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

[Ric Moore]

On 02/05/2012 11:18 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 06/02/12 02:25, 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.
>> OK, I just checked again and FF installed today's version of Tab
>> Utilities with no problems. But I'm still perplexed about being
>> unable to force it.
>
>
> Ah, such things are always sent to test our level of perplexity......
>
> I stopped being perplexed years ago. There is life beyond your keyboard
> you know.....

Then why do I go through withdrawal when the system crashes??
"Hey man, can ya let me hold a dolla?" <shakes> <twitches> :) Ric