Add-on not being compatible with latest releases of Firefox

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Thu Aug 18 06:45:50 UTC 2011


On 18 August 2011 07:18, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> For at least a couple of weeks now I have been running Firefox 8.x[1] and
> found that I lost the use of at least 4 extensions because they were
> incompatible with 8.x. Although annoyed, I didn't worry too much because the
> main security extensions were still working.
>
> This morning, Firefox got upgraded to version 9 - and I lost a couple more
> extensions and also the theme (Nautipolis, which I have been using for
> years).
>
> Now, this got me "stirred up" :-) , and so I went looking for a butt to
> kick.
>

Kick your own.

> [1] I have the Nightly direct from the Mozilla site installed.
>

You're running nightly, this is expected behaviour. If you want
bleeding edge developer releases (nightly) then you need to reset your
expectations accordingly. If you want stability, run a stable version
of Firefox, not Nightly, Aurora or Beta.

https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2011/04/07/new-development-channels-and-repositories-for-rapid-releases/
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-firefox-rapid-releases/

Al.




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