed.1-signed and Restartless Restart 9.1-signed.1-signed. LocationBar² is supposed to break the URL in the location bar up into sections. That UI is missing. (It's preferences dialog does work.)

I use Location Bar Enhancer from Girish Sharma for that, and it seems to work. You need to enable the bread crumb trail in it after installation. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -enhancer/

(I'm playing with Pale Moon as an insurance policy, as a lot of what I run is likely to stop working come November when Mozilla requires addons to all be based on WebExtensions. I think about half of what extensions I use simply can't be done in WebExtensions, so...)

I'm testing Pale Moon on a clone of my Firefox profile, and most things work. Mozilla Addons will say a lot of it is incompatible, but if you tell it to install anyway, it's likely to run. I think I've had to drop about seven extensions, but several of those were work arounds for incompatibilities introduced by Australis.

Thus far, things look promising.
______
Dennis

[GHSRobert]

Interesting. For me with 27.0.3 on Mac, LocationBar² is working while Advanced Locationbar is not.

And I use Restart which is working fine.

[Greywool]

LocationBar² 1.0.6.1-signed.1-signed

I found Locationbar³ to be a good enough replacement. Though it does miss some features of ².

I use a fork of Restartless Restart, it does add the menu entry. Haven't had any problems with it, am using v9.1.2.

https://github.com/vanowm/restartless-restart-ffext

I tried to install 9.1.1 and 9.1.2. GitHub serves them up as plain files so PM doesn't see an extension. I copied the URLs to the File/Open dialog (which should work on Windows) but PM says the files are corrupt.

I downloaded 9.1.2 from the github link, then drag'n'dropped it onto PM (x64, 27.1.2), working fine

[JustOff]

Though it does miss some features of ².

Actually the fix is simple:

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--- chrome\content\urlbar.xml.old	Sun Feb 06 13:36:12 2011
+++ chrome\content\urlbar.xml	Tue Feb 28 15:18:05 2017
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@
           this.overflowEllipsis.value = "\u2026";
         }
 
-        let (self = this) {
+        {
+          let self = this;
           this.inputBoxInner.focus = function () {
             self.inputField.focus();
           };
@@ -370,6 +371,11 @@
         <parameter name="object"/>
         <parameter name="crop"/>
         <body><![CDATA[
+            var tooltipText = callback.apply(object);
+            if (tooltipText) {
+              this.inputField.setAttribute("tooltiptext", tooltipText);
+            }
+/*
           if (this._tooltipTimer)
             clearTimeout(this._tooltipTimer);
           this._tooltipTimer = setTimeout (function (self) {
@@ -383,6 +389,7 @@
               self.urlTooltip.showPopup(self, bO.screenX, bO.screenY + bO.height, "tooltip");
             }
           }, 400, this);
+*/
         ]]></body>
       </method>

Btw, could someone tell me is there any practical point in this add-on, except from visual effect?

[Greywool]

I noticed that I use it more than I thought I did when I lost it. For example, on this forum, I can just click on the "forum.palemoon.org" part of the url to go back to the index, without needing to scroll back to top or bottom for links.