One of the biggest issues people have with Mozilla/Firefox extensions (besides security vulnerabilities) is the required version field that indicates which versions of Mozilla/Firefox that particular extension will run on. While that may at first seem a nifty feature, anyone familiar with Firefox’s release of development builds, ranging from a build every hour to a build every night, will immediately realize the problem: the extensions aren’t configured to work with the new builds! And extension writers don’t always have time to update their works with new whitelists of permitted FF builds; and so they don’t work! But fret not, there is a solution, and if you are addicted to to the bleeding edge and set your download manager to download and run the builds on the hour (like some I know…) then this is for you!
- Access the Firefox “registry” by directing FF to “about:config,” without the quotes or comma obviously.
- Right-click anywhere on that page, and select New -> String.
- In the message box that pops up, enter “app.extensions.version” for the name (no quotation marks….) and press enter;
- And when another box appears prompting you for the value, enter the version number of the FF build you want it to impersonate when installing a plugin. I recommend 1.5, but you can use 1.0 as well.
- That’s it, you’re done.. Close the tab and surf our archives, install your plugins, and enjoy your new-found liberty!