Zac's Blog » firefox http://zacharyruiz.com on software... Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:24:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Backwards Compatibility for Firefox Extensions http://zacharyruiz.com/index.php/2009/06/backwards-compatibility-for-firefox-extensions/ http://zacharyruiz.com/index.php/2009/06/backwards-compatibility-for-firefox-extensions/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:15:23 +0000 Zac http://zacharyruiz.com/index.php/2009/06/backwards-compatibility-for-firefox-extensions/ A year and a half ago I wrote a Firefox extension to learn how they work.  We were all using Firefox 2.4 or thereabouts at the time.  I never finished it and today I dusted it off and tried to install it within my Firefox v3.0.3.  Naturally the installation failed; I feared as much considering the major version change.

Imagine my surprise…

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when the extension installed perfectly after updating my supported maxVersion to 3.0.*. 

Kudos to the folks for maintaining backwards compatibility!  Too many software projects sacrifice this necessity under the crunch of a deadline or the spell of the next killer feature.  I like Firefox now more than ever.  Bring on Firefox 3.5!

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