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==Background==
==Background==
This preference allows disabling of extension compatibility checking. This is useful if you are using alpha, beta or nightly (development) builds which Add-on authors are not yet supporting.
This preference allows disabling of extension compatibility checking. This is useful if you are using alpha, beta or nightly (development) builds which Add-on authors do not yet support.


==Possible values and their effects==
==Possible values and their effects==
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* This preference does not exist by default.
* This preference does not exist by default.
* Installing an extension marked as incompatible with your application may cause your application to misfunction.
* Installing an extension marked as incompatible with your application may cause your application to misfunction.
==UI==
===Mozilla Firefox 2.0===
This preference can be toggled to true by clicking the button in the Add-ons Manager next to the “compatibility checking disabled” alert. (There is no way to set it back to false within the UI.)


==First checked in==
==First checked in==
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330895 2006-05-29 (trunk)/20060605 (MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH) by Rob Strong]
;Mozilla Firefox (trunk)
:[http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&file=extensions.js&branch=&root=/cvsroot&subdir=mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/content&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&rev1=1.92&rev2=1.93 2006-05-29 by Rob Strong]
;Mozilla Firefox (1.8 branch)
:[http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/content&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=extensions.js&rev1=1.72.2.19&rev2=1.72.2.20&root=/cvsroot 2006-06-05 by Rob Strong]


==Has an effect in==
==Has an effect in==
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==Related bugs==
==Related bugs==
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330895 Bug 330895 - Remove the use of the app.extensions.version pref]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330895 Bug 330895 - Remove the use of the app.extensions.version pref]
 
==Related preferences==
* [[app.extensions.version]]


[[Category:Preferences]]
[[Category:Preferences]]

Revision as of 17:51, 11 October 2006

Background

This preference allows disabling of extension compatibility checking. This is useful if you are using alpha, beta or nightly (development) builds which Add-on authors do not yet support.

Possible values and their effects

true

Check extension compatibility on install and update. (Default)

false

Do not check compatibility. Incompatible add-ons will be marked in the Add-ons Manager - its icon will have an exclamation mark over it and when the add-on is selected, the text "This extension is not compatible with Firefox 2.0" appears below the extension description. In addition, while the preference is set to false there will be an alert bar at the top of the Add-ons Manager saying that compatibility checking is disabled and that you may have incompatible add-ons, with a button to re-enable it.

Caveats

  • This preference does not exist by default.
  • Installing an extension marked as incompatible with your application may cause your application to misfunction.

UI

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

This preference can be toggled to true by clicking the button in the Add-ons Manager next to the “compatibility checking disabled” alert. (There is no way to set it back to false within the UI.)

First checked in

Mozilla Firefox (trunk)
2006-05-29 by Rob Strong
Mozilla Firefox (1.8 branch)
2006-06-05 by Rob Strong

Has an effect in

  • Firefox (all versions since 2.0b1)
  • Thunderbird (all versions since 2.0a1)

Related bugs

Related preferences