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Bypassing Incompatible Firefox Addons Issues

Firefox has adopted a faster release cycle. This basically means instead of us seeing new versions every, say, six months, we’ll be seeing them on a far shorter period of time (probably 16 weeks intervals.)

More versions in less time means less (more frequent) changes. These changes may not be very big or major, and may very well be in the back-end (performance enhancements and so forth.) So you might be told Firefox has bumped to version 5.0 overnight and you see zero changes at first glance. I personally don’t mind that.

What I do mind however, is my addons compatibility.

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Prompt On Quitting Firefox

I’ve been using Firefox 4 for Mac for quite some time and I haven’t really noticed that even when my options are set to warn me before closing Firefox, it doesn’t. And if you set THAT option on, you probably need it to work as intended.

So yeah, how to fix that. According to this answer, you should:

  • Go to about:config
  • Look for the option browser.showQuitWarning
  • Toggle to true

That’s it. It should be active immediately after that.

Update A better way would be to install Always Ask (Firefox addon) clean and does exactly that. This addon shows a popup confirmation every time you try and Quit Firefox even if you have only one tab open. Works for me!
Update 2 Lifehacker has posted a detailed guide as well. You might want to check it here