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Comments on: Make old add-ons work in Firefox beta

There's a trick to make add-ons work in the beta version of Firefox, but be prepared for the consequences.

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by wojx June 20, 2009 12:25 AM PDT: First. Nightly Tester Tools works fine for me.; Like this Reply to this comment


by romanom June 20, 2009 12:44 AM PDT: I use MR Tech's Tool Kit, works a charm;

http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/#toolkit; Like this Reply to this comment

by Miep.Visser June 21, 2009 4:04 AM PDT

HELP!

I moved to a new laptop, and 4got to copy my Firefox extensions.
Most were traced, but I 'lost' the one that auto-sorts my bookmarked tabs.
It also stripped it of their names, allowing a much larger number of tabs on more-than-one row.

Any idea what this dd-on was called?

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by mikaura June 21, 2009 7:21 AM PDT: Go to the Mozilla website and navigate to the add-ons. Search for the name "XMarks". This add-on used to be called "Foxmarks". Happy bookmarking...; Like this


by OCphil72 June 21, 2009 8:42 AM PDT: Do not do this unless you want to uninstall the entire program and do a clean reinstall! He did say at they end "Now all your add-ons should load quite nicely. At least if they don't crash the whole browser. Don't forget you turned off the capability to ensure secure updates. So do be careful." So make sure that you want to do it! Back up your bookmarks before you do this, that is, if you do this.; Like this Reply to this comment


by Lookyminer June 21, 2009 1:05 PM PDT: I installed Nightly Tester Tools and the extensions and themes compatible with FF 3.2 are working in FF 3.5 RC2 with no problems. Great !; Like this Reply to this comment


by cayble June 21, 2009 10:03 PM PDT: No biggie. FF is a great browser as is IE, dispute what the lunatics say. If you want to get a little bit crazy, you have to live with what works, but for once it would be nice to see a few of the anti- Windows crowd at least admit all is generally well.; Like this Reply to this comment


by BabyfaceTami June 22, 2009 7:46 AM PDT: I installed Limewire 5,,,and now it won't even come up for me. I want my old limewire back,,, I had alot of songs on mine. I don't know what version I had. Plz help me get my old version back. I uninstalled Limewire 5something,,,,and now can't find out how to reinstall my older version. Help!; Like this Reply to this comment


by NewOrderrr June 23, 2009 1:01 AM PDT: I've used Nightly Tester Tools as well, but also found that an old add-on can be made to work by 'unzipping' the add-on and editing the 'install.rdf file inside it with a text editor.

Change the <em:maxVersion>3.1.0.*</em:maxVersion> to 3.6 or higher.

I've done this with a Firefox 1.5 add-on and keep upgrading the max version as new Firefox versions come out.

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