Firefox3, Your Old Extensions, And You
Thursday April 24, 2008
I’ve been using Firefox 3, beta5 for a while now and am very much liking it. It’s crashed a fair bit, but that’s understandable being that it’s only a beta5. One thing that has bothered me, though, was that quite a few of my must-have extensions aren’t released for FF3 yet. TinyURL Creator, for one, is notably absent. Well, thanks to this page, I found a really simple workaround to enable (possibly dangerous and a bad idea to do) your old extensions in FF3:
All I had to do was to create a “extensions.checkCompatibility” boolean field in the Firefox about:config and set it to false. As you can guess, this disables the compatibility check for the extensions, and all the disabled incompatible extensions are enabled (with warning messages). Of course, this does not guarantee that the extension will work.
Yay! TinyURL Creator works again!
Hm, and while I’m on the subject of browser betas, Opera’s latest beta is looking really nice and finally works with the latest Flash plugin. And is it just me or is there a horrible vacuum where there should be some nice Firefox 3 themes? The only tolerable one I’ve found is the updated Qute theme.
Opera finally supports the newer Flash? I loved that browser until the Flash fiasco. Since then I learned to love Konqueror… there was a flash workaround in Konqueror in, what, a week? And it was “fixed” in a month? Gotta love that. As much as I love Opera, their snail’s pace development cost them at least ONE user.
For forcing extension compatibility, I always recommend Nightly Tester Tools. It allows for a little more flexibility than the extensions.checkcompatibility flag.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
Also, the Firefox theme that I can never do without – Nasa Night Launch: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4908 . It’s beautiful, well made and always up to date.
Regards!