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Is there a way to force Firefox 3.0 beta to load plugins that don't claim to support that version of the browser?

Asked by chaosrob (2219

) December 21st, 2007
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Specifically, Google Toolbar, Web Developer Toolbar and some smaller ones like Con Query and Text URLs

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Yeah, you can download the xpi locally and change the extension to .zip

Open that like you would with a normal zip archive. So now you have a folder. Inside that folder find the file called install.rdf and open that in a text editor. Don’t use Word, use something like Notepad.

In that file you will find the line:
<em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>

Change that to:
<em:maxVersion>3.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>

Save that and zip that back up. Change the zipped files extension back to a .xpi

Then you can double click that and firefox should install it.

Keep in mind that doing this is not recommended and could break stuff.

jrpowell (40562

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I would use johnpowell’s suggestion to install a copy of MR Tech Local Install xpi, it has a right click feature that lets you force-enable incompatible extensions.

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