Firefox 3Firefox 3 is now my browser of choice. There are a huge number of improvements from the old Fox, plus the slick new Design is just nifty. The downside to user FF Beta is the lack of extension support.

If you’re a Web Developer like me you will not be able to do much without certain extensions, one of those being the Web Developer Toolbar. Earlier today I found a post from another blog that teaches you how to install the toolbar in Firefox 3. Luckily for me I was also able to use SEOQuake Toolbar as well. Here are the steps to do just that in my own simplified version:

  1. Download the Web Developer Toolbar. Remember to right click – save link as.
  2. Once it’s on your Desktop, rename the file to a ZIP file. In other words, from web-developer.xpi
    to web-developer.zip.
  3. Extract the files into a separate folder and look for “install.rdf.” Rick click on this file and open it with notepad. Then hit CTRL+F to bring up the search bar and look for this line ofcode: <em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion> Change the above code to this code: <em:maxVersion>4.0.0.*</em:maxVersion> Now save the file.
  4. We must now return the files to their original state. Highlight all of the files that were extracted. Right click on the files and choose to archive into a ZIP file. It should look like “web-developer.zip”. Once again rename it to “web-developer.xpi”.
  5. Now fire up Firefox Beta 3.0b2. In the address bar type in “about:config” This will bring up a warning page. Ignore it and proceed. Right click on the config page and choose to create a new Boolean key called:extensions.checkUpdateSecurity Set this new value to FALSE and close the page.
  6. Now drag the newly modified web-developer.xpi onto Firefox Beta and install it. Restart and it should work just fine!

Enjoy!