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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Google Transliteration (Formerly Google Indic Transliteration)

Type: FireFox web browser Add-on

This is a FireFox extension that allows user to write in Indic language by transliteration with help of English.

Allows user to type in Indian Languages. Currently supports Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Arabic, Marathi, Bengali, Nepali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu & Persian on any textarea and input box inside the page.

Very usefull on Gtalk and Facebook for Chat in indian languages.
Also you can write any text online in indic languages, Like in your blog etc.
Very Useful and easy to use.

Short Cut Key: Use Ctrl+G to change between chosen language and English

Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8731