New Tobin Paradigm wrote:Remember that it is the job of an extension to be compatible with the application not the other way around.
Also,
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19727 wrote:It is the position of the Pale Moon Project that unless the extension directly supports and targets Pale Moon, all Firefox extensions are considered to be unsupported and at the user's own risk. We will no longer impose any restriction upon them, nor any further effort be made to cater to them. What you see is what you get, and your mileage may vary. If a Firefox-targeting extension does not work or work fully on Pale Moon 28, it will have to be the extension that has to change to remedy that.
Understood, and I completely agree with the policy here for the reasons stated.
That being said, I would like to make a suggestion. According to the release notes for 28.1.0, the per-tab behavior of the find bar can be restored by setting
findbar.termPerTab to
true. However, this does not restore all of the previous behavior of the per-tab find bar. I think that if this option is going to be present, it might as well be as useful as possible. Can this option simply make the find bar work the way it did in PM 28.0.1?
I understand the problem of styling with lightweight themes not applying to the find bar in such a situation, so I would suggest just skipping that. I actually like the find bar without the theme - it makes the it stand out more. The previous find bar also had a very valuable quality that it shared with FindBar Tweak that has not been mentioned so far. For users of
Tile Tabs (such as myself), both FBT and the previous find bar showed the bar only at the bottom of the current tile, which I think is ideal. The current find bar just displays a toolbar across the entire bottom of the screen, which makes it more difficult to use if you're using anything other than the bottom left tile.
Both FindBar Tweak and Tile Tabs were among the most popular pre-Quantum FF extensions. Their compatibility was handled reasonably well in PM 28.0.1 without any extension-specific support. If it's at all possible, I think that a lot of people would really appreciate it if this functionality were carried forward in the
findbar.termPerTab option.