One of the only gripes I’ve had with Firefox is that every new version number knocked out several extensions. Thus, I would have to wait for the extension’s author to post an updated version. Typically, the only change is an update to the version of Firefox that the extension supports (0.8 to 0.9 to 0.10 to 1.0…) Now that 1.0 is out, this should happen far less frequently, but, of course, 1.0 breaks extensions that I want to use. So, a quick bit of research lead me to this forum post which provides easy to follow directions for fixing these ‘broken’ extensions:
1. Close Firefox
2. Edit the file Extensions.rdf contained in %appdata% > MozillaFirefox > Profiles > randomname > extensions
(on my Windows box, I edited C: > Documents and Settings > Alex Jones > Application Data > MozillaFirefox > Profiles > r0cy7i5r.Alex > extensions > Extensions.rdf )
3. Change every occurrence of maxVersion=”0.10″ to maxVersion=”1.0″
4. Start Firefox and look at your extensions menu. If the extensions are still grayed out, right-click on each one and click on ‘Enable’. Once you restart Firefox, these should be available as well.
Did you like this? Please share it:
1 trackback
4 comments so far… Jump into the discussion and tell us what you think.
This worked like a charm! I have my draggable tabs back, and that makes me very happy.
Great to hear!
do you have any suggestions how i should go about *installing* extensions that refuse to be installed because of version problems?
Check out the Extensions Mirror as they have some people who update the version number in a lot of extensions that would otherwise be left in the dust. If you don’t find what you need there, you may want to check out the MozillaZine forums, as that would be the ultimate resource for an answer. :)