Firefox 3.5 compatibility problems

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Alan Baxter
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Re: Firefox 3.5 compatibility problems

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trevorlawrence wrote:Is it possible to make incompatible Firefox 3 extensions work on 3.5?
Sort of. You can set up Fx so they will install, but there's no guarantee they will work properly. Create the about:config preference extensions.checkCompatibility with the Boolean value of false. Fx 3.5 will now allow you to install incompatible extensions. See Extensions.checkCompatibility - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6
luntrus
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Re: Firefox 3.5 compatibility problems

Post by luntrus »

Hi trevorlawrence.

As a test pilot for Fx 3.7 beta Minefield to resurrect incompatible extensions I use Nightly Tester Tools add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
Sometimes however the incompatibility is between add-ons and interrelated, but in the majority of cases Nightly Tester Tools has never let me down,

luntrus
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091228 Minefield/3.7a1pre
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