Jesper, Thank you! That enabled me to install it in 3.1. In my very brief testing, it has worked. We'll see if I run into any other problems....
dbr Jesper Hertel wrote: > Hi David, > > You can try to use the current version of Gmarks and see if it works > in Firefox 3.1 by doing the following. I have often done this with > unupdated extensions with great success. It does, however, require a > bit of technical knowledge that I hope you have. Before doing it, read > it through and be sure you know how to do each step: > > 1. Download gmarks-0.9.9-fx.xpi > > <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/27831/gmarks-0.9.9-fx.xpi>. > 2. Rename it to gmarks-0.9.9-fx.zip - it is actually a zip file. > Note that this cannot be done in Windows with the default > settings. See > http://www.mediacollege.com/microsoft/windows/extension-change.html > if you need instructions. > 3. Unpack the files in the zip file to a folder. > 4. In the unpacked folder, open the file install.rdf in a text editor. > 5. In the line containing em:maxVersion="3.0pre", change "3.0pre" > to "3.1". > 6. Save the file. > 7. Pack the unpacked folder again into a zip file. > 8. Rename the new zip file to gmarks-0.9.9-fx-3.1.xpi or whatever > ending in ".xpi". Note that this also cannot be done in Windows > with the default settings. > 9. Drag the new .xpi file to the Firefox window. > 10. Follow the installation instructions. > > Note, however, that there is no guarantee whatsoever that the > extension works in 3.1! It is your own responsibility to test it and > take any consequences. My little trick just allows the 3.0 version to > be installed in Firefox 3.1. > > Jesper > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 21:26, dbr <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > OK - I'm certainly looking forward to it. 3.1 is noticeably faster > than 3.0, and gmarks is the only thing I really need before moving to > 3.1 for most of my work. I know that some times the only change > needed is to update a parameter of a conditional statement (say, from > 3.0 to 3.1), and was hoping that this would be similar. > > At any rate, school is always important - don't sacrifice school for > this. > > Thanks! > > David > > On Oct 25, 2:03 pm, "John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I plan on updating it when I can, maybe in a week or two. > Schools is more > > important right now. Fortunately it doesn't look like there will > need to be > > many (if any) significant changes. > > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, dbr <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > Thank you for writing Gmarks! I have come to depend on it pretty > > > heavily. > > > > > Firefox 3.1Beta is out, and Gmarks does not yet support it. > When do > > > you anticipate an update to support FF-3.1? Are extensive changes > > > required? > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > David > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GMarks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GMarks?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
