Force old Firefox Extensions to work in Minefield or Nightly-Trunk

zdavatz Open Source July 3, 2008July 3, 2008 1 Minute

I am a nightly trunk addict also because I like to help OSS projects that I love and use daily. I stumbled across this Linuxworld article but installing the Nightly Tester Tools did not help. My about:config was missing the following two lines:

extensions.checkCompatibility

extensions.checkUpdateSecurity

I added them with Right-Click, New > Boolean and set both to “False”. Now all my old extensions work and this is great!

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Published July 3, 2008July 3, 2008

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luap says:

January 14, 2010 at 6:14 am

hum, trick seems not to be working for me, too bad…

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zdavatz says:

January 14, 2010 at 7:13 am

@luap: It should work. But you will have to click “addons” and then in the right corner there is a button called “override all compatibility”. Hit that and then restart Firefox. That should work for you as well.

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