Make Old Extensions Work in Firefox 1.5
Filed in: Mozilla, Tips n Tricks — September 12th, 2005
I have reviewed the newly released Firefox 1.5 beta 1. It is great, however most of our “must have” extensions does not work on it yet. Here is a trick to make Firefox 1.0 extensions work in Firefox 1.5 (of course, this is only a temporary solution before your extensions upgrade.)
- At location bar, enter: about:config This will show you a list of Firefox internal preferences.
Right click on the list, select New > String- At preference name enter “app.extensions.version” (without quotes).
- Then, enter “1.0” (without quotes) as the value for app.extensions.version
- Restart Firefox 1.5, then enable those disabled Firefox extensions.
- Restart Firefox 1.5 again to active the extensions. Done.
Note: Some of the extensions are not working in Firefox 1.5 and caused errors when you enable them. We need to disable them for Firefox to work properly.
[ Thanks to Patrick who tells us this trick in his comment ]
