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October 24, 2006

Making the del.icio.us Extension Work in FireFox 2.0

There was one thing holding me back from FF 2.0 and that is no del.icio.us plug-in. Well, David Findley posted a great work around today that works. Now I’m writing this with FF2.0 RC3. Yum.

  1. Go to your Firefox profile directory and then to its extensions subdirectory.
    • hint:d in the Library/ folder in your home directory: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/
  2. Do a find for del.icio.us.jar. It should be in the chrome subdirectory of some distinctly unspellable directory.
  3. Go to the directory above that chrome one. There should be a file called install.rdf.
  4. Open that file in your favourite text editor. If it’s the correct one it should say em:name="del.icio.us" somewhere in the file.
  5. Assuming you found the correct file, change the line that reads em:maxVersion="1.5.0.*" /> so that it reads em:maxVersion="2.*" /> instead.
  6. Restart Firefox 2.0 and your del.icio.us extension should be working again.

– Update –

Appended hint for Mac users to #1.

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