~pcwiz Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Since the Firefox 3 betas and all (AdBlock Plus was disabled in b5, yikes!), lots of old favorite extensions have been disabled. In most cases these extensions will still work fine, except for that Firefox doesn't let you. Heres how to disable the compatibility check: 1) In the address bar type in "about:config" (without quotes) and hit enter 2) Accept any warnings that come up about modifying dangerous settings 3) Right click where all the values are and choose New >> Boolean 4) Enter this as the name: extensions.checkCompatibility 5) Set the boolean value to false 6) Restart Firefox! This got my beloved AdBlock Plus extension working in Firefox 3.0b5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 WHOO! USER AGENT SWITCHER NOW WORKS! Thanks for the tip, ~pcwiz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-696631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 Glad you found it useful! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-696653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I've been using FireFox 3 on OS X since beta 3, but I just installed beta 5 on Vista. It is so nice! Mozilla is doing such a great job. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-696674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 Yeah, just installed b5 on Vista today. I had b4 before. Supposedly they were going to do an overhaul of the interface in b5, but all I see is a new look for the tabs. But its more solid than b4, and once the extension devs adapt to it, I think Firefox 3 is ready for prime time I could deal with the loss of other extensions, but not my favorite AdBlock Plus, so I used the mentioned hack to bypass the compatibility check. It doesn't work fully as it did with b4, the blockable items doesn't work and some ads (like on InsanelyMac) aren't blocked but it works for the most part. Anyway, Mozilla is certainly doing a great job Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-696682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 didn't work for my click2tab extension. it's cool though ~pcwiz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-696692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Yeah, just installed b5 on Vista today. I had b4 before. Supposedly they were going to do an overhaul of the interface in b5, but all I see is a new look for the tabs. But its more solid than b4, and once the extension devs adapt to it, I think Firefox 3 is ready for prime time I could deal with the loss of other extensions, but not my favorite AdBlock Plus, so I used the mentioned hack to bypass the compatibility check. It doesn't work fully as it did with b4, the blockable items doesn't work and some ads (like on InsanelyMac) aren't blocked but it works for the most part. Anyway, Mozilla is certainly doing a great job b5 is working better for me than b4. I wish they'd add Aero/DWM support for the Windows versions. It's kinda annoying that IE looks better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-697028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-rick Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Firefox is sooo slow.. really lagging on both my hack and my powerbook.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-697380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 MoC, Yeah but the poor people who are with Home Basic can't take advantage of it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-697386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 This is NOT news!!! Moved to Applications. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-697473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Yeah, just installed b5 on Vista today. I had b4 before. Supposedly they were going to do an overhaul of the interface in b5, but all I see is a new look for the tabs. But its more solid than b4, and once the extension devs adapt to it, I think Firefox 3 is ready for prime time I could deal with the loss of other extensions, but not my favorite AdBlock Plus, so I used the mentioned hack to bypass the compatibility check. It doesn't work fully as it did with b4, the blockable items doesn't work and some ads (like on InsanelyMac) aren't blocked but it works for the most part If you install the latest nightly build of Adblock Plus, it has full support with b5. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-697683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 THANKS Colonel, worked perfectly! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-697690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalprophecy Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Caution, this crashed my Firefox. I had to go into Firefox Safe Mode to remove the value. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-699079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Caution, this crashed my Firefox. I had to go into Firefox Safe Mode to remove the value. Thanks for the warning thefinalprophecy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-699244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Its not with the tweak itself, but when you do the tweak it automatically enables all extensions that were disabled by the compatibility check, so probably one troubled extension. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-699246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 If you install the latest nightly build of Adblock Plus, it has full support with b5. THANK YOU!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-699252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 For those who can't find it here is AdBlock Plus for Firefx 3.0b5: http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockpl...40612-en-US.xpi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97504-make-firefox-2-and-older-extensions-work-with-newer-firefox/#findComment-699353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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