Saturday, December 5, 2009

Firefox 3.6 beta 4

I love to use Firefox as a portable browser. It helps me carry my settings, forms, passwords etc stored in a pen drive and use it on any computer.

Almost every 15 days - 1 month a new version of Firefox is released (3.5.0, 3.5.1 --- 3.5.5). The latest version is 3.5.5. Yesterday I downloaded Portable Firefox 3.6 beta 4. Whenever a new Firefox beta is released it doesn't support many add-on extensions which we have been using in old Firefox. Thus when we install beta it in our system, we see all the extensions are disabled saying that it's incompatible with new version and we left no choice than reverting back to stable version.

But this time there is an extension which will test the compatibility of all extensions with new beta release. Here we can check whether the extension is working in Firefox beta or not. In either case we can report its functionality to Firefox team.


In portable Firefox we just have to copy the 'Data' folder from older installation directory to new one and we can start using new beta with all preferences, themes and extensions of old Firefox.


Except a few, almost all extensions are working fine in my 3.6 beta 4. I found that CoolPreviews extension is not compatible with Firefox 3.6 Beta 4, so i reported it to Firefox and disabled the extension.


You can download the Add-on Compatibility Reporter 0.4 from the link below.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003

Also visit the following link to download some very useful Firefox extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/a52ffb1a-40c4-ee7c-4a7b-6cdd1bce7b49

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