HoK doesn't work properly with Electrolysis in firefox 49+ (some versions of 48 too)

[sggutier]

Electrolysis will arrive forcibly to Firefox in a couple of versions, and this could affect some parts of the plugin as well. May something be done to it?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[sggutier]

This also affects some keybindings such as C-n as well.

[luka-n]

I had to disable electrolysis for this, unfortunately hok is more useful. Anyone had a look at this yet?

[tosmarcel]

I'm also on firefox 48 with electrolysis enabled and I'm experiencing the same problem.

[caikechao]

Yes, I can confirm that the electrolysis (or Multi Process Feature) breaks keysnail ... Even the basic jk scrolling keys do not work ...

[louiz]

Confirming this as well.

• “Scroll line down” and “Scroll line up” DON’T work.
• but “Scroll page up” and “Scroll page down” do work.

Tested with firefox 49 with electrolysis enabled.

[phil-s]

I just looked up how to disable this electrolysis feature, and the option name for it is quite astonishingly unintuitive. I've not yet had to do this myself, but hopefully this helps anyone reading this thread to find out how to get KeySnail working again.

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/ says:

Enable / Disable Electrolysis in Firefox. To enable or disable multi-process Firefox, do the following:

• Type about:config in the browser's address bar
• Confirm that you will be careful
• Search for browser.tabs.remote.autostart
• Double-click on the preference

Setting the value of browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true enables the multi-process architecture in Firefox, setting it to false disables it. Please note that you need to restart the browser when you change the preference's value.

[millwood]

It appears that firefox, at least up to 50, automatically turns electrolysis off if there are incompatible add-ons and it knows that keysnail is incompatible.

[louiz]

So, doesn’t anybody know how to replace this code

key.generateKey(ev.originalTarget, KeyEvent.DOM_VK_DOWN, true);

with something that works with electrolysis?

[jgeerds]

Is there any update on this?