308031 - Firefox should allow user to continue using an outdated extension

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258062

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Trevan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 Firefox/1.4

What I am proposing is that when the user updates Firefox, the compatibility
checker should show which extensions are not compatible (it already does this)
and then allow the user to specify if they want an uncompatible extension to
work.  It could warn the user that this could cause Firefox to stop working, but
it will also allow the user to keep using old extensions that still work, just
their install.rdf file hasn't been updated.  This feature would give the user
more control over their browser.  The extension manager can still check for update.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258062 ***