Re: What is still to hope

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:04:52 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.multizilla
Organization The Mozdev Foundation - news server
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Marcelo wrote:
> Interviewed by CNN on 7/8/2009 07:21, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
> told the world:
> 
>>> But, right now... the Suiterunner build I found at the site refused to
>>> install in Seamonkey 2.0 beta 1. Too bad, some reviews I saw suggested
>>> that even unpolished, the beta is already better than 1.1
>> thats what I heard too.  Can you not bump up the max 
>> version?
> 
> 
> Well, some news. I didn't fiddle with the innards of the Multizilla XPI
> to change the maxversion, but I found out about the
> "extensions.checkCompatibility" trick in about:config. (See
> http://dotnetwizard.net/soft-apps/firefox-3-beta-4-disabling-extension-compatibility-check/
> 
> )
> So I disabled the compatibility check and had another run...
> 
> Results:
> 1. The about.config entry does not actually stop the version checking,
> only the version *enforcing.* Which is actually kind of nice -- if you
> open the Add-on manager, it will mark extensions as "not compatible" but
> will let them load anyway.
> 2. Multizilla installed, but it didn't seem to work. For instance, I
> couldn't open a new tab by right-clicking or control-clicking -- and the
> Multizilla toolbar buttons were dead. Couldn't even open the Multizilla
> preferences.
> 3. GoogleBox didn't install -- apparently the XPI is missing the new
> internal structure.
> 
> Marcelo

thanks for this news.  Sure doesn't sound hopeful. 
BTW: were you trying the version for SM 1.x or the 
version for SM 2?

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