I just updated my Firefox installation under Linux Mint 10, so now I’m apparently using Firefox 7. Can’t say that I have seen anything new from what is in the Firefox 5 beta, but whatever.
Because I updated Firefox it disabled all my add-ons, as usually. To get them working again in Firefox 7.0a1, follow these steps:
- Open a new tab.
- Type about:config in the address bar.
- Right click anywhere on the page and click on Boolean under New.
- Enter this as the preference name: extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly
- Click OK.
- Choose false and then click OK again.
- Restart your browser and all your add-ons should be runnable again.
Since we don’t have to type in the version number in the preference name any longer (extensions.checkCompatibility.XXX), I suppose that we won’t need to update this in future versions of Firefox.