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Anyone using the Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer extension will be disappointed as I am to discover that it doesn't work with FF5. EDIT: Luckily, I had a moment of

Anyone using the Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer extension will be disappointed as I am to discover that it doesn't work with FF5. EDIT: Luckily, I had a moment of intelligence and copied FF4 before installing FF5, so I would recommend doing that if you use S3Fox with any regularity.

windsurfer 15y ago
You can probably hack the extension to support FF5. There haven't been too many changes that should affect this.
- fishtastic 15y ago
  I found a way to do this in XP. (Vista or 7 should be similar) 1. Open "Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\extensions 2. Find the folder for the unsupported extension, there should be a file called install.rdf inside. 3. Open the file and change the <em:maxVersion> to 5.*. Might have missed something, but that did the trick for me.
- trezor 15y ago
  You can probably hack the extension to support FF5. There haven't been too many changes that should affect this. And hence the stupidity in adopting Chrome-style meaningless major version-numbers when what is released is only a minor update. I know the IT industry is highly fashion-driven, but that doesn't mean following fashions doesn't have drawbacks. This is Firefox 4.1 at best, but released as Firefox 5 with all the needless addon breaking headaches that will bring, just because Mozilla wanted to be more "fashionate". Great job guys. Great job. I guess this another thing we can thank the Chrome team for.
  - thaumaturgy 15y ago
    Yep. Have an upvote from a fellow proper versioning devotee who's ranted about this recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598360 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598360
  - carussell 15y ago
    > This is Firefox 4.1 at best, but released as Firefox 5 with all the needless addon breaking headaches that will bring Point releases in the past have broken extension compatibility, so asking that it be 4.1 instead of 5 wouldn't necessarily have the kinds of tangible benefits that you seem to think it would.
mbrubeck 15y ago
You can also use this extension to enable add-ons in new versions and tell the developer (and Mozilla) whether they need to be fixed or not: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibilit...
- atacrawl 15y ago
  Done and done. Thank you sir!
listic 15y ago
Of the add-ons I used to have only 1 (RDS Bar) is not supporting FF 5. But, that's in addition to a couple that don't support FF4 yet.
megaman821 15y ago
Weird, I am actively using it right now with FF5.

windsurfer 15y ago

You can probably hack the extension to support FF5. There haven't been too many changes that should affect this.

fishtastic 15y ago
I found a way to do this in XP. (Vista or 7 should be similar) 1. Open "Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\extensions 2. Find the folder for the unsupported extension, there should be a file called install.rdf inside. 3. Open the file and change the <em:maxVersion> to 5.*. Might have missed something, but that did the trick for me.
trezor 15y ago
You can probably hack the extension to support FF5. There haven't been too many changes that should affect this. And hence the stupidity in adopting Chrome-style meaningless major version-numbers when what is released is only a minor update. I know the IT industry is highly fashion-driven, but that doesn't mean following fashions doesn't have drawbacks. This is Firefox 4.1 at best, but released as Firefox 5 with all the needless addon breaking headaches that will bring, just because Mozilla wanted to be more "fashionate". Great job guys. Great job. I guess this another thing we can thank the Chrome team for.
- thaumaturgy 15y ago
  Yep. Have an upvote from a fellow proper versioning devotee who's ranted about this recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598360 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598360
- carussell 15y ago
  > This is Firefox 4.1 at best, but released as Firefox 5 with all the needless addon breaking headaches that will bring Point releases in the past have broken extension compatibility, so asking that it be 4.1 instead of 5 wouldn't necessarily have the kinds of tangible benefits that you seem to think it would.

mbrubeck 15y ago

You can also use this extension to enable add-ons in new versions and tell the developer (and Mozilla) whether they need to be fixed or not: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibilit...

atacrawl 15y ago
Done and done. Thank you sir!

listic 15y ago

Of the add-ons I used to have only 1 (RDS Bar) is not supporting FF 5. But, that's in addition to a couple that don't support FF4 yet.

megaman821 15y ago

Weird, I am actively using it right now with FF5.