Elliot Peele - Upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta 5 in Foresight Linux 2

May. 7th, 2008

06:14 pm - Upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta 5 in Foresight Linux 2

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

As some people may have noticed Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been pushed to Foresight Linux 2 QA and will soon be default in Foresight Linux 2.

The first thing that I noticed when I updated was that none of my extensions worked. After a few minutes of googling, I found that there are a couple ways to work around this. Some projects have development builds of their extensions that work with beta 5 and some don’t. For those that don’t you can try disabling extension compatibility checks.

Note that both of these options are potentially dangerous and may cause firefox to become unstable.

I disabled compatibility checks and downloaded the developer release of Tab Mix Plus, an extension that I can not live without. All seems to be working so far.

Disabling compatibility checks:

go to “about:config” in your address bar
right click to get to New -> Boolean
set extensions.checkCompatibility for the key
and false for the value

Developer versions that you might be interested in:

Thanks to the following two blog posts that were great resources.

Tags: foresight

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