How To Bypass Firefox 4 Beta’s Incompatible Add-on Error and use them anyway

Firefox 4 beta is out but you can't use your favorite add-ons yet because most of add-ons have not been updated. this tutorial will tell you how you can still use them.

1. The Easy and Safe way.

Download the extension named add-on compatibility reporter 0.5 from here.
This will enable add-ons . You can also help Mozilla by reporting which add-on still works and which need attention.






2. The hack

Basically what you need to do is:
 - Go to about:config (enter in browser bar)
 - Add the key ( rightclick, new key") "extensions.checkCompatibility" (=>boolean)
 - set to "false" by clicking on it
 - restart firefox

for more info on this go here.

Important Note: Most of the add-ons will work smoothly, but few like Greasemonkey and fast youtube downloader can make your browser unstable by opening endless windows or by showing extra big status-bar. so its better to disable them and hope that they will be updated soon by their respective owners.

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