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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by bstadil on Monday March 24, 2008 @03:28PM (#144902)
The browser might be ready but the add-ins are not. I just installed Unbuntu 8.04 Hardy and the FF v3 beta 4 worked great, however 70% of my add-ins didn't work. Including things like Filter-set G (must for add blocking), Tab Mix Plus and FoxMark book mark Synchroniser, CustomizeGoogle. Things I can't live without. SO I went back to FF2. By the way you can have both installed and only minor problems using them with same settings. Don't launch at same time though
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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by papersmith on Monday March 24, 2008 @03:36PM (#144914)
Install Mr. Tech Toolkit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/421

Under "tools" in the extensions manager, there will be an option "make all compatible". It'll disable the compatibility checks. Works great for me so far.

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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by illicium on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:22PM (#144960)
Alternatively, you can add a boolean "extensions.checkCompatibility" field in about:config and set it to false.
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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by bstadil on Monday March 24, 2008 @09:38PM (#145305)
I did that but it somewhat defeats the purpose of the whole thing. The problem is that some of the add-ins do NOT work with the beta version so overwriting the check is kind of an exercise in futility
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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by papersmith on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:28PM (#144967)
Much more elegant solution, modded up! :)
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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by bstadil on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:05PM (#144938)
It didn't work. Not compatible with version beta 4
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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by papersmith on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:13PM (#144946)
Actually, try this instead:

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

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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by papersmith on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:09PM (#144943)
Hmm, I must've installed it before the upgrade.

See if you can install it on firefox 2, disable compatibility checks, then open firefox 3.

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Re:Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time by bstadil on Monday March 24, 2008 @04:00PM (#144935)
Thanks I will try that
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