Mozilla Firefox v1.5 Released
I’m a huge fan of Mozilla Foundation and their products. So it’ not unusual for me to immediately have the latest stable version of Firefox and Thunderbird not to mention alpha/beta versions. Unfortunately Firefox v1.5 is the first version I’ve installed and immediately afterwards down graded to the previously stable final release (v1.07). Don’t get me wrong the bug fixes, new features and other imrpovements are great. However more then 50% of my Mozilla Firefox extensions and themes are no longer compatible nor could it find updates to fix the incompatibility problem. There was a few exceptions of extensions that did work, which I have listed below. I even went out to search for updates manually for Firefox v1.5 for my extensions and themes and I came up empty. I realize these extensions and themes are independant however I use a lot of them on a daily bases and can not go without them. In my case I could have survived if Chatzilla and Zhluk.com DevBoi extensions worked.
I was very impressed with the seemless and trouble fee upgrade to Firefox v1.5. Unfortunatly when I down graded something messed up causing user control popups and links not to function normally. I ended up having to uninstall Firefox (excluding my profile) and re-install from scratch. I hope to see the extesions updated soon so I can enjoy the benefits of Firefox v1.5.
At this point I would recommend to all users thinking of upgrading to Firefox v1.5 to check to see if the extensions and themes important to you work in Firefox v1.5 before upgrading. If you do upgrade of course make sure to do a backup of your critical files including creating a list of extensions/themes/plugins/search engines. I’m not aware of an extension that will create a list of all of those but there is one extension that can handle creating a list of extensions and themes, InfoLister.
My Installed Compatible Firefox v1.5 Extensions
- All-In-One Sidebar 0.5.6
- BugMeNot 0.8
- Forecastfox 0.8.2.4
- Html Validator 0.7.6
- IE Tab 1.0.6
- IE View 1.2.7
- Image Zoom 0.2.1
- InfoLister 0.8.2 (was fixed by updating)
- Sage 1.3.6
- SpellBound 0.7.3
- Web Developer 0.9.4
My Installed Incompatible Firefox v1.5 Extensions
- Afterglow ToolbarAdjuster 0.3
- ChatZilla 0.9.68a
- fireFTP 0.88.3
- jybe 2.0
- Live HTTP Headers 0.10
- Mozilla SpellCheck Libraries 0.9.1.0
- SpoofStick 1.05
- Tab Mix 0.2.2.3
- Zend Studio Toolbar 1.0.7
- DevBoi 0.2.6
My Installed Incompatible Firefox v1.5 Themes
December 14th, 2005 at 6:49 am
Hello, correct URL for DevBoi is: http://devboi.mozdev.org/, but there’s a new version of DevBoi (0.5.1 for Firefox 1.5) available in beta at: http://www.martincohen.info/products/devboi/
December 14th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
Thank you Martin for the correct URL. The URL I published was the one the extension was reporting. Oh great to hear that it works in Firefox v1.5 now. I believe Chatzilla now works as well. I’ll have to look at seeing if I can make the move to Firefox v1.5 now.