From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Baxter Subject: Re: Firefox extension "Org-capture" stopped working after update Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:37:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87h8x6aedn.fsf@yandex.com> References: <871sob1xft.fsf@jane> <8760dnp8x0.fsf@alphapapa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1diERC-00087J-Pe for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2017 02:37:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1diER9-0004co-MA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2017 02:37:50 -0400 Received: from forward101p.mail.yandex.net ([77.88.28.101]:42992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1diER9-0004b9-7X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2017 02:37:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8760dnp8x0.fsf@alphapapa.net> (Adam Porter's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:14:19 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Adam Porter Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>>>> Adam Porter writes: > Marcin Borkowski writes: >> the title text says it all. Anybody can confirm that? How to >> configure capture in FF now? > Hi Marcin, > I'm not sure if you mean updating Firefox or Org. But if it's > Firefox, well, Mozilla is killing off XUL extensions, and that > probably includes the Org-Capture extension. I doubt that it is > possible to rewrite it as a WebExtension. > Firefox 56 is supposed to be the last version that supports XUL > extensions. After Firefox 57 is released, that leaves you with a > few options: > 1. Try to build and install it as an XUL extension in a Firefox > "developer edition" build. Supposedly that will remain possible, > for a while at least, but I don't know if they have confirmed that > or documented it. I expect it would be unsupported, anyway. > 2. Use a ESR release of Firefox, which will keep supporting XUL > until an ESR based on Firefox >= 57 is released. > 3. Dump Firefox. The bottom line is that they don't care about > users like us anymore. I've been using Firefox since it was > Phoenix beta, but they aren't interested in retaining loyal users > anymore; they just want to chase Chrome users by making Firefox > into Chrome. (Of course, why would content Chrome users switch > from actual Chrome to Firefox Chrome? Mozilla doesn't seem to > grok this. I suspect Mozilla will be dead or no longer developing > Firefox within a few years.) > For this option, probably the thing to do is try out Pale Moon. > Its developers have committed to supporting XUL. This is not my > preferred option, but I think it's the only viable one for those > of us who want to keep using XUL extensions; I've been using > Pentadactyl for years and I have no desire to give it up. I hope > Pale Moon will be added to Debian/Ubuntu someday, because I don't > want to have to build or install it manually; but it is probably > worth it anyway. > 4. If you continue using Firefox, you can replace most of the > functionality of the Org-Capture extension by using the > org-protocol-capture-html package. The bookmarklets listed in its > readme let you easily capture pages or parts of pages to Org. May I suggest conkeror and palemoon. I use both and they work well with org-capture. To install palemoon, you just decompress the tar bundle and place the result somewhere in your path. No 'make' or 'make install' is necessary. As for conkeror, I pull a git version (currently 1.0.3) and use XULRunner 41.0.2. It's old I suppose, but for the sites I use (no social media or sites with top-heavy scripting) it works well. You can also launch conkeror using palemoon, and this looks like the future. A word of warning here - I need the palemoon-sse version to do this (I have both). Finally, don't forget emacs own eww browser. Best wishes. -- -- Colin Baxter m43cap@yandex.com GnuPG fingerprint: 68A8 799C 0230 16E7 BF68 2A27 BBFA 2492 91F5 41C8