Firefox 1.5 Extensions

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Saxman

I have just installed the latest version of Firefox (1.5). The
installation was seamless, except that 4 of my extensions went AWOL.
However, when I try to re-install them, I get silly messages regarding
edit/options. I always had this option disabled in the older version for
security, but enabled it when updating extensions.

I am totally at loss as regards the new version. Is anybody else having
problems?

How do I allow extension installations in the new version?
 
I have just installed the latest version of Firefox (1.5). The
installation was seamless, except that 4 of my extensions went AWOL.
However, when I try to re-install them, I get silly messages regarding
edit/options. I always had this option disabled in the older version for
security, but enabled it when updating extensions.

I am totally at loss as regards the new version. Is anybody else having
problems?

How do I allow extension installations in the new version?
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Get the extension Nightly Updates. Works 90+% percent of the
time.


Paul
 
Saxman said:
I have just installed the latest version of Firefox (1.5). The
installation was seamless, except that 4 of my extensions went AWOL.
However, when I try to re-install them, I get silly messages regarding
edit/options. I always had this option disabled in the older version for
security, but enabled it when updating extensions.

I am totally at loss as regards the new version. Is anybody else having
problems?

How do I allow extension installations in the new version?
Click to expand...

Yes, I had exactly the same problem. You must not have read the release
notes like I didn't! I've been told they address this issue in there.
Apparantly, you have to have set you old version to allow this option
before uninstalling otherwise it won't work correctly in the new version.

I had to blow away all my profiles and do a completely fresh install of
1.5 to get it to work. I didn't mind this much as I don't have that
many bookmarks etc.

Better check in at the FF forums for a better fix than this if you'd
like to hang onto a bunch of profile settings.

Warren
 
Yes, I had exactly the same problem. You must not have read the release
notes like I didn't! I've been told they address this issue in there.
Apparantly, you have to have set you old version to allow this option
before uninstalling otherwise it won't work correctly in the new version.
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This g=has never been a problem in the past with upgrades.
 
Apparantly, you have to have set you old version to allow this option
before uninstalling otherwise it won't work correctly in the new version.

I had to blow away all my profiles and do a completely fresh install of
1.5 to get it to work. I didn't mind this much as I don't have that
many bookmarks etc.
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How did you do that? I did like Firefox for its seamless re-installs. I'm
beginning to wonder.........
 
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This g=has never been a problem in the past with upgrades.
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Correct, but the release notes do mention this issue. I'll be waiting a few
weeks to see what comes out of the woodwork :-)

Adam Piggott,
Proprietor,
Proactive Services (Computing)
http://www.proactiveservices.co.uk/
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Onedayflyer said:
Saxman wrote on 30-11-2005:

All my extensions are working fine since upgrading. (even Adblock)
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Adblock Plus or the earlier version?

As I understand, we must totally uninstall Adblock, upgrade FF, then install
Adblock Plus.

It would be nice if I could keep all my additions and customizations with
this newest upgrade, but it appears not.
I just read that IE has 85% of the browser market and it's no wonder why.
Unless one enjoys uninstalling/reinstalling, FF is beginning to look to me
like a geek-only browser. I've had nagging problems with it that do NOT get
answered on the FF forum. Not in plain english, anyway.
 
Onedayflyer wrote:
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It would be nice if I could keep all my additions and customizations with
this newest upgrade, but it appears not.
I just read that IE has 85% of the browser market and it's no wonder why.
Unless one enjoys uninstalling/reinstalling, FF is beginning to look to me
like a geek-only browser. I've had nagging problems with it that do NOT get
answered on the FF forum. Not in plain english, anyway.
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I have to agree to an extent. However, I got this from a kind person on
the Mozilla group and it worked for me (will allow extensions to be
installed).

"The preference for enabling/disabling extension installation was removed
from the GUI in 1.5. Go to about:config (type it in the location bar), type
"xpi" in the filter box (without the quotes, of course) and then
double-click the xpinstall.enabled preference to set it to true."

I also received this from a kind gentleman:-

"I went through the same experience. The updates will not work from the
download section. What I did was go to each individual extension, then
right clicked on it to go to the authors web site. In most cases updates
for 1.5x were there and I manually did it. In other cases updates had not
been made to work with 1.5. And then I found a nifty extension here
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/buildid/nightly.html

This forces the extensions to be recognized by 1.5. It worked like a charm
and I got all my extensions working except calendar. I must warn you the
extension forces ALL to work. I did not see an option to select which the
extension to force. I may have missed it. Any way after I restarted FF
there was some gibberish and I was able to isolate it to the calendar and
removed that extension and it worked ok from there. So overall I am
reasonably happy."
 
Saxman said:
I have to agree to an extent. However, I got this from a kind person
on
the Mozilla group and it worked for me (will allow extensions to be
installed).

"The preference for enabling/disabling extension installation was
removed from the GUI in 1.5. Go to about:config (type it in the
location bar), type "xpi" in the filter box (without the quotes, of
course) and then
double-click the xpinstall.enabled preference to set it to true."

I also received this from a kind gentleman:-

"I went through the same experience. The updates will not work from
the download section. What I did was go to each individual extension,
then
right clicked on it to go to the authors web site. In most cases
updates
for 1.5x were there and I manually did it. In other cases updates had
not been made to work with 1.5. And then I found a nifty extension
here
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/buildid/nightly.html

This forces the extensions to be recognized by 1.5. It worked like a
charm and I got all my extensions working except calendar. I must
warn you the extension forces ALL to work. I did not see an option to
select which the extension to force. I may have missed it. Any way
after I restarted FF
there was some gibberish and I was able to isolate it to the calendar
and removed that extension and it worked ok from there. So overall I
am reasonably happy."
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Thanks, I confess what I'm hoping for is FF to do it's thing without me
having to do much this time. The initial version, fine, I was willing, but
the endless FF puzzles have me considering dumping it entirely. ;
Plus---arghh...that Mozilla FF forum just a complete mess.
I'll keep reading here, maybe I'll get brave and upgrade.
 
You have to wait until your favourite extensions are made compatible
with 1.5 That's all.
 
Lyn said:
Thanks, I confess what I'm hoping for is FF to do it's thing
without me having to do much this time. The initial version,
fine, I was willing, but the endless FF puzzles have me
considering dumping it entirely. ; Plus---arghh...that Mozilla FF
forum just a complete mess. I'll keep reading here, maybe I'll get
brave and upgrade.
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You said in another post you would be upgrading in a week or so -- if
you wait a week or two, hopefully your extensions will have been
updated, so you won't have much puzzling to do. And in the meantime,
Firefox 1.0.7 still works pretty well.

I agree with you about the webforum. You might try the Firefox
newsgroup on the Netscape server.

<s
Hopefully that link will take you there in OE, but I can't be sure.
News links are tricky.
 

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