http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/08/firefox-3-when-add-ons-do-not-work/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/08/firefox-3-when-add-ons-do-not-work/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:34:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4904 I finally upgraded from Firefox 2 to the latest release candidate of Firefox 3 and immediately ran into a problem. My RSS feeds were not showing up at all in the Bookmarks and they only did so after importing an old bookmarks.html file from the Firefox profile folder which in turn duplicated every other bookmark. Took a while to remove the duplicates again but I now have my RSS Feeds in the Bookmarks Folder as well.

It turned out that my favorite RSS add-on Brief for Firefox was not compatible with the release candidate 2. I tried to force compatibility which did not work either. Now here is the interesting information that might help you if you ran into a similar problem. If one of your add-ons is not compatible to the latest Firefox version you could visit the developer’s homepage to see if he did post a new version or a workaround.

It turned out that the developer was busy creating Brief beta versions, the latest on his homepage was Brief 1.2 beta 2 while the latest on the official Mozilla website was Brief 1.1. Brief 1.2 beta 2 is fully compatible to Firefox 3 and I was able to select my feeds and use the RSS Feed add-on ever since.

To sum it up. If you have an add-on that you need but that is not compatible try to force compatibility. If that is not working check the developers homepage for new versions that have not been posted on the official Mozilla website yet. It worked for me.

Tags: brief, firefox, firefox add-ons, firefox compatibility, firefox tips

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I had no intention to wait and thought of installing a firefox 1.0 version next to the new 1.5 but lucky Martin found a site that explains how to make firefox extensions that do not work with your firefox version work in your firefox version. That sounds complicated somehow, lets see how this is done..

1. At the location bar, enter: about:config. This will show you a list of Firefox internal preferences.
2. Right-click on the list, select New > String
Enter “app.extensions.version (without quotes) for the preference name.
3. Then, enter “1.0 (without quotes) as the value for app.extensions.version.
4. Restart Firefox 1.5, then enable those disabled Firefox extensions.
5. Restart Firefox 1.5 again to active the extensions. Done.

That’s it, five easy steps and every extension should be working like before.

Tags: firefox, firefox compatibility

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