crankygeek

If you’re runing Firefox 3 Beta 5, you’ve probably already figured out how to enable unsupported Add-ons. But one thing I haven’t seen mentioned is how to install unsupported Add-ons when you start with a fresh install. The problem is that you won’t have existing extensions to enable and the new Add-ons site won’t let you download them either. Getting around this is pretty simple; just go straight to the download source and bypass the browser sniffing.

Some Add-ons are provided by the developers from their own sites so you can install from there (after allowing the domain as an install source). To get the Mozilla hosted ones, just visit the FTP site: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/addons/. Their folders are arranged by the Add-on ID. Visit the Add-ons site and find the one you need, get its ID from it’s URL, then open the FTP site inside of Firefox. Find the folder and click on the latest version .xpi file you find to start the install.