Firefox update hosed my No Squint

November 13, 2008 8:52 AM

[Firefox Filter] The latest Firefox update seems to have hosed my No Squint add on. How to repair?

I rely heavily on the No Squint add on. Unfortunately, when I updated to Firefox 3.0.4 today, No Squint stopped working. In fact, trying to manage the add on from the Options window causes the window to freeze.

Is there any way I can revert to the previous version of Firefox, preferably without having to re-do everything?

Thanks

posted by mikeand1 to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

OK, never mind -- I found an old version at Hippo, and amazingly, re-installing it kept all my old No Squint settings, bookmarks, etc.

Phew...

Anyway, warning to other No Squint users, don't bother updating yet.
posted by mikeand1 at 9:04 AM on November 13, 2008

Or, you can crack into the extension itself and change the maxversion. I usually do something really high like 9 (with the whole point being that it'll work when FireFox updates again).
posted by theichibun at 10:54 AM on November 13, 2008

In general, for extensions that aren't up to date yet (or ever will be), you can go to about:config and add 'extensions.checkCompatibility' as a boolean value set to false.
posted by hungrysquirrels at 11:34 AM on November 13, 2008