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Release Candidate 1 is now available (from here), the point at which I generally upgrade, so I installed it yesterday. It’s nice. Very nice. Much quicker than Firefox 2 and appears to hog less memory after a full day’s use. Extensions generally work, but most still aren’t registered as compatible and will be disabled by default. To get around this, enter about:config in the address bar and agree to the warning. Then, search for the key:

extensions.checkCompatibility

Change the value to false by double clicking it. If it doesn’t already exist as it didn’t on mine, you can right click and add a key of type boolean with the above name and value set to false. A restart of Firefox will then get most of your extensions working again! If you’re really bothered about potentially not having to reinstall Firefox, then either disable all your extensions until you can verify they work definitely, or don’t do this step…

I’ve now just got to find a way to get my Smart Bookmarks back again after overwriting them using Foxmarks -  the key that needs changing is again missing on my system. Incidentally, you need a beta version of Foxmarks to be compatible with Firefox 3, available with discussion from here for which you’ll need to login to participate. A direct link to the area can be found here.