Firefox 10 upgrade: can't force installation of Tab Utilities add-on

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Sat Feb 4 23:57:18 UTC 2012


On 05/02/12 07:55, Adam Funk wrote:
> I took the upgrade to Firefox 10 this morning&  have regretted it all
> day.  It declared the Tab Utilites add-on incompatible&  I have tried
> the following ways to make it suck it up:
>
> 1. about:config and set all extensions.checkCompatibility* to "false";
>     they were all false anyway;
>
> 2. add extensions.checkCompatibility.10.0 and
>     extensions.checkCompatibility.10.0a and set them to false;
>
> 3. unzip the xpi file, edit install.rdf to change the value of
>     <em:maxVersion>  to "99.9", zip it back up;
>
> 4. same as #3, but with "*" instead of "99.9".
>
> Every time, I get "Tab Utilities could not be installed because it is
> not compatible with Firefox 10.0".  This is the most difficult add-on
> problem I've seen yet --- even though FF 10 is supposed to be more
> tolerant of this.  Any other suggestions on how to make FF accept this
> add-on?

Yep. Wait until  the author of this extension updates it to be 
compatible with 10.0. He already has been asked to update it.

BC

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