Ooh, I installed Ubuntu’s beta, the Hardy Heron, and I was unthrilled to find that they are including a BETA version of Firefox as the default browser.

Who knows, maybe it’ll be official by April, but for now, it’s still BETA!

I use a few plugins for various things, and was equally unthrilled to find that none of the were compatible with FF3.  Unthrilled, but not completely unsurprised.  The same issue happened when they release FF2 some time ago.

So, I found a way to fix it.

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In the Address Bar, type “about:config”.  This will prompt you (which I laughed at) that it might “void your warranty”.  Right click on a blank space, and click New->Boolean.  Enter the value string “extensions.checkCompatibility” and select “false” for the boolean value.

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Restart FF, and voila!  I was able to successfully use the ShowIP and Signature plugins, which I use quite regularly.

I am now happy.  :)

/cs