On 5/11/2009 9:14 AM, Douglas E. Warner wrote: > 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). I use nine extensions with Thunderbird 3.0b2. Most of them I 'modified' as I described above. I use eleven extensions with Firefox 3.5b4. Most of which I 'modified'. I have not had any problems with any of them. -- David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
