I consider myself relatively browser agnostic but I use Firefox for a lot of my work.  I utilize multiple profiles and use the –no-remote option to actually run these multiple profiles at the same time.  It keeps the cookies, extensions, add-ons and sessions all separate which allows me to work more efficiently.

I also rely rather heavily on Firefox extensions to do my work: Hackbar, Web Developer, Firebug, FireTitle and several others are my staples.  I recently upgraded to FF 3.6 and that unfortunately broke my FireTitle extension. (side note: FireTitle is used to change the title bar of my different browsers so I know which profile I’m working under in each window).  Looking for a solution and not finding any, I decided to try to “fix it” on my own.  I tried to alter the install.rdf file that sits in the C:\Users\foo\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\y1g9vafa.WebAppTest1\extensions\{f4b962b4-ab75-41bf-8da7-a0435258a27c} folder.  There’s a line in there that says <em:maxVersion>3.5.*</em:maxVersion>.  Knowing how clever I am, I changed that 3.5 to 3.6 and restarted FF!  FAIL.  So I looked for something else…

I can across the Add-on Compatibility Reporter and, just wanting to have an avenue to report that the extension wasn’t working, installed it.  I restarted FF 3.6, went to the add-on screen, clicked the Compatibility button next to FireTitle, selected “This add-on no longer works” from the drop-down, submitted my report and restarted FF.  Much to my surprise, the Options button for FireTitle was now enabled!  The settings were reset to default, but something about that whole process enabled the extension.  I repeated it for each of my profiles and now I’m back to where I want to be.

Of course, none of this would be necessary if Mr. Nowitz would just update it.  Cheers Jonathan, and thanks for a great tool.  I truly do enjoy it.