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0 pointsdbbolton11y ago0 comments

It's completely useless to most if not all pentadactyl and vimperator users, and actually interfered with my configuration of the former. Now no addon icons can be added to pentadactyl's statusline (well they can be, but they reset every time you start the browser).

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tarminian11y ago· 3 in thread

How many firefox users actually use those add-ons? I'm a vim user, but that doesn't mean I want to use vim key-bindings everywhere.

dbboltonOP11y ago

First of all, it wasn't so much a specific reason why Australis is bad as it was an example of how it broke existing addons. I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Second, both projects have been in active development for years so I'd imagine their userbases are substantial. Pentadactyl has about 20k downloads for release 1.0 alone, probably closer to 100k for all versions. Certainly not the majority of FF users but hardly ignorable either.

M2Ys4U11y ago

>First of all, it wasn't so much a specific reason why Australis is bad as it was an example of how it broke existing addons.

Australis was in the pipeline for a long time, and all work was done in the open. It's one of the reasons there was such a huge fuss made about it.

Addon/extension authors had plenty of warnings and opportunities to make sure that their code didn't break.

fra11y ago

Trust me you do. I started using vimperator two years ago and never looked back.

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