I'm sure you'll be able to find equivalents if the one you use become unsupported
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It's not just one addon and so far there is no sign of Webextension equivalents. Speed Dials, Mouse Gestures, things like that.
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I would suggest to contact the addon autors first and ask their plans. Some of them are probably working on this.
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Where does the optimism that most authors will rewrite their addons from scratch come from? It's quite some effort. I'm very skeptical.
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It's hard work, I'm migrating my addons now. But you know what I'm skeptical about? A future for Firefox *without* WebExtensions.
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I'm not saying Firefox should drop WebExtensions. It just shouldn't drop all addons which are not WebExtensions.
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I know too much about that architecture. That way lies madness. There's no future there. Not secure, and super slow. Giant footgun.
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If I lose my Speed Dial & Mouse Gesture addons, I'm better off switching to Vivaldi which at least provides basic functionality of that.
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Yeah, that might be a better choice for now if you cannot survive without them. At least until they're migrated to WebExtension.
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If they ever get migrated to WebExtension. And remember: users who moved to another browser are unlikely to come back.
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Yes, super hard problem. I rewrote the porting page on MDN yesterday. I’m not on the addons team, but I’m trying to find ways to help.
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Blog posts would help
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Blog posts about what? Can you provide more information?
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