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

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/02/12 02:10, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2012-02-04, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> 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.
> Is this extension *genuinely* incompatible with FF 10.0?

If it don't woik with 10.0 then it must be "genuinely" incompatible. At 
least that's my thinking.

> (Funny sig, BTW.)

And ever SO true! :-D

BC

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