PrefBar to single Addons migration list
As mentioned several times, PrefBar will no longer work with Firefox 57. As it is also a pain to maintain an "all in one" extension, this is a good time to make use of the available Addon management system for Firefox and get the useful/important buttons migrated into small Addons, published on addons.mozilla.org.
This list does not contain any buttons, done by PrefBar users on their own. If you have a good idea for some new functionality, which could be added to Firefox, feel free to ask me. If I like your idea, it may be added to my "TODO-list".
The following symbology is used to state the current plan for each individual button:
green means that this button is already replaced by either a Addon done by me or some other developer.
yellow means that this button is on my todo list. This may mean that I do some addon to replace it or that, after some time, maybe someone else already created something to replace this one. Goal is to have these somehow replaced until Firefox 57 is out.
red means that these buttons are, so far, not planned to be handled somehow. I don't use them and if I don't get enough requests for an individual button, I won't do anything to get them ported.
line-through means that this individual button will not be possible with Firefox 57. Reasons for this may be missing functionality or that the button handles things that will be phased out by Mozilla (like Plugins).
PrefBar builtins
| Button name | Comments |
|---|---|
| Restore Tab button | Replaced by Undo Close Tab |
| Colors checkbox | Replaced by Toggle Website Colors |
| Send Referrer checkbox | Replaced by Toggle Referrer |
| Clear All button | Recommended replacement: Clear Cache and Data or: eCleaner |
| JavaScript checkbox | Recommended replacement: Disable JavaScript |
| Proxy Menulist | Recommended replacement: Proxy SwitchyOmega |
| Proxy Serverlist | Recommended replacement: Proxy SwitchyOmega |
| Proxies checkbox | Recommended replacement: Proxy SwitchyOmega |
| Clear Cache button | Recommended replacement: Empty Cache Button |
| User Agent list | Recommended replacement: User Agent Switcher |
| Images checkbox | Recommended replacement: Image Block X |
| Language | Replaced by Language Switch |
| Javascript (Tab) checkbox | |
| Images (Tab) checkbox | |
| Fonts checkbox | |
| Animation checkbox | |
| Cookies checkbox | |
| Cookie Warning checkbox | |
| Cache checkbox | |
| Clear History button | |
| Clear Cookies button | |
| Home button | Firefox has a builtin button "Home" |
| Kill Flash button | Plugins will be phased out at all by Mozilla |
| Plugins (Tab) checkbox | Plugins will be phased out at all by Mozilla |
| Java checkbox | Plugins will be phased out at all by Mozilla |
| Flash checkbox | Plugins will be phased out at all by Mozilla |
| System Colors checkbox | No way for an WebExtension to access this setting |
| Pipelining checkbox | No way for an WebExtension to access this setting |
| New Tab button | Use the "+" button in Firefox or middle click into the empty space at the end of the tab bar. |
| Font - button | Firefox has builtin zoom buttons |
| Font + button | Firefox has builtin zoom buttons |
| Popups checkbox | Can be configured in the Firefox configuration dialog and at least I never had to disable this feature. |
| Clear Location Bar button | Recent Firefox version use Bookmarks and History to populate the location bar dropdown. No way to clear that. |
| Resize list | Use the Firefox builtin developer tools to simulate screen sizes or even mobile devices. |
Buttons from the "More Buttons" database
| Button name | Comments |
|---|---|
| Page2Image Button | Replaced by Save Screenshot |
| Kill other tabs button | Firefox builtin: Right-click on the tab you want to keep, select "Close Other Tabs". If you need a button for this: Clear Tabs |
| User Style Checkbox | Recommended replacement: Stylus |
| Url Path Buttons | Recommended replacement: Navigate Up WE |
| CSS Checkbox | Recommended replacement: CSS Toggler |
| Reload Proxy Auto Config (PAC) Button | Recommended replacement: Reload PAC button |
| Kill Session Button | |
| Toggle Context Menu Checkbox | |
| Block Auto Refresh Checkbox | |
| PDF JS checkbox | |
| Locale Switch Menulist | |
| Clear Domain Cookies | |
| Expire History Button | |
| Permissions Menu | |
| Cookie Behavior Menulist | |
| Minimum font size checkbox | |
| Reload domain tabs button | |
| Print Menu | |
| InfoList Button | |
| Referer Spoof Menulist | |
| Validate Buttons | |
| Clear Download Manager Button | |
| Server Info Button | |
| UnPopup Button | |
| Meta Redirect Checkbox | |
| Image Menulist | |
| Online Checkbox | |
| Addon Developer Buttons | Most of these are no longer relevant for debugging WebExtensions and even if they would, there is no API to implement them. |
| eBayNegs Button | Easily doable directly on the ebay website. No need for this button. |
| Bookmarkmanager Button | Firefox builtin: Click "Bookmarks" button and select "Show All Bookmarks" from there. |
| Tab Focus Checkbox | No way to change this browser-builtin setting with WebExtensions. |
| Geolocation Checkbox | Firefox asks for every page before actually sending location data. No need to toggle this feature. If you don't like it, just disable it once and forever using about:config. |
| Font Reset Button | Firefox has builtin zoom buttons |
| GFX Xrender checkbox | |
| PDF Reader checkbox | Plugins will be phased out at all by Mozilla |
| Silverlight checkbox | Plugins will be phased out at all by Mozilla |
| Full page zoom checkbox | |
| Open addon manager button | Just use a bookmark to "about:addons" |
| Restart browser button | |
| New Windows Checkbox | |
| Clone Tab Button | Middle-click or Ctrl+click to the "Reload" button in Firefox to clone a tab. |
| Profilemanager Button | SeaMonkey only |
| Tab Preview Checkbox | SeaMonkey only |
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