Last night, I upgraded Firefox on my laptop to the new “1.5″, and was quickly disappointed that nearly all of my extensions that I had come to rely on so much were disabled. What really annoys me is that I now have a sub-par browser experience, even though this release is supposed to be “bigger and better”.
There are several updates to the browser that I’m glad they made, but I don’t think they went far enough to provide backward compatibility for extensions.
Over at LifeHacker, you can find instructions on how to enable Firefox 1.0 extensions for 1.5, which I did, but a few of my extensions still caused 1.5 some grief and I had to disable them again.
So, for now, I’m not upgrading my work computer’s browser… I guess I’ll have to wait for either Firefox to work better with it’s community’s extensions, or for the extension developers to update their extensions.