1048511 - "FireGestures" add-on does not draw gesture trails or open links in new tabs with e10s

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Tolgay reports that FireGestures does not work with e10s:

1) Draw trail is not working, I can't see the trail when I try to run a mouse gesture.

2) When I disable e10s I can right click and mouse down on a link and links opening in new tab,but this is not working when I enable the e10s.

3) Wheel gestures are not working with e10s.

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Tolgay says FireGesture's wheel gestures work again, but drawing trails and opening links in new tabs still do not work.

Comment 2

[William Chen [:wchen]]

With only the FireGesture addon installed, I no longer get a right click context menu on Mac OSX.

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

hi Gomita, are you the author of the FireGestures add-on? If you have any questions about add-on support for multiprocess Firefox (e10s), just drop by the #e10s IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org. MDN also has a good introduction:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox

Comment 4

[Gomita]

I'm Gomita, the developer of FireGestures add-on.

Elementary, tell me how can I enable e10s to reproduce the problem.
I'm using Nightly 34.0a1(2014-09-01) on Windows 8.1 64bit.

Comment 5

[tolgay007]

Hi Gomita

1)Set browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true in about:config page.
2)Restart browser.

Tab titles will be underlined if e10s works.

Comment 6

[Gomita]

(In reply to tolgay007 from comment #5)
> Hi Gomita
> 
> 1)Set browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true in about:config page.
> 2)Restart browser.
> 
> Tab titles will be underlined if e10s works.

Thanks. Now I can reproduce the problem.

Comment 7

[Sean Smith]

Scroll to top and scroll to bottom of page don't work, either.

Comment 8

[tolgay007]

This addon completely now working in latest nightly.(Nightly 36)

Comment 9

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Tolgay: by "completely now working", do you mean the addon works correctly or was "now working" a typo for "not working"?

Comment 10

[tolgay007]

Oh sorry I do typo.I mean not working.

Comment 11

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Gomita, what is the progress?  I am highly addicted to your add-on but also I really want to turn-on and test e10s.

Please let us know how we can help fixing it.  Thanks.

Comment 12

[Gary [:streetwolf52]]

FireGestures under e10s results in the right-click context menu not working on a web page.

Comment 13

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

For me it doesn't work at all, add-on v1.8.7.

Comment 14

[Gary [:streetwolf52]]

My comment 12 was just pointing out that FireGestures is affecting the right-click context menu even though it seems like it has nothing to do with it.  FG doesn't work at all for me either.

Comment 15

[Gomita]

Current status: no progress yet.
It seems that major code rewrite is needed to support e10s, since the add-on handles many DOM events which are invoked in content-level.

Comment 16

[Tom Levels]

@Gomita: it's unfortunate a major code rewrite is necessary. But is this something you plan to do in the near future?

Comment 17

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

See comment 16.

Comment 18

[Gomita]

I started code rewriting yesterday and I noticed that it is easier than I expected with the use of some compatibility shims, CPOW objects.
Now, I have a plan to release the first alpha version in a few days.

Comment 19

[Gomita]

However, major rewrite is still needed for the full compatibility with e10s.
Using compatibility shims is only a temporary measure.

Comment 20

[Gomita]

I have just released the alpha version with e10s-compatibility.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firegestures/versions/

Comment 21

[Gary [:streetwolf52]]

So far the alpha version appears to be working fine.  Some more testing should find anything that isn't working.  Good job Gomita.  FG is one of those add-ons that is on my 'can't live without' list.

Comment 22

[Gomita]

(In reply to Gary [:streetwolf] from comment #21)
> So far the alpha version appears to be working fine.  Some more testing
> should find anything that isn't working.  Good job Gomita.  FG is one of
> those add-ons that is on my 'can't live without' list.

Thanks for testing.
If someone finds a bug, please report here.

Comment 23

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Gomita rules!  \o/
Thank you!

Comment 24

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Gomita, looks like the "Hybrid save as..." doesn't work on either links or pages.  Using the _native_ Firefox "Save as" from the context menu works on pages and links tho.

Comment 25

[Gomita]

(In reply to Honza Bambas (:mayhemer) from comment #24)
> Gomita, looks like the "Hybrid save as..." doesn't work on either links or
> pages.  Using the _native_ Firefox "Save as" from the context menu works on
> pages and links tho.

Thanks.
I fixed some bugs including the one you reported.
Try out new alpha version 1.9a3.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firegestures/versions/

Comment 26

[Jerod Lycett]

The latest version does appear to have fixed this.