Reviews for FireMonkey
FireMonkey by erosman
Review by Firefox user 13707739
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 13707739, 5 years agoAt GitHub I already expressed my gratitude to the Dev @erosman, so my review below is for potential new FireMonkey' users.
It is an add-on for smart users!
FireMonkey easily replaces several other add-ons, using just 20% of the resources (RAM, CPU etc). The improvements in browser performance, security and privacy are visible.
In addition, FireMonkey is the only add-on (in its class) really Open Source, with the express commitment of the Dev not to invade privacy.
Another advantage is that FireMonkey uses the latest newest API.
Those users who don't care about performance, security, privacy, etc., and want lights, garlands, colors, glitter and fancy stuff ... FireMonkey may not be for them.
Some of the other similar add-ons have many automated functions, while in FireMonkey some are manual. At first I felt intimidated. But in less than 2 days of use, without problems I got used to everything. Today with few days of use, it seems like I have FireMonkey for years. I had practically no problems in the transition and migration of all my other add-ons/scripts (CSS & JS).
FireMonkey is a minimalist add-on, but totally powerful. Virtually any difficulty in the transition of other add-ons can be solved in FireMonkey (or at least almost solved). By the way, every excellent add-on requires a small investment of time at the beginning. But it's just a one-time-task/job.
The Dev (@erosman) is very responsive, and replies very promptly at GitHub. The few problems I found, the Dev solved them on the same day.
FireMonkey is not perfect, and it will undoubtedly have a path of evolution. But today, I can't imagine going back to use all the add-ons FireMonkey replaced.
Do you have doubts? Fears? Take a simple test!... it'll be difficult to repent.
Here I am giving 5 stars because it is the maximum, but FireMonkey deserves all the possible stars.
Attached a review from GHacks: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/10/firemonkey-uses-firefoxs-official-api-for-userscripts-and-userstyles/
It is an add-on for smart users!
FireMonkey easily replaces several other add-ons, using just 20% of the resources (RAM, CPU etc). The improvements in browser performance, security and privacy are visible.
In addition, FireMonkey is the only add-on (in its class) really Open Source, with the express commitment of the Dev not to invade privacy.
Another advantage is that FireMonkey uses the latest newest API.
Those users who don't care about performance, security, privacy, etc., and want lights, garlands, colors, glitter and fancy stuff ... FireMonkey may not be for them.
Some of the other similar add-ons have many automated functions, while in FireMonkey some are manual. At first I felt intimidated. But in less than 2 days of use, without problems I got used to everything. Today with few days of use, it seems like I have FireMonkey for years. I had practically no problems in the transition and migration of all my other add-ons/scripts (CSS & JS).
FireMonkey is a minimalist add-on, but totally powerful. Virtually any difficulty in the transition of other add-ons can be solved in FireMonkey (or at least almost solved). By the way, every excellent add-on requires a small investment of time at the beginning. But it's just a one-time-task/job.
The Dev (@erosman) is very responsive, and replies very promptly at GitHub. The few problems I found, the Dev solved them on the same day.
FireMonkey is not perfect, and it will undoubtedly have a path of evolution. But today, I can't imagine going back to use all the add-ons FireMonkey replaced.
Do you have doubts? Fears? Take a simple test!... it'll be difficult to repent.
Here I am giving 5 stars because it is the maximum, but FireMonkey deserves all the possible stars.
Attached a review from GHacks: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/10/firemonkey-uses-firefoxs-official-api-for-userscripts-and-userstyles/
71 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lex, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18434741, a month agoNothing works properly both user-Scripts and user-Style are broken especially any .css seems to not being respected
- Rated 5 out of 5by tuure, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by garrettw87, 5 months agoI wanted to like FireMonkey, but unfortunately it seems to be incompatible with the vast majority of scripts I use with the Waze Map Editor downloaded from greasyfork.org. There are no JavaScript errors -- the scripts just do nothing. They are listed as active on the page, but something about them just doesn't work with this addon. So I'll have to switch to a different one.
Developer response
posted 5 months agoPlease post the details to the support for a proper investigation. - Rated 5 out of 5by Brown121, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14571563, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Đăng Tú, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DavidK2, 9 months agoThe UI is much better and more intuitive than that of TemperMonkey.
I really like the distinction between CSS and JS modifications and that I don’t need to use “proprietary” GreaseMonkey functions like GM_addStyle (` /* the CSS goes here */ `).
FireMonkey also doesn’t exhibit the bug that TemperMonkey does — when I navigated the same portal over many pages, it seemed TM kept adding the same CSS script over and over, which, over time, slowed Firefox noticeably (after a while TM reported aplying about 70 scripts instead of 2!). - Rated 5 out of 5by ImQP, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Frantishek, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ben SALT.id, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12818352, a year agoSeems like we can't import scripts from zip
Right, unzip everything and import works, but slightly inconvenient, thank you for replying.Developer response
posted a year agoUsers can unzip themselves and then mass-import all scripts. Reading zip requires additional library. - Rated 2 out of 5by Freso, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by idealth, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Modenium, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rayke, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by emacsomancer, a year agoIt is indeed super lightweight. A nice advantage to being on Firefox, as it's not available elsewhere.
- Rated 5 out of 5by serotonin_2a, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tibequadorian, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MoiceVail, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ghost, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17385582, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Footmen, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14234915, 2 years agoI am looking for an alternative to Tampermonkey. FireMonkey looks promising. However, it does not support importing a .zip created by other managers. Therefore, I use Violentmonkey instead.
I've read https://github.com/erosman/support/issues/236