How to Use Older Extensions and Themes With Newer Versions of Firefox

**topgear** · 03-06-2008, 01:58 PM

If you want to use Extensions & themes that are not insatalling on newer versions of

firefox then follow these steps :

> Open Firefox.

> on the address bar type “about:config” without the quotes.

> create a new Boolean key aka preference & name it “extensions.checkCompatibility”

without the quotes.

> set the value of this newly created key aka preference at false.

Restart Firefox.

After this tweak your Firefox Addon Manager window should look like this.

> Now use any old Extensions and themes that was not installing before.

Note I’ve used Firefox 2.0.0.12 & Firefox Beta 3.0.b3 for this purpose. Have not tested

it on
latest firefox 3 beta. So guys please test it on that & let me know since my priority

target
of this tute is firefox 3 .

Note : All plugins & themes will not work flawlessly in this way since the browser
change it’s functionality with every major releases. But they will install.
Give them a shot if you’re interested.

A quality tutorial by topgear - topspeed

Source : http://topgeartopspeed.wordpress.com...ns-of-firefox/

For Install Firefox Themes Offline follow this thread.

Install Firefox Themes Offline

coolpcguy · 03-06-2008, 02:06 PM

Do this at your own risk. had to recreate my Firefox profile as one extesnion caused FF to go into a infinte loop of crashes when I tried this > 1 month ago