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Monday, February 1, 2010

Firefox Friday Five

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Happy Friday everyone!

I suppose it's to be expected, after a flurry of activity from the Mozilla HQ over the last few weeks, that things would calm down a little. There wasn't much Firefox news this week I'm afraid, but I've done my best to scrape together five fairly-interesting tidbits.

Let's start with a neat tip:

1. Overriding the add-on compatibility/version check

Most of you have probably updated to Firefox 3.6 in the past week -- except those of you that are hanging on to old add-ons that haven't had updated versions released!

Fortunately, most add-ons that work in 3.5 also work in 3.6 -- you just have to override the function that checks. You run the risk of having less stability, but in most cases you'll be fine. Follow these simple steps:
  • Type about:config into your address bar
  • Create a New Boolean Value by right-clicking in any empty space (New>Boolean)
  • Type in extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 (copy and paste it if necessary). Click OK.
  • Select false on the next dialog box. Click OK.
Voila!

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Firefox Friday Five originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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