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Today the new Firefox 3.5 has arrived. But after installing it the addons nightmare begins: incompatible versions. I can live without some of them but no TabMixPlus and All-in-One Gestures. I found a TMP version for Firefox 3.5b but there was no gestures and instinctively the contextual menu was popping around. After some research I managed to trick the old version to work on the new Firefox 3.5. Here is how:

1. Go to the plugin page: All-in-One Gestures
2. Right click on the “add to firefox” button and save link as
3. You will get a .xpi file which is a zip archive
4. Rename the .xpi adding .zip to the end
5. Open it and extract install.rdf
6. Open install.rdf with a text editor and look for  <em:maxVersion>3.0.*</em:maxVersion>
7. Change it to <em:maxVersion>4.0.*</em:maxVersion>
8. Copy the new install.rdf into the zip
9. Remove the .zip extension
10. Drag the .xpi to firefox

Enjoy !