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   Jaddis
   Member

   For all of you who participated in the FireFox Download Day you will be happy to know that Mozilla did set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in a 24 hour period. So for those of you who helped out you can have the exciting knowledge that you helped set a real Guinness World Record! Be Proud!
   You can read more about it at and download a certificate saying you helped set the world record at: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   sergio
   Member

   its just a shame that almost none of my favorite plugins work at this time with version 3.

   Posted 16 years ago #
3. 

   BuBBy
   Teh adnim

   Out of interest, sergio - which Add-ons were your incompatible favorites?

   In some cases Nightly Tester Tools (NTT) can get around version limitations.

   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543

   Of course these are Testing tools and bypassing the compatibility checks may need some testing - but I found a few while FF was in beta - and the incompatible Add-ons worked just fine.

   (Sometimes even slight issues are worth putting up with - when it means you can use your favorite Add-ons until a new one for version 3 is written)

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   Jaddis
   Member

   A few of my plug-ins were not compatible with FF3. FF3 does keep track of which ones these are and when a update comes along it will automatically find it and let you know about it.

   Posted 16 years ago #
5. 

   BuBBy
   Teh adnim

   The "not compatible" is actually just a version number that the programmer states when he releases the plugin. Of course life being what it is and commitments springing up - sometimes when plugins need to be updated - there isn't any time free.

   The testing tools I mentioned above basically tells firefox to ignore the maximum version number encoded in the plugin - so while it might say it will work with Firefox up to version 2.x - with the testing tools you can make it install and load in version 3.

   Then you should go through and check that it works as you expect - It probably will - but some plugins might make the browser crash or freeze. (Hint - you remove these plugins)

   If the plugin causes firefox to choke - then you have to wait for the new version.
   If the plugin works ok and you are happy with it - you have something that you can use until the programmer gets around to updating it.

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   sergio
   Member

   i use so may add-ons that it would be dificult to put them all here, bubby.
   if i could just say 1, id say tab mix plus is my top #1.
   as i predicated this would happen, i actually installed on a backup machine to see what the results would be.
   i will give the "fool firefox" addon a try..
   thanks.

   Posted 16 years ago #

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