June 3, 2011

Thunderbird Override Add-on Compatibility Checking Issues

We described in the Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 Released post how to override Add-on Compatibility Checking by adding and setting the following Boolean entry to FALSE in Thunderbird’s about:config: extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0b There has been some isolated reports that after restarting Thunderbird users see the message: Add-on compatibility checking is disabled. You may have incompatible add-ons in Thunderbird’s add-on manager. However, their add-ons are stuck in a Disabled status. This is caused by Thunderbird’s extension files become corrupted. Simple fix to get your add-ons working again: Close Thunderbird Locate your profile folder Delete the following files from your profile folder. Note: You…

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Facebook Page Updates

Due to us moving the blog to the new server (which we did because we moved to a more enhanced blog platform) updates to the Facebook Firefox Page were not getting posted. After much research on the WordPress side to find a plugin which would post both to the Facebook Page as well as our Twitter Feed we did not find any that would work reliably. However, we did find twitterfeed a free service that will feed your blog(s) to Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. Feeds from both this blog as was as The Email Mafia (Thunderbird) Blog…

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Plugin Check Coming to Firefox 6

A while back Mozilla introduced their Plugin Check site, which allowed users to check to see if the plugins they had installed within Firefox were the most current. This site also have the users the ability to easily get the updated versions of any plugins which were out-dated. The problem with this is a lot of Firefox users do not know about this tool as it is not currently an integrated part of Firefox. That is going to change with Firefox 6. A link for Plugin Check will be added in as a part of the add-ons manager within the…

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