Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

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Similar along the lines of upgrading to Thunderbird 2.0.0.0, I decided it was finally time to take the plunge and upgrade my home desktop to Firefox 2.0.0.x (3).

Again the hold off was some of my favourite extensions hadn't been upgraded yet, plus there were a few that were likely to never be upgraded. But, I remembered from my upgrade to 1.5 days that there's a way to hack extensions to make them work. Though I wondered if perhaps there was an easier way to do it yet.

Either way, I had decided that today I would upgrade....largely motivated by the desire to play with the Firefox Companion for eBay. Fortunately, just before I was to actually do the upgrade, I stumbled upon the fact that MR Tech's Local Install would provide the necessary functionality. It also turned out to provide a bit more, so I'll probably update my other browsers as well.

The main old extension was Amazon Button....