Getting Those Old Firefox Add-ons to Work

3. February 2010

Although I’ve switched to Google Chrome as my primary web browser, I still switch over Firefox every once in a while for one reason or another.

With the recent release of Firefox 3.6 you might find some of your favorite add-ons no longer in working because they haven’t yet been updated to support the new version number.

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You can easily get around this limitation by installing the Nightly Tester Tools Firefox Add-on which allows you to override the maximum version the add-ons say they can support.

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Keep in mind, even though you are forcing your add-ons to run with your current browser version it doesn’t mean they will work, but usually I find that they do work just fine.

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I’m a sucker for running the latest and greatest build of Firefox so the Nightly Tester Tools Firefox Add-on is a must for me.

I tend to use the Portable Versions of Firefox so they are sandboxed in their own little folders. That way I can also have several versions on my box for testing.

As a total side-note, but related point I also like these following Portable Applications that you can find from the same site…

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Comments

2/3/2010 4:21:13 PM #
I'll have to check this one out... haven't heard of it before. I use the MR Tech Toolkit extension for disabling addon version checking in Firefox. It also enables tons of other hacks for FF. The extension's site is here: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/.
2/3/2010 8:05:18 PM #
Nice, I've used MR Tech Toolkit in the past, but didn't realize it had the same feature as Nightly Tester Tools. Thanks for the tip ;)
2/3/2010 9:39:06 PM #
Nice post !!!
2/4/2010 8:51:10 PM #
Great tip Elijah!, I remember once I unpacked the .xpi file and manually changed the version :S

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