The Goal Copy extension has been updated for FireFox 3.5

(If you don’t know what this is, check here)

It is really a pretty easy change when they don’t change any of the functions or elements of FireFox that an extension uses.

The reason most extensions stop working is because the new 3.x.x number is higher than the max version listed in the exension’s install.rdf file.

In the install.rdf file there are a couple lines that look like this:

<em:minVersion>1.5</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>3.0.*</em:maxVersion>

Changing the 3.0.* to 3.5.* takes care of it until they move past 3.5.

So why not just make it 4.0.* or 9.0.* and forget about it?  Because by that time they might make changes to the elements of FireFox that the extension interacts with that could cause the extension to behave badly.  In the case of Goal Copy, this is unlikely since it is such a simple extension, but you never know. . .

If you don’t like to wait on your favorite extension to update for a new version, you can always give it a try yourself. You just need to find the install.rdf file for that extension and make the change to the em:MaxVersion line.

To find it for Goal Copy, you could do a search for install.rdf, and open the one that is in the directory “goalcopy@john.henson”.  Some extensions are not in clearly named directories, however, and might be harder to find.

Apologies for the FireFox extension discussion, but I wanted to have more than a one-line post.  And, hey, someone might find it interesting.

Related posts:

1. Goal Copy updated for new GA Goal Interface (And now can copy filters too)
2. Goal Copy Extension Update for FF3
3. Goal Copy Update
4. Goal Copy Extension Update
5. Copying Goals in Google Analytics (A Firefox Extension)

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