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Hypothesis Firefox WebExtensions Prototype Instructions
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Hypothesis Firefox WebExtensions prototype

  1. Install Firefox Developer Edition from https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/developer/ and run it
  2. Enter "about:config" in Firefox's URL bar and press Enter
  3. Search for "xpinstall.signatures.required" and double click the setting to toggle it to "false"
  4. Download the Firefox WebExtensions prototype build from https://s3.amazonaws.com/io.github.robertknight/hypothesis/prototypes/hypothesis-stage.xpi
  5. Open it in Firefox by going to File -> Open and selecting the downloaded extension

What works:

  • Annotation badge. Looks slightly more attractive than Chrome.
  • Activating the page, creating annotations, viewing other users' annotations
  • Annotating PDFs works without the need for a custom viewer bundled with the extension because Firefox own PDF viewer is PDF.js

What does not work:

  • Deactivating the extension. The badge updates but the sidebar remains installed.
  • Fullscreen option not available for videos
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taniki commented Jun 12, 2017

It doesn't seem to work anymore with last Developper Edition.

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