One of the biggest issues that Firefox users have with the rapid release cycle introduced earlier this year is the fact that updates often disabled their add-ons in the browser due to incompatibilities. Most of the time though those incompatibilities can be attributed to the maximum compatible version number assigned to an add-on, and not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Check Firefox Add-On Compatibility Before Upgrading
Have you ever thought about upgrading to a new version but discarded the idea because of possible extension incompatibilities? The Firefox web browser does not perform checks prior to installing a new version if the add-ons and plugins are compatible with the updated version. That can be problematic especially if the user does not want [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Three Methods To Force Add-On Compatibility In Firefox
You might have read in our announcement post about the latest Firefox 3.6 beta that the Mozilla developer’s have changed the add-on compatibility parameter in the Firefox web browser. This article will therefor describe three different ways to force add-on compatibility in the upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser. It has to be noted that forcing compatibility [...]