Switching to Firefox Quantum

I'd found news of Firefox Quantum yesterday morning during my commute. News items about how some browser is getting so much better aren't exactly rare, but these changes seemed pretty drastic. And I liked the tongue-in-cheek tone of some of the articles 🙃:

The new user interface, named Photon, brings with it square tabs and a much more conventional main menu. The current curvy tabs were met with outrage on their introduction in 2014, so the reversion to square tabs will, frankly, probably be met with outrage, but the look is clean and precise.

Long story short, tried giving it a spin (I had Firefox Dev already installed for dev work), tried it on some resource-intensive pages, thought it actually looked faster and decided to switch to it as my main browser from vanilla Firefox. (Should have done that long ago, for the nice dark theme, if nothing else. 😊)

And about time, too: since FF started displaying warnings about the impending deprecation of XUL-based plugins, my list looked pretty bleak.

So I replaced anything incompatible with something new. If you like, you can see the results in a collection here, with some caveats:

• I have not been able to replace Perapera - the Japanese character helper tool.
• I love EnhancedSteam - but it doesn't live in the official Addons store, so you have to download it from their web page.
• At first, the PassIFox addon I'd used to connect Firefox to my KeePass DB seemed incompatible. I found a new beta version of the addon, which showed up as chromeIPass on GitHub and installed it; but that was yesterday, and now I see that six hours ago, version 1.0.0 was officially released on the Addons page as KeePassHttp-Connector. There are some occasional glitches, but it works well enoug.
• I found no XKit alternative for now. (That's the thing that makes Tumblr more bearable.)
• ScrapBook seems to be unsupported.
• Tab Mix Plus is unsupported - which is horrible. I really don't want to have to click on tabs to switch to them. 😅
• I dropped the screenshot addon - I'll give the built-in functionality a try.
• FlashGot is unsupported, which is a shame.
• I replaced All-in-One Gestures with Foxy Gestures, so I guess I have some re-learning to do. Never mind, I only use a few gestures anyway.

All in all, I'm pretty satisfied so far.