If you have been brave enough to try out Firefox 3, you might have noticed that a lot of extension in the Firefox addons site is unavailable to you.
This is because those extensions were made for Firefox 2 and are hence not supported in FF3. So, the good folks at Mozilla have completely disabled downloading of such addons, if you browse to the addon page using Firefox 3.
We however disagree with the Mozilla developers. We have found that a large number of Firefox 2 addons function seamlessly in Firefox 3 and it is really cruel to lock out FF3 users from enjoying those extensions.
How to download Firefox 2 extensions using Firefox 3 From The Firefox Addons Site?
- Take Firefox. Type about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
- Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
- Right click and select New -> String.
- Enter the preference name as
general.useragent.overrideand the value asFirefox/2.0.0.14
Now go to an addons page like this and see whether the "Download Now" option is enabled.
How to enable installing Firefox 2 extensions in Firefox 3
We have already covered this here, but reproducing it here for making this post complete.Even though, you are able to download FF2 addons using the above method, your Firefox 3 will resist installing incompatible addons unless you perform the below steps.
- Type
about:configinto Firefox's address bar and click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button. - Right-click anywhere. Choose New -> Boolean. Make the name of your new config value extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.
- Make another new boolean pair called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set the value to false.
- Restart Firefox.
That's it. Now you'll be able to download all addons from Firefox Addons site and also install them in Firefox 3.
You recently blamed my blog of plagiarism. Its quite easy to see how you are getting your blog material by simply plagiarising content from other blogs.
For example, this particular post is a direct rip-off from :
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkakku.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F11%2Ffirefox-beta-4-upgrade-now-and-run-all-your-extensions-extensionscheckcompatibility-false%2F&ei=aTooSNu-Lai-pgTksqioCw&usg=AFQjCNGZjbnsP5OLt39HVZg2hLdl2cHKlQ&sig2=QE_jFPgbqMKFOOJLME7Weg
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabaditya.com%2F2007%2F12%2F19%2Ffirefox-3-beta-2-and-incompatible-extension-workarounds%2F&ei=aTooSNu-Lai-pgTksqioCw&usg=AFQjCNE34n0dnrX1LMgMFS3vEqp1E0W3Mw&sig2=jRi8dtH-pjqxq_2bEM7sHQ.
so please do not cry-foul over supposed plagiarism.
Dear pathetic Anonymous (one who claims himself uber geek),
You have definitely not understood what this post is about and I can't see any connection between this post and the link you have given. Sorry.
This post says how to enable the "Download Now" link in Firefox Addons site. Plus it also mentions about installing Firefox 2 plugin in Firefox 3 for the sake of completing it.
Regular readers of Daily Gyan will notice that the second part have already been covered here before(I have linked to that article in this post too) and it clearly mentions that I got it from the LifeHacker and have liked to them too:
http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/03/how-to-install-delicious-extension-in.html
This too I am proud to add, is not simply republishing another blog's content. Instead I have given entirely unique, new solution to How to Install a FF2 addon in Firefox 3. Then when the Lifehacker update came, I just mentioned that, giving proper links to them.
Another point Uber Geek, this site is licensed under CC. So I don't mind you publishing my articles, but I definitely want to see a link to the original content.
Dear Uber Geek, I am annoyed at myself for wasting my time writing such a reply for you. At least have the guts to leave the comments in your blog next time (and not post comments as Anonymous).
It is nice and clear what you have done. Why dont you package this into a small extension for firefox 3 so that it will become more easier and popular!!
It's not a good idea to download extensions meant for Firefox 2 if you're running Firefox 3. All sorts of unpleasantness can happen.
please...can't we all just get a loan?
Hey everyone, I'm not sure if this just happened to me, but after I did this, I could only access my gmail account in Basic mode, and not in the standard mode. I went back into the settings and reset the values for the two modifications, and it now works fine (it will act as though they've been deleted).
Surely, use FF2 addons on FF3 with a pinch of salt, coz u can't be sure. Some addons behave wierd.
You can use Nightly Tester Tools, a firefox plugin to install older Addons. Find it here...
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