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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.