Firefox 55(.0.3) crashes with Pentadactyl installed.

[jfl209]

Don't know how to reproduce this issue. It takes several minutes for it to happen on average.

[dnnr]

I see the same issue. It happens reproducibly for specific keyboard inputs.

[rdrr]

Can you post some of the key presses that are causing it to crash for you? I've been running for a few days and haven't had a crash yet.

[dnnr]

Pressing return does the trick, reproducibily. I haven't verified that on a clean profile, though.
I'm also not expecting much to come out of this report, given the project is basically dead, except for the few of us clinging to it while it still (sort of) works.

[egolus]

gd crashes for me

edit: actually a lot of g+<key> combinations lead to a crash

[dermorz]

<CR> in normal mode also does the trick (no field selected).

/edit: Even if you map <CR> to any key.

[wshanks]

This crashing is due to a bug in Firefox 55. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397711 and wshanks/pentadactyl-signed#4. The bug is fixed in the current beta release of Firefox (version 56).

[krompus]

@willsALMANJ oh, thank goodness.

I was hoping it's not finally time to migrate. Starting the feel like I'm on a sinking ship though, haha.

Unrelated, but I'd rather not open another issue just for this question: how shall I keep Penta up to date going forward? Basically just make sure it's signed? Thanks. :)

[wshanks]

I'm not sure how the signing is going to work once 57 comes out and legacy addons are no longer allowed. I thought I saw that they would stop signing legacy addons at some point. If your primary interest is in using Pentadactyl and not in new Firefox features, you can get a little more life out of it by using Firefox 52 ESR which is officially supported until July 2018. Also, you might be able to use Pentadactyl with Firefox 59 Nightly when 57 comes out. At least, there are preferences in Nightly for turning off the signing requirement and for allowing legacy addons to be installed. However, it was hard enough keeping Pentadactyl working when XUL addons were supported. Once they are no longer supported, I would guess the internals of Firefox that Pentadactyl relies on will change more rapidly.

[krompus]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm really not looking forward to this. As a fellow Pentaddict, what are your plans? ESR?

[wshanks]

For now, I use Saka Key. It has issues, but it worked better for me than Vimium-FF the last time I tried it. The developer of Saka Key is responsive and plans to add more features. Neither of those two allows mapping keys to arbitrary code right now, which I want. Longer term I am watching the "Better keyboard support" ticket on Bugzilla and hoping it allows for something closer to Pentadactyl. If it ever goes anywhere, then tridactyl might be interesting. I want to stay with Firefox for now but other people have talked about switching to another browser that has vim features built in like QuteBrowser.

Below I am putting the links to the projects I mentioned and some other issues that have discussed this topic. I recommend posting to one of the other issues rather than here so as not to spam the people subscribed to this issue.

Other projects
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saka-key/
https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser

Better support in Firefox
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061
https://github.com/cmcaine/keyboard-api
https://github.com/Koushien/keyboard-shortcut-api

Previous discussions
#99
vimperator/vimperator-labs#705
akhodakivskiy/VimFx#860
wshanks/pentadactyl-signed#3