extensions died

nasht · Post by **nasht** » September 7th, 2005, 8:43 pm

Hi,

I haven't updated deer park in a while and I haven't looked at the forums either.
Today I decided to update (using "check for updates") and now many of my extensions stopped working.
Almost like what happened in this previous topic : http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=306960

Did I miss something since then?
Is that normal? Can I fix it?

Thanks.

facted · Post by **facted** » September 7th, 2005, 8:46 pm

This is expected. Deer Park Beta is coming out tomorrow and the version # has been bumped. Extensions have written in the install.rdf file in the xpi archive, the max version # that they will work for. Many extensions work fine if you just alter the value in this file (to 1.4) and re-install using this new archive (with the modified install.rdf).

lastChance · Post by **lastChance** » September 7th, 2005, 11:40 pm

Please save yourself that work, though, if you're going to make your extensions compatible yourself, install Nightly Tester Tools 0.7 (note the version #). This will allow you to make the rest of your extensions compatible simply by right-clicking on them in the extensions list and choosing that option.

lastChance · Post by **lastChance** » September 7th, 2005, 11:43 pm

Oops, I guess it's up to 0.7.5 now

nasht · Post by **nasht** » September 8th, 2005, 7:21 am

cool
you made my day!

[EDIT: I just realized it means my day must be pretty boring... but it's only 7:20 am, I hope I'll have something better for today

]

popeye · Post by **popeye** » September 9th, 2005, 4:50 am

Can someone lead me to this tool? I downloaded 1.5 beta 1 and extensions don't work as well as NOIA theme. Help appreciated, thanks!

dickvl · Post by **dickvl** » September 9th, 2005, 5:02 am

see: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 17#1729017

sol · Post by **sol** » September 9th, 2005, 6:08 pm

Nightly tester tools has saved my day. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

gssq · Post by **gssq** » September 10th, 2005, 4:48 am

WOO! You mean I don't have to manually edit my XPIs anymore?! *hits self for not realising this*

Duke D · Post by **Duke D** » September 10th, 2005, 4:56 am

Heh I find editing them manually is more fun, I mean i will install the extension, but not right now, ill probably use it when its a bit more stable

Thanks for the link tho im gonna bookmark it for later

pikaunforgiven · September 10th, 2005, 12:46 pm

i too edit the files manually since im used to doing it, but i do have the nightly tester tools installed for the copy build id functionality. would kinda be nice if the override was built into firefox instead of as an extension, but im sure that might cause more potential problems than it solves unfortunately.

Mouse_103 · Post by **Mouse_103** » September 11th, 2005, 12:00 pm

Thank you. I alaways had to edit extenison files lol

Recall · Post by **Recall** » September 11th, 2005, 12:05 pm

If you use the latest dev version of MrTech local install it will make them all compatible at the same time.