Comments on: How to Fix Broken Incompatible Extensions in Mozilla Firefox and Make Them Compatible With Newer Versions?

By: Snehil Sarkar

Snehil Sarkar — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:53:55 +0000

The method 3 worked for me and it worked

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:16:36 +0000

Thanks for the information.

It enabled me to fix the problem.

FF& TB were installed in my C:\ and B:\ drives of my dual boot Vista/Win7 OS;
some how they were installed together.
I had to uninstall all of the entries.
I found all of them listed in Revoinstall and uninstalled all of them.

Then I was able to install the new V9.0 of both FF & TB.

And now both of hem are working perfectly!

Thanks again,

Brian

By: VG

VG — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:00:26 +0000

^^ Try to completely uninstall Firefox using following tutorial:

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-completely-uninstall-remove-a-software-program-in-windows-without-using-3rd-party-software/

Then try to install latest version.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:38:13 +0000

I have a related unsolvable problem!

I am using W7 and FF V3.6.24.
I cannot upgrade--- FF- it is STUCK on V3.6.24!

When I try to install V8.0 a pop up is displayed stating:
"Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Firefox.
Do you want to reboot now?"

If I reboot, version 3.6.24 loads; if I don't reboot 3.6.24 is retained.
The best I have done is getting V 8.0 to load temoprarily.
But as soon as I restart FF, V3.6.24 returns.

Does anyone have any idea how to get out of this endless cycle.

Thanks

Brian

By: macpro622776

macpro622776 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:32:22 +0000

Thanks I'll give it a go.

By: VG

VG — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:30:15 +0000

^^ You can delete the entries by editing prefs.js file:

http://www.askvg.com/list-of-files-that-can-be-hacked-to-configure-firefox/

By: macpro622776

macpro622776 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:41:09 +0000

VG is there a way to delete about:config entries? I used string instead of boolean by accident, but I can't delete them!

By: darkprop

darkprop — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:58:13 +0000

for nightly builds set boolean "extensions.checkCompatibility.Nightly"

By: VG

VG — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:07:40 +0000

Thanks guys. Added. :)

By: carbonize

carbonize — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:37:39 +0000

I'm with Archy. The easiest way is to install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter which automatically disables the compatibility check and lets you report that an add on is working. Would love to know why thi s has yet to be added to the main article.