KdeActivitiesFirefoxAddon is a Firefox Add-on to add rudimentary support for KDE Activities.

Opening a link (from an external application) will now always open this link in a Firefox window on the current Activity. This is done by moving the tab to either a new window or an already existing window on the current Activity.

This Add-on consists of two parts, the Firefox Add-on (WebExtension) and a native component. The native component is required to know what window is on which Activity.

If you open multiple Firefox windows simultaneously (e.g. on session restore) it is hard for the native component to distinguish them. To prevent confusion in this case the Add-on opens a special tab in every window (with a different id per window) and closes right away again.

• addons.mozilla.org

git clone "https://github.com/Scheirle/KdeActivitiesFirefoxAddon.git"
cd KdeActivitiesFirefoxAddon
mkdir build

cd ./addon/
web-ext build

Getting started with web-ext

cd ./build/
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make
sudo make install

• Qt 5
  • Qt5Core
  • Qt5Gui
• KF5WindowSystem
• KF5Activities

Start firefox and browse to about:debugging. Add this add on temporary by selecting a file from the KdeActivitiesFirefoxAddon/addon/ subdirectory.

Alternatively you can run web-ext run in KdeActivitiesFirefoxAddon/addon/.