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Is Noscript compatible with Firefox 3.5.5 for Windows 7?

Yes

I have a clean install of Win7 Ultimate 32bit and Firefox 3.5.5 and I'm seeing this:



A couple other extensions are giving me the same error. Wasn't there a compatibility trick you could do to just force the addons to not check compatibility and work anyway?

Thanks in advance,
pogue

Try hitting the "Find Updates" button - Firefox should automatically detect & install a compatibility update.

computerfreaker wrote:Try hitting the "Find Updates" button - Firefox should automatically detect & install a compatibility update.

Yeah, I tried that first. It said "compatibility update installed" but after restarting FF it has the same error. Very weird...

Try this - it will force Firefox to accept your "incompatible" addons.
http://jkontherun.com/2008/06/05/how-to-force-fi/

Also, make sure you have write privs for the folder Firefox is installed in - if Firefox is in C:\Program Files (or any other folder that typically has admin-only write privs), and you're running in a limited user account, Firefox might not be able to apply those updates because you don't have permission to.

computerfreaker wrote:Try this - it will force Firefox to accept your "incompatible" addons.
http://jkontherun.com/2008/06/05/how-to-force-fi/

Also, make sure you have write privs for the folder Firefox is installed in - if Firefox is in C:\Program Files (or any other folder that typically has admin-only write privs), and you're running in a limited user account, Firefox might not be able to apply those updates because you don't have permission to.

Ah, perfect! That is what I was looking for. Windows 7 does have a lot of weird permissions (I'm upgrading from XP to 7), but other extensions worked okay and some did not. The extensions.checkCompatibility = false fixed the problem though.

Thanks!

Windows 7 does not have any weird permissions unless you are not admin on that machine and it works just fine. It has for me using the alpha/beta/rc/retail versions of 7 for over a year and half now, as it does for millions of others worldwide. You are not doing something right or your firefox is not closing completely for changes to take effect or your extension list is stuck or corrupted. Also if you chose to run Fx as admin at the end of the installer instead of saying no and closing and opening it up normally, you will have this issue too. Not a windows problem here and you can hack and tweak things to work but you might want to try and do it right rather than easy.