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How do I disable the Firefox 8.0 add-on compatibility assistant?

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wolfbeast71
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The new "add-on compatibility assistant" is nice for some users, but causes issues if you have internal distributions of the browser with included/bundled add-ons that should be accepted without question. These add-ons in the assistant are listed as third-party and unchecked by default, which is definitely not desired behavior.

How do I disable the assistant so it will use the "old" compatibility checker instead, even on first run after upgrading? Or is there a way to specifically list extensions that should be checked as "keep" by default or be hidden from the assistant?

The new "add-on compatibility assistant" is nice for some users, but causes issues if you have internal distributions of the browser with included/bundled add-ons that should be accepted without question. These add-ons in the assistant are listed as third-party and unchecked by default, which is definitely not desired behavior. How do I disable the assistant so it will use the "old" compatibility checker instead, even on first run after upgrading? Or is there a way to specifically list extensions that should be checked as "keep" by default or be hidden from the assistant?

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TransferDudeDotCom
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extensions.checkCompatibility.8.0 boolean set to false. This should allow you to use any extension that is disabled.

wolfbeast71
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extensions.checkCompatibility.8.0 only disable the compatibility check - that is NOT what I asked :/ The assistant lists v8 compatible, bundled add-ons as being "third party" and they are not checked to keep by default. I don't want bundled add-ons that are supplied with the browser to show up - and if that can't be done, I want to completely disable the add-on assistant that is new in v8.

It has nothing to do with the add-ons not being compatible with v8.