{"id":660,"date":"2011-12-12T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/?p=660"},"modified":"2011-12-12T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:42:00","slug":"help-test-default-compatibility-for-add-ons-on-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2011\/12\/12\/help-test-default-compatibility-for-add-ons-on-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Test Default Compatibility for Add-ons on Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Amy Tsay recently posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/12\/12\/help-test-default-compatibility-for-add-ons-on-aurora\/\" target=\"_blank\">Default Compatibility for Add-ons<\/a>. The full post is included below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The latest phase of our add-on compatibility plan has arrived in Aurora, and we need your help to test it! Since Firefox 4, we have been automatically making add-ons hosted on AMO compatible with new Firefox releases. Now, we have extended automatic compatibility to non-hosted add-ons, which account for 75% of all add-ons in use (currently in the hundreds of millions). This means you should see less of the incompatible add-ons dialog, and more of your add-ons should just work.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the plan, including how we determine eligibility for automatic compatibility <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Add-ons\/Add-ons_Default_to_Compatible\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. For additional background reading, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fligtar.com\/2011\/09\/26\/add-on-compatibility-progress-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have Aurora installed, all add-ons that are compatible with Firefox 4 or later can be installed without extra steps. Firefox will install them even if they are declared incompatible in the manifest file.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t already have Aurora installed, you can get it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/aurora\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. With Aurora, you\u2019ll see our newest features before they go beta, and have a chance to send us feedback before the final release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/aurora\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"aurora_ff\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2011\/11\/aurorass.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: Amy Tsay recently posted about Default Compatibility for Add-ons. 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