On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:28 AM, ajkessel <ajke...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yup, Mozilla does a really good job of being kind to extension developers and being careful not to break them. Usually it is pretty trivial to update an extension to be compatible with a new version of Firefox, especially if the extension is written in JavaScript (as most of them are).

However, Gears goes quite a long way beyond what typical extensions do, and it is written in C++, so things are more complex. Many of the internal interfaces that we must use to do what we do have changed. There is also a deployment issue since C++ components for FF2 are not compatible with FF3 and vice versa. We don't want to have to deploy two different versions of Gears because many users will not know which version of Firefox they use, or will not understand if Gears breaks when they upgrade from FF2 to FF3.

So, we're working as quickly as possible to solve these issues and will have FF3 support done before FF3 ships and probably even sooner than that.

We all understand that FF3 is much better than FF2, so there are lots of people upgrading to it before it's officially been released.

We'll post here, and on the Gears blog (http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/) when FF3 support is complete.

Thanks,

- a