A long long time ago (I can still remember…) we changed the preference you use to disable compatibility checking for extensions. We still aim for users to instead use tools like the Add-on Compatibility Reporter to handle this (especially since we are going to start crowdsourcing data from it), but for developers who don’t want to install that but still want to use extensions on their nightly builds the new rapid release model would mean setting a new preference every 6 weeks.
We’ve now changed this and any nightly, try, or self-made builds (anything not on the aurora, beta or release channels) will instead use the single preference extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly from now on, regardless of version. This will be available from tonight’s nightly onwards.
Thank you! My test account already accumulated five compatibility prefs (for the various Firefox versions I test with), good to know that their number will start to decrease now 🙂
Just for clarity the preference needs to be boolean to work.
It would help push people to Add-on Compatibility Reporter if it worked with 7.0 😉
It should do with the latest update
It’s working on Nightly 7.0a1.
It should do with the latest update