398440 - user should be able to specify 'ignore FF version requirement' for specific extensions

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 258062

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, enhancement)

Description

[Ray Kiddy]

This would just be a valuable tool in the tool box. Say I update from 2.0.0.6 to 2.0.0.7. Some number of extensions I have are incompatible. I should be able to go through the list and say 'Use this extension anyway."

It is my copy of FF after all. If the extension author thinks there might be a problem, or perhaps cannot be bothered to update the extension, I could decide I an willing to take that risk. Should there be a warning? Yes, but it should be possible.

I am tempted to not say this is an enhancement. Is every 'do the right thing' bug is an enhancement request. Well, it is not something we intended to do and that we did wrong. It is something that should be intended. So, I guess I will mark it as an enhancement.

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

IMHO this is much more than "just" an enhancement (but I don't have the privilege to change the bug severity). The alternative is to set extensions.checkCompatibility to false, thus enabling all extensions across the board regardless of maxVersion, then leave it to the user to manually disable those which he's not willing to take the risk of using (if he can find the "Disable" button). Such an alternative is IMHO potentially dangerous, more so than disabling extensions according to {min|max}Version but with a possibility to override it for specific individual extensions.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

The Nightly Tester Tools (see <http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly>) provide this opportunity for testers, but it would be quite dangerous to give this to regular users.