Firefox 2 was becoming a massive pain in the ass. It would crash on me at least 2 times per day, and it rendered anything with javascript extremely slowly. Needless to say, using Gmail was a “bad user experience”. Since using Firefox 3, It renders javascript better than Firefox2, and I have only had it crash on me 3 times (it’s only happened while I was closing the application).

The only downside to using Firefox 3 Beta has been the fact that I haven’t been able to use most of my Firefox2 extensions that I have come to rely on so heavily (ie. the developer toolbar)

Well… THERE’S A SOLUTION!!!

The boys at Lifehacker posted a blog post called, “Make Your Extensions Work with the Firefox 3 Beta“.

I admit, it’s definitely a bit sketchy, and I wouldn’t recommend it for the average user… but I’m guessing that if you’re using the latest beta version, you’re not a newby anyway, so give it a try.

I did it, and it works perfectly. I am using the developer toolbar right now; I couldn’t use it before the hack.

Try it and let me know how it goes!