Force Firefox Add-ons to work with Firefox 3.6 betas!
If you already are using Firefox 3.6 betas then you probably already figured that some of your add-ons are not working…because of their compatibility.
Well, to be honest not every add-on needs a huge code change, some of them simply need their compatibility status updated, most of them work with 3.6 anyway. At least mine do…
I wanted Identi.fox and Echofon running, which I way I turned of the Extension Compatibility Check! Here’s how to force your Add-ons to work with 3.6+ betas.
- Type “about:config” in your Firefox url bar
- Search for “extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6b”
- If you have this entry change it from “true” to “false”
- If this entry doesn’t exist, create it via:
- Right click your mouse -> “new” -> “boolean”
- Type in “extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6b” for the new entry and set it to false
This is how it looks finally:

Enjoy your add-ons, but bear in mind there’s a reason that the add-on compatibility check is there!
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27.Nov 2009 in
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“Nightly Tester Tools” add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/6543
let’s you run add-ons not yet approved to recent builds.
You don’t need to mess with “compatibily” configs! It’s safer!
Maybe so, but new add-on = more RAM usage. Whereas this config = 0 RAM usage
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To each his/her own I guess.