On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM, David Bendit <
DarkElf109@ibendit.com> wrote:
> Dazed_75 wrote:
>>
>> Heck, one of the fixes I saw was how to disable firefox's version
>> checking so the old add-ons (or many of them) will still work. Sounds
>> like a broken product to me -- or should I say a broken improvement.
>> IOW, the version checking is important but to force add-ons which
>> actually still work with the new software to not be usable is a wrong
>> solution.
>
> The same thing happened when version 2 came out. It's because there's a
> setting in the internal extensions configurations which gives a range of
> working versions. If you try to install the extension with a newer or older
> version, it won't let you. Really, you should be blaming the extension
> developers, not the Firefox team, for this problem, as they've had time to
> test and update their extensions for the new version.
>
> -David
>
Actually, I am not "blaming" anyone. I simply won't use it until it
is stable AND works with googlesync. Heck, if I was going to blame
anyone if would be ubuntu/Canonical for including beta software in an
LTS release. Generally a poor decision IMHO.
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