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I am surprised to see that a restart of the browser is still required to enable / disable extensions and themes in the new FireFox 4. Is this the case with Chr

• hpaavola 16y ago
  Firefox has also other type of extensions. Jetpack extensions ( https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ ) which don't require restarts. And there are also "mini themes", called Personas ( http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/ http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/ ) which don't require restarts.
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• tobylane 16y ago
  Not in anything I've seen, about 50 different extensions including context menus, blockers, all sorts I'd call major.
• mbrubeck 16y ago
  Firefox 4 is the first release to support restartless add-ons: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Bootstrapped_extensions https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Bootstrapped_ext... Add-ons written in the traditional way will still need a restart, until the authors adapt them to the new bootstrap API. Here are some add-ons that are restartless already: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/tag/restartless https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/tag/restartless