Several weeks ago I upgraded to the RC of Firefox 1.5 which basically disabled most of the extensions I had installed. I have been able to find upgrades to some of my extensions but two of my favorites, Spellbound and Minimize to Tray, haven’t been released as 1.5 compatible.
Today I saw a post on Lifehacker showing how to force extensions to work in Firefox 1.5.
Keep in mind the following is a hack and may cause Firefox to become unstable.
- At the location bar, enter: about:config. This will show you a list of Firefox internal preferences.
- Right-click on the list, select New > String
- Enter “app.extensions.version” (without quotes) for the preference name.
- Then, enter “1.0″ (without quotes) as the value for app.extensions.version.
- Restart Firefox 1.5, then enable those disabled Firefox extensions.
- Restart Firefox 1.5 again to active the extensions. Done.
I successfully reinstalled Spellbound but Minimize to Tray still won’t work. At least I can check my spelling now.
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You can get a version of Minimize to Tray that works with Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 at minimizetotray.mozdev.org. Grab the “trunk” version at the bottom of the page. I’ve had it working myself for several weeks, and it’s one of my favorite extensions. I love being about to keep Thunderbird open but out of the way.
Do you have the Google toolbar for Firefox installed? It has a spell checker; it’s similar to the spell checker in Gmail, but you can add words to your dictionary.
Kim, the Google Toolbar won’t work with the RC version of Firefox 1.5, at least that I can tell.