On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 07:33:44AM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:50:23PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > >> git co -b firefox-5http://rhaalovely.net/git/mozilla-firefox > > > > > >> ^^^^^^ > > >> make that 'git clone' > > > > Landry, > > > > thanks for that. I am a git dummy but will get upto speed quickly. > > > > > > > I just installed firefox5 using the above instructions on 4.9 (June 6 > > > snapshot), i386. It all works fine, except for a couple of addons that are > > > not compatible with firefox5. > > > > as many others have said on the internets, just edit the string and > > bump the firefox version in the .xpi files for the addons in your > > mozilla profile folder. Firefox is at version 7 already, how can they > > expect volunteers to bump version strings every few weeks? > > Addons.mozilla.org will have a process to automatically check addons > compat, so the bump will be done mechanically in the install.rdf files.
And for the record, here are some details from a mozilla dev : http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2011/06/Why-do-Firefox-updates-break-add-ons Landry
