Resurrecting TabMixPlus for Firefox 3.0.1
In a comment, Mike Ray asked: “How did you resurrect TabMixPlus? This has been the bane of my online existence since I updated.”
Since this too was the bane of my existence, allow me to share in case any of you can’t wait for the developer to update.
- In Firefox, go to Tools > Add-ons.
- Uninstall the old version of TabMixPlus.
- Reset Firefox.
- Download the TabMixPlus dev-build, saving it to your desktop.
- Using Firefox, at first I couldn’t figure out how to download an “add-on” without having it automatically install it. There may be some other way of doing this, but the easiest way I figured out was to download the file from Internet Explorer, which will let you just save it to your desktop.
- Follow the directions mentioned in this thread by Ohmster. I’ve tweaked them a bit to make them a bit more clear:
- Rename file to change the file extension (the three letters at the end, after the dot). Change .xpi to .zip.
- If you don’t see the file extensions, goto Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options.
- Click on the View tab.
- Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types.
- Click to open with Winzip. Use the “Classic” interface.
- Right click on install.rdf and Open With > Notepad.
- Change maxver from 3.0 to 3.*
- Save the notepad file. Winzip will ask if you want to update the archive, say yes.
- Rename the file extension .zip back to .xpi.
- Drag the file on top of Firefox and let go to install it. This will make it work with any version 3 of Firefox.
As someone in on the FF add-ons page said, Firefox without TabMixPlus is not Firefox.