Getting the Delicious bookmarks add-on to work with Firefox 4.0
I figured out a simple trick to make the Delicious bookmarks Firefox add-on work after upgrading to Firefox 4.0 or 4.0.1.
This assumes that you previously had the Delicious bookmarks add-on working in Firefox 3.6.x and you have just upgraded to Firefox 4.0 – which disables the add-on and states that it is incompatible with Firefox 4.0
- Open Firefox
- Goto “Help” in the Menu, then “Troubleshooting Information”
- Click on the “Open Containing Folder” button (within the box “Application Basics” on top of the page)
- Close Firefox
- Goto into directory “extensions\{2fa4ed95-0317-4c6a-a74c-5f3e3912c1f9}”
- Edit install.rdf and change the following from the first line to the second line
em:maxVersion="4.0b3pre" /> em:maxVersion="4.0" />
UPDATE: To get the Delicious bookmarks add-on to work with Firefox 4.0.1 and all subsequent 4.0.x versions, change above line to:
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em:maxVersion=”4.0.*" />
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Great stuff. Thanks very much.
Thanks for the instructions. It worked like a charm!
Thank you David, this worked perfectly!
Worked perfectly! Thank you very much!
Thanx, works perfect!!
works perfectly: thank you very much!
Very nice work David. You need to get this over to Delicious, where I imagine many people have been looking for help. Good job.
Worked for me – thanks so much!
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After I finally figured out how to “edit”, it worked great – Thanks. Delicious said “Unfortunately, the Delicious add-on is not currently available for
Firefox 4 and we do not yet have any estimate to when an updated version
will be available. I apologize for any disappointment this may cause.
Thanks a lot! I just bookmarked your page on Delicious using Firefox 4
Thanks a lot..
Wait–it’s not working for me (yet). I have a Mac–does that matter? I had Delicious working in Firefox 3.6. I installed Firefox 4. I went to “Help” and then “Troubleshooting. . .”I didn’t see a link for “Open Containing Folder,” but there was a list of add-ons showing that Delicious was not enabled. The Delicious line showed the directory “extensions\{2fa4ed95-0317-4c6a-a74c-5f3e3912c1f9}”
But when I close Firefox, of course, that page disappears. HOW DO I OPEN THE DIRECTORY EXTENSIONS AFTER CLOSING FIREFOX? I think if I get this information I can make it work. Please let me know how.
Does this work on a Mac? I can’t figure out how to get to the directory “extensions/ . . .” after closing Firefox.
I was able to get this to work on both Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OS X 10.6.6
Perhaps, you can use Mac OS X’s Spotlight to search for this folder after you have closed your Firefox.
what a great trick! the delicious bookmark works as usual in my computer now. Thank you David.
great!
It works.
Thanks buddy, welldone
Awesome, thanks for the workaround!
I upgraded to 4.0.1 and it did not work. So, I changed it to 4.1 and now it works.
This was on a Mac
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How do you edit the file???
unfortunately it did not work for me Firefox 4.01
@makechai where did you get 4.1??? I have searched the web and bittorrents but could not find it anywhere.
I edited the install.rdf as instructed, but the delicious is still disable after I restart firefox. It used to work on my 3.6. Does this trick work on 4.0.1?
Thank you, thank you! I would suffer without delicious!
If you are using Firefox 4.0.1 you need to change the text to: em:maxVersion=”4.0.1″
Works fine
Awesome – thanks so much David. Saved the day!
OMG, I could kiss you!!! I use delicious all the time, and I used the “em:maxVersion=4.0.*” – and it worked like a charm! I was dancing around the computer room!
*smooches*
wonderful! meraviglioso…
thanks a lot
(just wonder why this didn’t occur to anybody at delicious… crowdsourcing wonders…)
@Kane. I do not have Firefox 4.1. I just changed the maxVersion to 4.1. I am currently running Firefox 4.0.1
Awesome, It works on my PC with FF4.0.1
That was great–very simple, worked perfectly.
YIEPPIEEEEEHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
(thx)
that worked like charm…One question…why did they disable it in first place? are there any side effects of changing the install.rdf file
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I could not see the “Open Containing Folder” button (within the box “Application Basics” on top of the page) in the Troubleshooting Information page. Could you please advise?
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Thank you very much! I am very glad I have my bookmarks back in the browser
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