Stylish support

[maxigaz]

With the Firefox extensions Stylish and It's all text!, I can edit user styles with an external editor. I.e. if both are installed, when editing a style, an additional button appears on top with the label "Open in external editor".

However, there's no such button when It's all text! is replaced by withExEditor. (Edit: I'm using Firefox 50.0 under Manjaro Linux.) Therefore, I'm wondering if it's possible to implement this feature in this extension as well.

[asamuzaK]

I'm porting withExEditor to WebExtensions.
And in WebExtensions, content scripts only runs in "http", "https", "file", "ftp", "app" schemes.
Match patterns - Mozilla | MDN
I don't know Mozilla will implement "about" scheme in the future.
If they do, then I'll try to support Stylish.

[asamuzaK]

Note:
Bugs that seem to be related to this issue.

1269456 – Add permission to allow extensions to load semi-privileged URLs

1280370 – contextMenus do not support other protocols (ex. 'magnet:', 'acestream:', 'sop:*')

[asamuzaK]

Note:
Firefox support · Issue #166 · stylish-userstyles/stylish-chrome

[asamuzaK]

Note:
Add another bug that also seem to be related.
1271354 – Support moz-extension: urls in MatchPattern

[asamuzaK]

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Looking at this screenshot, edit page is provided by "chrome-extension" scheme, so if the bug mentioned above (1271354 – Support moz-extension: urls in MatchPattern) is resolved, it seems that withExEditor can be applied.
Plus Stylish need to be updated to WebExtensions.

[asamuzaK]

1271354 - Support moz-extension: urls in MatchPattern is marked as FIXED, but it is limited to it's own moz-extension: url, which means withExEditor can't be enabled in other extension's moz-extension: url.

Anyway, Stylish does not seem to be switched to WebExtensions?

[maxigaz]

Anyway, Stylish does not seem to be switched to WebExtensions?

You're right, although I personally use Stylus now.

[asamuzaK]

Should I close this then?

[maxigaz]

It is fine by me, but I would be more interested in seeing it compatible with Stylus, which is already a WebExtension. Shall I create a separate issue for that?

[asamuzaK]

As mentioned above, you can not execute withExEditor on Stylus' edit page (it's moz-extension://).

It is possible to interact messages between addons using runtime.connect() or runtime.sendMessage(), though.
However, in this case, both add-ons need to correspond, so it may not be so easy.

Would you contact the author of Stylus and see if he/she is interested to correspond with withExEditor?

[asamuzaK]

I will close this