MR Tech Toolkit Add-on Compatibility

[Tallpaultn]

Does anyone know if there will be release of MR Tech Toolkit Add-on released that will work with Pale Moon 11.0.1? There is a version of the add-on available that works fine with Firefox 11.0 & Firefox 12.0 beta, however it is incompatible with Pale Moon 11.0.1. Thank you in advance for any assistance.

[lyceus]

Hi!

It's "Not available for Firefox 11.0.1" it says on firefox add-ons page. But I've install it from the home page http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/ so maybe it's a hiccup of the fire fox page as usual.

[Tallpaultn]

Thank you for the information. I already tried that version of MR Tech Toolkit & a newer version I'm using on Firefox & both create a glitch on Pale Moon 11.0.1 that causes it to hang up when started and/or restarted so I uninstalled Pale Moon 11.0.1.
Doesn't make sense that the add-on causes Pale Moon to hang up like that, but works fine on Firefox--apparently has something to do with how Pale Moon browser was built... Oh well, life goes on...

[Moonchild]

From the homepage of the toolkit:

The primary goal of this extension is to provide the tools needed to install and manage extensions and themes locally. To do this the extension provides multi-extension installation support, hacking capabilities to the Extension/Theme manager windows, features to find and troubleshoot Extensions/Themes Build, GUID and Profile information.

Basically, it does dirty hacks of the extension/theme manager and otherwise borderline acceptable behavior for an add-on... I'm not really surprised it actually breaks Pale Moon, because there are quite a few "under-the-hood" differences from an official Mozilla Firefox build. It's quite possible (likely, rather) that the toolkit would also break Firefox, e.g. when it comes with (corporate) preinstalled distribution add-ons or a corporate theme...

[Tallpaultn]

I re-installed Pale Moon 11.0.1 & am not using Mr Tech Toolkit add-on. I also removed Mr Tech Toolkit add-on from Mozilla Firefox 12.0b3 after the information you provided because I don't want to use add-ons that are coloring outside the lines so to speak & are likely to cause performance problems with Pale Moon and/or Mozilla Firefox browsers. Thank you for the heads up information & comments.

[lyceus]

I re-installed Pale Moon 11.0.1 & am not using Mr Tech Toolkit add-on. I also removed Mr Tech Toolkit add-on from Mozilla Firefox 12.0b3 after the information you provided because I don't want to use add-ons that are coloring outside the lines so to speak & are likely to cause performance problems with Pale Moon and/or Mozilla Firefox browsers. Thank you for the heads up information & comments.

BTW: MR Tech Toolkit Add-on looks like and ad-ware tool. As that thing changed my home page and added some search engines to my Pale Moon install, I discovered them after I uninstall the add-on.

[Tallpaultn]

The add-on didn't add any search engines to my Pale Moon install; however I surely don't like using products that function in that manner & don't plan on using them when I become aware of such. Thanks for the information.