How to make Firefox Old Addons compatible with Firefox 3.5 or higher
I think more than 50% of the world wide Firefox users might have updated to Firefox 3.5.
Immediately, after upgrading to Firefox 3.5, most of us might have see some of the Addons that we were using might not be compatible with Firefox 3.5.
What if you got accustomed to some addons which you want to use at any cost with Firefox 3.5? This is trick will help you to Make Firefox Addons compatible with Firefox 3.5 or higher. Once you apply this you don’t have to worry much about Mozilla’s updating of Firefox to the latest version fixing all the memory leaks, vulnerabilities and other security loopholes.
How to make Addons compatible to Firefox 3.5 or higher?
The solution is to add some configurations in Firefox settings (which is similar to Windows Registry). All the changes you make from here on are done at your own risk. Do revert the settings if something goes wrong.
- Type
about:configaddress bar of Firefox browser and hit enter. It will give you a warning. Just click the button “I’ll be careful, I promise!” and proceed…
- It will show a huge list of values. Now, right click any where in the free white-space on the screen and click on New –> Boolean, then name the Boolean as checkCompatibility – make it false in the next step.
- again right click and click on New -> Boolean and name as checkUpdateSecurity and choose false.
- After doing this changes to get the changes applied, Restart the Firefox browser. Now install the addon that was not supported or compatible by Firefox 3.5 and install it.
- Restart the Firefox browser once again. Now, the not compatible addon will work with Firefox 3.4
Hope you liked this trick.
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useful for many
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@Atul, right. it will be useful for all those who want to continue using addons in Firefox 3.5
I would recommend being careful with this — some extensions might actually not work with newer versions of Firefox, so be prepared to solve any problems that may come up.
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@Paul, You are right. This is a risky thing, but if you are confident that you can revert it then you can try it.
I did it by making a copy of addons folder at separate location in my hard disk, installing updated firfox and then copy past the older addons folder on the new one. it worked.
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@Custom Essay, Great. Glad that it worked.
Firefox 3.5 is a good one to upgrade with its cool features added. i read about many added features and am sure they are very helpful ones. i like Firefox for such cool upgrades
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@Custom term paper, yeah… you are right…
This site helped me do this easily:
http://www.khattam.info/2009/0.....ompatible/
@Kumar, Thanks for sharing this link
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There is one other way to do it. You can change maxVersion parametr of extension.
@Eloar, Thanks for the tip.
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Whenever you gets the updates of Firefox (for only browser),most of the time there is chance of incompatibility of any of your favorite add-on.
So here is simple and effective hack for this problem