i love firefox addons for certain quick tasks. they get things done so much faster and there are some really nice ones that i use regularly.
one of them was Exif Viewer, until it stopped working with version 3.6.* of firefox. 😐
since there was no update since July 2009 i didn’t expect a quick fix. so i did it myself.
here is what you do to make the addon work again (i already had it installed when i upgraded firefox to 3.6).
go to (the SOME_HEX_ID part is usually different for everone)
1 | ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[SOME_HEX_ID].default/extensions/exif_viewer@mozilla.doslash.org/ |
and edit the file
1 | install.rdf |
in that directory.
change:
1 2 3 4 | [...] em:minVersion="1.5" em:maxVersion="<strong>3.5.*</strong>" /> <!-- Firefox --> [...] |
to
1 2 3 4 | [...] em:minVersion="1.5" em:maxVersion="<strong>3.9.*</strong>" /> <!-- Firefox --> [...] |
or a version number that suits you. after a firefox restart the exif viewer addon should work again.
i give no guarantee this will work on any version of firefox. after all there is a reason they put a version number in there 😉