Bistro!: How many extensions left after upgrading to Firefox 2.0?

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samedi octobre 28, 2006

How many extensions left after upgrading to Firefox 2.0?

50%. Is this an average number? How many extensions really need more than an configuration change?
If you're looking for your favorite extension, check out this.
I'll miss the SwitchProxy Tool most.

Update: thanks to Jeff, I got almost all my extensions back using this

( oct. 28 2006, 10:34:10 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [6]

Comments:

Hi Alexis, also check out the homepages for updates , I found updates that were not reported by the UI, and ProxyButton works well see http://proxybutton.mozdev.org/ :-) I use TabMixPlus, IE Tab & Flashblock as utilities. Matt

Posted by 172.207.225.87 on octobre 28, 2006 at 10:56 PM CEST #

(with ID)

Posted by Matt Hosanee on octobre 28, 2006 at 10:58 PM CEST #

You should try out the Nightly Tester Tools (http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly). It allows you to mark any extension as compatible even if it doesn't think that it is. I used it to mark most of my extensions as compatible and almost everyone of them worked fine.

Posted by Jeff on octobre 29, 2006 at 03:17 AM CET #

I think you should have a look at "Mobile Net Switch" (http://www.mobilenetswitch.com/)

Posted by Klaasjan on octobre 29, 2006 at 02:21 PM CET #

I had a couple of extensions that I wanted to keep, but that were not compatible with 2.0. I downloaded the xpi files instead of installing them, opened the xpi with Total Commander (any zip tool should do the trick) and edited the file install.rdf. There are two entries for FF and TB, named <em:maxVersion> where I changed the value to 2.0+. After putting the edited file back in the xpi, it is just a matter of dragging the xpi into an open FF window. This has worked for me for those extensions that I wanted to keep, but in case you have an extension that really is not compatible, I don't know what the outcome would be.

Posted by Peter Stricker on octobre 29, 2006 at 10:13 PM CET #

Thanks all. Jeff, this is a nice tool!

Posted by Alexis MP on octobre 30, 2006 at 12:23 PM CET #