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Anyone using the Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer extension will be disappointed as I am to discover that it doesn't work with FF5.

EDIT: Luckily, I had a moment of intelligence and copied FF4 before installing FF5, so I would recommend doing that if you use S3Fox with any regularity.



You can also use this extension to enable add-ons in new versions and tell the developer (and Mozilla) whether they need to be fixed or not:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibilit...


Done and done. Thank you sir!


You can probably hack the extension to support FF5. There haven't been too many changes that should affect this.


I found a way to do this in XP. (Vista or 7 should be similar)

1. Open "Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\extensions

2. Find the folder for the unsupported extension, there should be a file called install.rdf inside.

3. Open the file and change the <em:maxVersion> to 5.*.

Might have missed something, but that did the trick for me.


You can probably hack the extension to support FF5. There haven't been too many changes that should affect this.

And hence the stupidity in adopting Chrome-style meaningless major version-numbers when what is released is only a minor update. I know the IT industry is highly fashion-driven, but that doesn't mean following fashions doesn't have drawbacks.

This is Firefox 4.1 at best, but released as Firefox 5 with all the needless addon breaking headaches that will bring, just because Mozilla wanted to be more "fashionate". Great job guys. Great job.

I guess this another thing we can thank the Chrome team for.


> This is Firefox 4.1 at best, but released as Firefox 5 with all the needless addon breaking headaches that will bring

Point releases in the past have broken extension compatibility, so asking that it be 4.1 instead of 5 wouldn't necessarily have the kinds of tangible benefits that you seem to think it would.


Yep. Have an upvote from a fellow proper versioning devotee who's ranted about this recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598360


Of the add-ons I used to have only 1 (RDS Bar) is not supporting FF 5. But, that's in addition to a couple that don't support FF4 yet.


Weird, I am actively using it right now with FF5.




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