On 05/02/12 16:41, Linda Walsh wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On 2/3/2012 9:06 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
I fully agree. Having two choices seems rational, and most of the plugin issues have gone away anyway by the time you get to 10.
---- By gone away, you mean their compatibility fell away during earlier releases, so by the time you get to 10, with nothing supported there is no pain in upgrading?
Or do you mean I can take my 3.6 profile and upgrade it to 10 and I shouldn't expect any compatibility problems?
I have been using Firefox since year dot. Right now I am running the latest 10.0 installed via Yast and of the 12 extensions I have, not to mention my preferred theme called Nautipolis, all are working perfectly. In another list one person was moaning, akin to yourself, that suddenly he cannot use a particular add-on now that he switched over to FF 10.0. Oh woe is him, and the gnashing of teeth! He has tried everything to get this extension working but, alas and alack, he is unable to get it work! Does anyone have a suggestion, he asked, as to how to get it working? I told him YES - just wait for the author of the extension to update it to work with 10.0 because he has already been asked to do. The add-ons, you must know, are written by third-parties, just like a lot of the stuff you install and use in openSUSE, and therefore they rely on their authors to keep them up-to-date with the current release of, say, Firefox or Thunderbird. If you are still stuck with FF 3.6 I am therefore not really surprised that you are having/have been having problems with extensions/add-ons as some of them have been incorporated into FF itself and are no longer required as add-ons. Moreover, some of the add-ons have alternatives so if the author of one of your favourite add-ons gets run over by a bus then there will most probably be another add-on, by a different author, to replace it. And if you haven't considered the possibility that an author of an add-on cannot be run over by a bus and can no longer maintain that add-on for your Firefox v3.6 then you shouldn't be doing what you are doing :-) . BC -- A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath. "Mum" he asked, "are these my brains?" "Not yet," she replied. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org