How to Fix Incompatible Extensions Addons Mozilla Firefox

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Mozilla firefox is known as second world fastest and popular web browser after Google Chrome and frankly speaking it really deserves its ranking not just for providing faster web surfing experience but also for high level of web security and amazing support from the developers with regular time to time updates. As per the user experiences and tests it has been observed that mozilla firefox is the safest browser among all other popular browsers like Internet Explorer , Safari , Opera Mini etc and has got a huge list accounting for various popular Ad-dons and Extensions. Though no doubt regular updates adds several beneficial features to the previous versions but still some users hate these frequent updates and that’s all because of incompatibility extensions addons issue with newer versions of mozilla firefox. Therefore here in this article I am going to tell How to fix incompatible extensions addons mozilla firefox and make them work in newer versions of Mozilla Firefox.

How to fix Incompatible Extensions Addons Mozilla Firefox – Steps to Follow

It has been observed that after installing newer version of firefox or updating the firefox from old versions there arises incompatibility issues for most of the addons or extensions and because of this firefox by default disables those addons or extensions and they no longer works. So if you want to make these old extensions addons work in your new firefox then read the below guide on How to fix Incompatible Extensions Addons Mozilla Firefox.

Method – 1 : Add-on Compatibility Reporter

This is one of the best way to make your old addons work with newer installed or updated mozilla firefox versions and most importantly it is an official method from Mozilla firefox side. Add-on Compatibility Reporter is basically an additional addon launched officially by mozilla firefox developers specifically for Mozilla firefox that enables incompatible extensions and allowing you to report them to Mozilla.

How does Add-on Compatibility Reporter Works ?

After installing the ACR, you can report if the Firefox add-ons that you’re using are working properly. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn’t seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click ‘Report Issue’ next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla.

Get Add-on Compatibility Reporter

Method – 2 : Nightly Tester Tools

Nightly Tester tools is another great extension that you can install and use it on your firefox browser to make old addons work with your updated firefox the same way they were working in the previous versions of the application. You can simply download and install this extension and disable the Addon compatibility check which will allow old extensions addons to work without any issues.

Get Nightly Tester Tools for Firefox

Method – 3 : Manual Way

If you don’t want to follow the above suggested methods or if in case the above methods doesn’t work then this is the best way to fix incompatible extensions addons mozilla firefox.

Open Mozilla firefox and type about:config in URL address bar and confirm “I’ll be careful, I’ll promise”.

Here perform a right-click and select “New -> Boolean” and set its name to following

extensions.checkCompatibility.version_number

Note – Here Replace the Version_number with the firefox version that you are using for example if you are using firefox 30.0 set the name as extensions.checkCompatibility.30.0 and if using firefox 30.0 beta then set it to extensions.checkCompatibility.30.0b or if using firefox 30.0 alpha then set it to extensions.checkCompatibility.30.0a.