How To Make Your Add-Ons Run In Firefox 3 Beta

A few days ago I read a very good article on LifeHacker.com and I thought that it would have been useful for you too.

Photo Credit: Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

I just upgraded to version 3.0b of Firefox but many of my favorite extensions are disabled, with no way of getting them to work.

Editors at LifeHacker have found a great trick in order to set Firefox to ignore compatibility, and let it run any extension even if designed for other versions.

So here is explained how to run Firefox 2.0 add-ons in version 3.0b:

Only do this if you’re willing to deal with possible bleeding edge extension bugs and security risks!

Type about:config into 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.

Now any extension that isn’t yet officially Firefox 3 Beta compatible and doesn’t have secure updates (like Better Gmail and friends) will be enabled.

Final warning: These changes may lead to unexpected wacky behavior. Proceed at your own risk!

Via: LifeHacker.com