Support for Firefox 4?

[joetron2030]

Has anyone tried using the 0.9.3 version of deepest sender with FF4 on Windows 7 (64-bit). Curious to know if others have tried and what their experience has been so far. I haven't yet. I am hoping there are some of you out there who are more courageous than I am. :)

Comments

[jtmulc]

Installing 4.0 now on 7 64 bit, and Firefox is disabling it. You can probably get around it by editing the xpi file, but there will probably be a new version soon tested on 4.

[jim_smith]

Deepest Sender 0.9.3 won't natively work in Firefox 4 because it tells Firefox that it's only supported up to 3.6.*.

The Add-On Compatibility Reporter add-on lets you tell Firefox to disregard the version support info in your add-ons. This is ostensibly to let you check to see if your add-ons are working properly in a beta, but as a bonus you can use it to run DS without waiting for an official release or hacking into the XPI file.

So I've been running DS 0.9.3 with Firefox 4 for months without much trouble, on both 32-bit WinXP and 64-bit Win7. The context menus seem to be transparent for some reason, but it's good enough that I can go ahead and use FF4 without waiting for DS to update.

[garpu]

I upgraded to firefox 4 last night. (Still not convinced I like it.)

Got that deepest sender was disabled, so I tried changing the version number according to the instructions here, but when I try to install the new addon, I get an error that it's corrupted.

No problem, I thought. I'll install the Add-On Compatibility Reporter addon and still run it. Nope. I uninstalled deepest sender, and I can't reinstall it, because of the version.

argh.

[garpu]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updating_extensions#Completely_disabling_the_compatibility_check

There's what finally worked for me.

[joetron2030]

Thanks to everyone for the comments! I'm going to wait on FF4 for now in any case so hopefully by the time I'm ready, DS will be ready, too.