Firefox 3 extension compatibility chart
Here is a chart (renders correctly in Fx3) listing the top 95% of extensions, sized by usage. Helpful for tracking add-on compatibility with Firefox 3.
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I’m confused. There are only ~750 extensions listed on that chart and there are vastly more than 750 extensions on AMO, so how can it be 95% of them? Perhaps it’s the case that these extensions account for 95% of total extension installs? And when you say they are ranked by “usage” does that include addons that are disabled or just the ones that are active?
I was looking for the information on how to hack a non-working ff2 extension to make it work in ff3, it was something simple like opening it in a text editor and changing one line, anyone can post a link to that page?
Thanks for the info and the useful representation.
Could you say a little more about what you mean by “usage” when you say “sized by usage”? Is this a total download count, or is this based on data coming from AMO based on update pings? Is this at all weighted for recency (giving greater weight to usage this year than say two years ago, for example)?
Most used extension is Java Console?
[...] also good news in the add-ons compatibility front as Blog of Metrics reported last week that 40% of the add-ons that represent 95% of Mozilla Add-ons usage are already [...]
[...] notizie anche sul versante della compatibilità di temi ed estensioni: Blog of Metrics ha riferito la scorsa settimana che il 40% dei componenti aggiuntivi che costituiscono il 95% di [...]
brandon:
Look at this guide how to manually edit Firefox 1-2 extensions to work with Firefox 3: http://www.reeloo.net/wordpress/how-to-manually-update-firefox-xpi-extensions
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