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Firefox 5 can already be downloaded from Mozilla’s FTP server

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Re: Firefox 5 can already be downloaded from Mozilla’s FTP server

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Post by encoderer »

ivanbernat wrote: post #3

Unfortunately, every add-on I need doesn't work with FF5 (same as it was with FF4), tried it last week with (FF5) beta.

When you create an extension you have to put a maxVersion in the install.rdf file. The right practice, of course, is to set this only as high as you've actually tested.

But the truth is, the DOM and XPCom APIs are pretty stable and most upgrades don't truly break an extension. And FF makes it quite easy to do a "version compatbility update" that doesn't require a new version and new deployment but a lot of app developers just don't do this as quickly as we'd like.

Long story short, you can open up that install.rdf in each extension and set it to 5.x and give it a try. Worst case scenario, you disable that extension from safemode if it crashes your browser. But that's unlikey IME.

Re: Firefox 5 can already be downloaded from Mozilla’s FTP server

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Post by thristian »

encoderer wrote: post #6
ivanbernat wrote: post #3

Unfortunately, every add-on I need doesn't work with FF5 (same as it was with FF4), tried it last week with (FF5) beta.

When you create an extension you have to put a maxVersion in the install.rdf file. The right practice, of course, is to set this only as high as you've actually tested. But the truth is, the DOM and XPCom APIs are pretty stable and most upgrades don't truly break an extension. And FF makes it quite easy to do a "version compatbility update" that doesn't require a new version and new deployment but a lot of app develo…

In fact, addons.mozilla.org automatically bumped the maxVersion field for extensions that didn't touch any of the APIs changed in Firefox 5. Later, they did the same trick for Firefox 6 (currently the Aurora branch). I'm running Aurora right now, and almost all of my extensions are marked as compatible.
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