>>>>> Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> writes:
> Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> 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.
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