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.

After spending some time researching and fiddling with .XML files in my Dreamweaver installation to enable code coloring for Ruby on Rails, I found a link to a new extension that does it for me. Just download and install the extension and install using the Dreamweaver extension manager.

From the “Riding the Clutch” website…

I’ve been working on an extension for Dreamweaver that adds file support and code coloring for Ruby and Rails files. I posted a question about it on the Macromedia form and have had a couple people asking for a copy, so I’ve decided to make it official! I hearby release the Rubyweaver 1.0.0 extension for Dreamweaver MX 2004 and up:

The new version has basic Code Hinting, Syntax Highlighting, and Code Coloring for both Ruby and Rails files.

Click here to download the “Rubyweaver” extension.