David wrote: > On 5/11/2009 8:07 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> OK, first off, why in $DEITY's name are we including Firefox 3.5b4 and >> Thunderbird 3.0b2 in Fedora 11? These are unstable branches of the >> browser and email client, and as such are supported by almost none of >> the myriad of extensions available for the 3.0 and 2.0 versions, >> respectively. >> >> I was more than a little disappointed when I upgraded my laptop to the >> F11 Preview to discover that only two out of seven of my Thunderbird >> extensions and three of my thirteen Firefox extensions remained functional. > > > Depending on exactly what extensions that you have if you *download* > them you can change this. Open the .xpi, or .jar, with the archive tool. > Open the file named 'install.rdf' with your text editor and look for > the line that says "<em:maxVersion>". Change that number to the version > that you are using. Or even a little higher if you like. Save and update > the 'install.rdf', close the archive tool, and install your new extension. > > This works for most themes too. The point is that most extension developers haven't felt the need to try to update their extensions for Thunderbird 3 as the API hasn't stabilized yet. Thunderbird extensions are much more finicky than Firefox extensions I would wager, especially given this major feature update. I would offer that Firefox 3.5b4 is a lot closer to RC than Thunderbird 3.0b2 is, and I still expect there to be problems with extensions for Firefox before release (this was very common for Firefox 3.0 as well where changes broke extensions even in the RC series). -Doug
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