In one day, I installed and fell in love with the Firefox extension for Contribute, and then I installed Firefox 3 and found that the extension was no longer available on the new version of Firefox. I hope Adobe catches up soon and updates the extension for FF3!!!

Ditto on this issue. The upgrade to Firefox 3.0 to fix JavaScript errors rendered the Contribute plug-in as incompatible. Three months later and still no fix from Adobe. Are Adobe users having to wait on the CS4 release?

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Originally posted by: Inndesign
Ditto on this issue. The upgrade to Firefox 3.0 to fix JavaScript errors rendered the Contribute plug-in as incompatible. Three months later and still no fix from Adobe. Are Adobe users having to wait on the CS4 release?

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Probably yes and there is no guarantee that will work for very long.

I'm confused, does that mean the CS3 Contribute toolbar will never work with Firefox 3 on a pc?

It's November now. What are the chances of Toolbar support for Firefox now?

I tried creating a “extensions.checkCompatibility” boolean field in the Firefox about:config and set it to false, the toolbar becomes enabled but it doesn’t work.
Are you able to make it work? Can please send me the detailed steps.

I tried MR Tech Toolkit as suggested by CarolHaynes and it works for me. I guess we have to deal with imperfect solution for Contribute to work with Firefox 3.0.

Lets hope Adobe Contribute Team thinks logically and release an update for Firefox extension. Otherwise, I might as well go for a competing software in future to manage my website.

The page you list does not exist. Even if it did it would only help Mac users.

I don't understand why you cannot release the existing version of the Windows Firefox 3 addon - it takes less than 5 minutes to sort out since all you have to dd is edit a single text file in the exisitng addon for version 2 and change the upper limit on the range of Firefox versions supported.

The version 2 addon works fine in version 3 the difficulty is getting it installed!

I already posted one workaround above.

If you are fed up and can't be bothered with my original workaround here is how to do it:

Go to the folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Contribute CS3\SupportFiles\FirefoxExtension

You will find a file called contribute_toolbar.xpi

Rename the file from 'contribute_toolbar.xpi'.to 'old_contribute_toolbar.zip' and then unpack the zip file to a folder. (If you can't see the xpi extension go to the control panel, in classic mode, and find folder options, hit the View tab and make sure 'Hide extensions for known file types' is unticked and then click OK)

Open the folder you unpacked to and find the file called install.rdf

Right click/Properties on the file and untick 'read only', press OK

Open Notepad and drag this file onto notepad. On the 22nd line change the version number from 2.9 to 3.9 (or whatever value you fee comfortable cahnging it to).

Hit File > Save then close Notepad

Right click/Properties on the file and untick 'read only', press OK

Now you need to pack the whole folder back up into a zip file (use hatever tool you would normally use or in the folder background right click / New / Zip file and follow the wizard.

Give the new zip file the name 'contribute_toolbar.zip' and then rename it to 'contribute_toolbar.xpi'

Now you can install the toolbar in Firefox 3. Unfortunately Adobe have screwed this up too so if you try and run the install file in the same folder it doesn't work. Instead open Firefox and then go to File / Open ... Navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Contribute CS3\SupportFiles\FirefoxExtension and open the XPI file you just made.

You will get a warning that it is not signed but that is OK. Allow it to install and then restart firefox.

Voila you have the contribute toolbar.

There is one twist however - because we manually install the toolbar when you first use it Adobe Contribute asks do you want to install the Firefox toolbar - just cancel that wind and it should work fine form then on.

Backup your new XPI somewhere in case you need to reinstall it some time.

Sorry for the "." in the last post which made the link incorrect. The correct link is http://www.adobe.com/go/kb407794 and I have also corrected the link in the previous post.