{"id":111,"date":"2009-08-05T10:57:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demeringo.ovh.org\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T09:39:51","slug":"allow-not-compatible-extensions-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Allow not compatible extensions in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last version of firefox is out, but an extension that I use daily (QuickProxy) has not been updated yet. In fact, it should work but it is considered &#8216;not compatible&#8217; by firefox and thus, is automatically de-activated.<\/p>\n<p>The workaround (at your own risks !) is to bypass the security that enforces the compatibilty of extensions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open firefox and enter\u00a0 &#8220;about:config&#8221; in the URL bar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Right click in the page, then &#8220;new-&gt;boolean&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>enter &#8220;<strong>extensions.checkUpdateSecurity<\/strong>&#8221; as the preference name in the dialog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>set it&#8217;s value to false.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a similar entry called &#8220;<strong>extensions.checkCompatibility<\/strong>&#8221; set to false too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be careful when testing unsupported extensions, you may want to activate them one by one ! However do not hesitate to try, I have been able to succesfully use QuickProxy this way for more than a month&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries\">all the <em>about:config<\/em> options<\/a> of firefox.<\/p>\n<p><em>[EDIT:] The <strong>extensions.checkUpdateSecurity<\/strong>allow the download of extension without SSL, and is not related to firefox version check. It should remain to true <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Extensions.checkUpdateSecurity\">http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Extensions.checkUpdateSecurity<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last version of firefox is out, but an extension that I use daily (QuickProxy) has not been updated yet. In fact, it should work but it is considered &#8216;not compatible&#8217; by firefox and thus, is automatically de-activated. The workaround (at your own risks !) is to bypass the security that enforces the compatibilty of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Allow not compatible extensions in Firefox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WcEf-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}