Will Firefox3.1 be ready for your extension?

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For Firefox, a wide range of extensions are essential to improving its own strength. However, each time there is a large scale upgrade, the extensions must also be updated to ensure compatibility. Now, Firefox 3.1 has entered the Beta testing stage, and Mozilla has also issued an appeal to developers, hoping that everyone will work together to ensure that the most commonly used 95% extension can be compatible with the new version of browsers.

Among the total 5804 Firefox extensions included in the database, 861 accounted for 95% of the usage, while the remaining 4943 accounted for only 5%, Mozilla said.

For these 861 extensions, Firefox 3.0 is fully compatible with 94%, but Firefox 3.1 is only 32% compatible with the latest test version, of which 28% is the official version and 4% is the test version, in addition, there are also Alpha versions 14% compatible with Firefox 3.1. the proportion of completely incompatible versions is as high as 54%, more than half.

However, some extensions have been abandoned for a long time, so it is still difficult for Mozilla to reach a goal of compatibility.

The final release date of Firefox 3.1 has no definite target, but Beta 2 is expected to be released by the end of this month. There may be another Beta 3 later.