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Extensions?

Posted Jul 17, 2008 4:47 UTC (Thu) by midg3t (guest, #30998)
In reply to: They ARE supporting it by qg6te2
Parent article: Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released

The way Firefox extensions work (AFAIK) is that they have to be whitelisted as "works with version X" so a major upgrade like 1.5 to 2.0 would break every extension. This is not ideal.

Users can go and upgrade the extensions on the system and in their profiles, but that is a long, long way from being a drop-in replacement with no side effects.


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