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One of my favorite features of Firefox v1.5 is that when you are prompted to upgrade, you are given the option to see what extensions will break due to the upgrade! What a fantastic feature — yet one that has caused me to delay my 1.5.0.1 upgrade. (security fixes) One extension in particular — the Googlebar extension, an even better Google toolbar than Google’s own extension — would not work after the update. Unfortunately, that is probably the most actively used extension I have! Fortunately, there is a solution. (also, Googlebar has since released an updated version that fixed the problem in the first place, but that still leaves me with a few extensions that won’t work after the upgrade)

Evilsoft.org has a good rundown of how to edit a Firefox configuration file in order to restore extensions caused by minor updates.

Notes:
1) don’t try this with major updates, like a 1.5 -> 2.0 updates, and

2) pay attention to the author’s note about using a text editor, not a word processor, to edit the configuration file. I recommend either Edit Pad Pro (not free) or Notepad (free) for pure text editing.

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