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extension-finder's Issues

How should we report wrongly suggested replacements?

For example Foxy Gestures is suggested as replacement for Fire Gestures while it's merely chromium like mutilated gesture extension, not even close to Fire Gestures in terms of usability, and should never be considered replacement

Suggest multiple alternatives

A legacy add-on does not map one-to-one to a webextension alternative.

For example, Tab Mix Plus is a big add-on that covers a lot of features. Some people might need a specific feature from TMP, but not all of them.
The spreadsheet here covers multiple individual replacements for TMP features: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/edit#gid=0

Suggesting multiple alternatives will allow users to make a choice.

Crowdsource all the things!

This is a really great idea, but a hand-picked list of 61 one-to-one mappings isn't going to do much to dispel the feeling that Firefox 57 is decimating the Add-On ecosystem. This feels like a great prototype, but if it's going to be linked in official help pages it needs to be a lot more than that.

Firstly, there should be a big prominent link for "Know of an alternative we're missing? Add it here!" It should spam a designated inbox, or be a Google Spreadsheets form, or something. Even a properly labelled link to the "official" suggestions thread would be a start, though "register for yet another forum" isn't that encouraging.

Secondly, get rid of the three-column spreadsheet and put the list in a text file in this repo. Then people can make suggestions by Pull Request too. (There's no link to this repo on the page either, I had to reverse engineer the Github URL, so add that. And a README.)

Thirdly, if you're going to hand-vet the entries, a couple of minutes glancing at each one would seem sensible. You currently have no alternative listed for FireGestures, but have Foxy Gestures as an alternative to something else. The summary of that extension is "Mouse gestures for Firefox. A web extension alternative to FireGestures created by a long time FireGestures user."

Fourthly, on that note, you should be canvassing every author of a WebExtensions add-on for suggestions of legacy add-ons it could be a replacement for. Implement mozilla/addons-server#9 and you won't be in the position of having to pick a favourite.

Finally, I'm not sure why this tool even exists, since addons.mozilla.org apparently built a feature for managing these alternatives already. That seems like a more natural home, although I've no idea if it's actually live, or if anyone ever loaded any data.

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file missing

As of January 1 2019, Mozilla requires that all GitHub projects include this CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file in the project root. The file has two parts:

1. Required Text - All text under the headings Community Participation Guidelines and How to Report, are required, and should not be altered.
2. Optional Text - The Project Specific Etiquette heading provides a space to speak more specifically about ways people can work effectively and inclusively together. Some examples of those can be found on the Firefox Debugger project, and Common Voice. (The optional part is commented out in the raw template file, and will not be visible until you modify and uncomment that part.)

If you have any questions about this file, or Code of Conduct policies and procedures, please see Mozilla-GitHub-Standards or email [email protected].

(Message COC001)

Tab Center Redux is not a replacement for Tab Groups

The Tab Groups replacement is inaccurate, WE replacements exist, but Tab Center Redux is not one of them. Tab Center Redux does sidebar tabs, not tab groups.

There are some add-ons that focus on grouping though:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/conex/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sea-containers/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/?src=search

Can we add videos as alternatives to legacy extensions?

For example we can have alternatives for Beyond Australis and Roomy Bookmarks

Download Star is a better DownThemAll! alternative

It was specially created to replace DTA's mass downloads feature

Extension Finder URL for 'Browse compatible extensions'

Observation

With https://mozilla.github.io/extension-finder/ as a starting point, there's direction to

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?tag=firefox57 sorted by relevance.

That's OK, in a predictable sort of way. Predictable as in (no offence) it's very likely that many users have stumbled into that view, that default view, umpteen times in recent days/weeks/months. Like, "Oh, there's a red ad blocker and a few YouTube things again.". Popular, predictable.

With the countdown to 57 at less than eighteen days …

Suggestion

… I reckon that newest will be more stimulating:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?sort=created&tag=firefox57

A step further, put the sort at the tail of the URL:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?tag=firefox57&sort=created

The stimulation, the newness, should – among other things – give some subtle/unconscious reassurance to the subset of users who will have difficulty finding a replacement.

Distraction from difficulty can have a tremendously positive effect …

Add session manager alternative for Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus had a session management feature for saving all tabs, and reopening them on restart. An alternative for this function would be
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/, which is currently not yet in the list.

Tab Center Redux doesn't replace Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus is about configuring tab behaviour (what happens when you open a link in a new tab, etc), but that isn't really covered by Tab center redux.

Wiki changes

FYI: The following changes were made to this repository's wiki:

• defacing spam has been removed

• Restricting write access to contributors is strongly encouraged. Please make that change (documentation).

These were made as the result of a recent automated defacement of publically writeable wikis.