A temporary fix for incompatible Firefox 1.0 extensions

Nov 12, '04 11:15:00AM

Contributed by: john1620b

I found this hint (in the comments area of the Close Tab on Double Click extension page) when searching for a way to fix my (displeasingly numerous) extensions that weren't compatible with Firefox 1.0.

To get old extensions to work with the new version of Firefox, type about:config in the location bar and hit return, and you'll have access to all the config preferences in Firefox. Look for the one named app.extension.version and change it to a prior version of Firefox. The comment on the update.mozilla.org page says to try 0.10, but I found 0.9.0 to work for more of my extensions.

Make sure you use the right format for the version number. 0.90, for instance, doesn't work, and neither does .1. I'm not quite sure on the format (since 0.10 works but 0.90 doesn't), but you can play around with it until you find the right combination.

Obviously, this is only a temporary fix until all the extensions have been sufficiently updated, and I make no guarantees that it won't create conflicts in Firefox (Mozilla probably made Firefox incompatible with those extensions for a reason). However, I've been using it with 0.9.0 for a few days and have noticed no problems. If you're like me, and find you can't live without that one particular extension, this might restore your happy web-browsing experience.

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