Thanks to my good buddy Daniel for pointing out the change in Firefox 3.6.

Pay special attention to the Firefox version string, as we’ll need that later.

Now we’ll be prompted to enter the preference name.

How To Force Extension Compatibility with Firefox 3.6+

So if you were testing out Firefox 3.8 Alpha, you’d use extensions.checkCompatibility.3.8a as the preference name.

Yeah, that wasn’t the simplest thing.

On the next dialog, just choose “false” and kill the dialog.

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You should now see the value in the list if you filter for it.

And your extensions should now install.

If they don’t, then you probably put the wrong version into the preference name.

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Definitely a very useful tip, and one that I suspect I’ll be using all the time.

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