Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 Beta 5

Marcin Kasperski Marcin.Kasperski at softax.com.pl
Mon May 5 17:10:10 UTC 2008


> FF2 to FF3 is a dramatic change and I doubt any extensions suitable
> for FF2 would work for FF3.  Some may be lucky, but others obviously
> not...

Depends what those extensions do and using which APIs.. In quite a few
cases this is a matter of ... changing the declared version
compatibility and resolving the secure updates problem in a way or
another

Here are the gory details:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_3

PS Yes, I wrote and maintain some FF extension...

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