Fix Delicious bookmark add-on problem with Firefox 4

Major text on this post is copy pasted from someone else’s original post

Delicious bookmark add-on has long been my well-utilized tool in Firefox; but problem arose as I shifted from Fx3 to Fx4. This plug-in did not work and Firefox add-on manager displayed an warning saying, “Delicious Bookmarks add-on 2.2.106 is incompatible with Firefox 4.0”. I noticed the problem with earlier beta releases of Fx4 and hoped that this issue would be resolved before the release of the stable version, but it did not.

So, I googled and found some help text as quoted below:

• From the menu of Firefox select Help > Troubleshooting information
• On this new tab, near the top, you’ll see a field called Profile Directory. Click the button in the field to launch Finder (File Explorer for Windows)
• In the window which has popped up navigate to the extensions folder.
• Inside that should be another folder named “{2fa4ed95-0317-4c6a-a74c-5f3e3912c1f9}”.
• Inside this is a file called install.rdf Open install.rdf in any plain text editor.
• Around line 8 you should see some XML which looks like this:
  em:maxVersion=”4.0b3pre” />
• Update this to:
  em:maxVersion=”5.0″ />
  (See we removed the changed the version?)
• Save the file and restart Firefox.

The original post mentioned to change the version to 4.0 only by removing b3pre part. But, for updates of Firefox 4 it did not work properly. So, I changed it to 5.0 and started to use Delicious once again

References:

• http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1125540,1125571
• http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/802688