If you want to play with the Firefox betas, but don't want to break your existing exte io , there is an add-on available that can bring your existing exte io along for the 2.0 beta ride. Nightly Tester Tools is an add-on (exte io are being rebranded as 'add-o ' in the new Firefox) that brings a number of developer-related features to Firefox, but it does two fantastic things for regular end users like you and I: it can make *most* exte io /add-o work with versio of Firefox they weren't nece arily meant to, even new ones you want to i tall.Long story short: the way I understand it, Firefox add-o need to ecify which version of Firefox they're compatible with, in case there is version- ecific code they require to function. Most add-o , however, don't have that version- ecific code, so Nightly Tester Tools (basically eaking) futzes with add-on version lists so (ideally) more recent versio of Firefox - i.e. this shiny new 2.0 release - can use these add-o just fine. The one catch I've personally run into is that it seems Nightly Tester Tools needs to be i talled on a v1.5.x of Firefox in order to be able to work with v2.0 (ironic, i 't it?). I stumbled acro this because I recently wiped my MacBook Pro and rei talled Mac OS X (I needed to start from scratch to get that new version of Vista ru ing on my M ). Along with this fresh system, I tried i talling Nightly Tester Tools into a Firefox 2.0 beta, and it wouldn't budge. Tur out I had to degrade to 1.5.x, i tall Nightly Tester Tools, then bump up to 2.0, but YMMV.
I need to give a shout out to Download Squad, as it is they who first found this add-on which makes playing with Firefox betas so much sweeter.
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