On the Firefox 2.0 beta, extensions and compatibility

Having Tab Mix Plus enabled on my installation broke the address bar so it wouldn't launch any URL I typed into it. I'm having to learn to live without it for the time being. It's hard to make it from day to day, but somehow I'll get by.

#6: I obviously didn't really want to do a clean wipe just to get a Windows partition installed, but Boot Camp told me so. I've installed and uninstalled BC a couple times, and I've partitioned my drive once or twice poking around with trying to get previous Vista versions to install. This time around, BC told me I *had* to reinstall Mac OS X in order to be able to partition the drive, and since I was almost due for a cleanout - we install a lot of crap in the name of TUAW :) - I figured it was good a time as any.

You wiped you HD to install Vista, I didn't.

Just a quick comment, There is an extension called
Mr Tech's Local Install, which is much more powerful than what Nightly Tester Tools offers, I use it, as well as many other Firefox 2.0 users. I would suggest you check it out, it also incorporates a alot of extension saving features found in many other extensions you may have installed, It will inform you of this and offer to uninstall these other extensions which are no longer required.

Here's the site and install page:

http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/

Cheers!

I have backed up all the stuff before I wiped the system clean. I installed Firefox 2 the first time and install the tester tool and it can make the older addons compatible with no problem.

THIS IS AWESOME! now all my extension, well except tab mix plus, work with beta 2!!!

My point is that this is not new, even for the average Firefox user. It's not something introduced by version 2 but has had to be dealt with by all Firefox users who have extensions installed.

#1: This post isn't exactly meant for the 1337 h4x0rs who've been tinkering with this stuff since the Firefox 0.1 pre-alpha days. It's geared towards a wider audience who might recently have become more interested in playing with what's new in Firefox, but didn't know how to transition easily.

No offense but this is not new for FF2, it's an issue that's been with us since before 1.0. Several other ad-ons, most prominently MR Tech Local Install, include the functionality to update max version.