Firefox

[kimat]

I just got it more or less working with firefox here: https://github.com/kimat/webcomplete.vim
I'll probably not send a pull request since, and just rename it, since both implemations diverge so much, it will probably be hard to maintain them in a single repo.

[thalesmello]

@kimat How do you generate the ff_current_words file?

In the end, I feel like doing something generic for all the browsers.

[kimat]

I just updated the auto command in vimperator. It should be working better now.

[kimat]

ff_current_source is generated by vimperator

[thalesmello]

@kimat does it need a specific type of configuration? Or vimperator does it by default?

[kimat]

@thalesmello please check the README.md for the setup

[Mte90]

I was looking for the firefox support because in the readme of this project is not explained but luckly there is another repo for that!

The problem is that the other repo has the issues closed so is not possible to report that vimperator is not available anymore in firefox as example.

[kimat]

@Mte90 what other repo are you referring to ?

[Mte90]

To your repo :-)

[kimat]

@Mte90 it never worked that great and with vimperator not working with ff anymore, I guess I would need to adapt it for e.g. tridactyl or maybe have a dedicated plugin.

[Mte90]

I think that is possible to achieve what do you need with a browser extension compatible with firefox/chrome that use native messaging (a binary program) to save the output in a file.

[balta2ar]

browser extension compatible with firefox/chrome that use native messaging (a binary program)

Please pardon my unsolicited advertisement, but FWIW, this is exactly what I did in my web extension + corresponding python client: https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab/
It's not really user-friendly in terms of installation and the hospitality of the README, but if you manage to get through, you should be fine. There are several use cases I had in mind when I worked on it, the most important are:

• reorder/close/move between browser windows tabs by editing their titles + urls as a text file in your favorite editor (removal of a a line means removal of a tab)
• easily switch to/activate tabs (integration with rofi, filtering by the title)
• activate tab by searching through a tab's text content (integration with albert + sqlite fts5)
• backup tab urls (simple listing of all the current tabs, their titles and urls) + mass open URLs from the backup
• complete words from the active tab in neovim (webcomplete integration)
• complete URLs from the currently open tabs (there was a trivial Source for deoplete, not sure I published it, though)

And probably others. Basically it was supposed to be a tool to somehow manage and get around the sh-tload of tabs that I usually have open (close to 1000 tabs in total).

[Mic92]

@balta2ar cool stuff, have you ever tried to make your extension available on addons.mozilla.org?

[Mte90]

Maybe you can do what the project of @kimat need, the output of the page focused so we can reuse it.

[balta2ar]

@Mic92 I did submit it to addons.mozilla so that I could install signed extension just once but I didn't make it public. Currently I have to add a temporary extension each time I reboot Firefox, which is a bit annoying. Yeah, I should probably go public with it, it just hasn't met the required level of standards that I had in my mind. Okay, guys, I see that there is demand for it so hopefully it will motivate me to make progress with it. I'll keep you posted.

[Mic92]

@balta2ar I also have a web-extension in non-public there because I was too lazy to make screenshots for the mozilla code review. It is also possible to submit them there unlisted, but still signed.