Blog This for Firefox 3.0

Since the first release of Windows Live Writer, we’ve had a Blog This add-on for Firefox. Currently it’s marked as compatible with Firefox 1.5-2.0, which means beta versions of Firefox 3 won’t load it. Turns out it works fine with Firefox 3 as well, if you mark it as such:

1. Start Notepad
2. Open this file:
   C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\BlogThis\Mozilla Firefox\install.rdf
3. Change the line
   <em:maxVersion>2.0+</em:maxVersion>
   to
   <em:maxVersion>3.0+</em:maxVersion>
4. Rename install.rdf to install.rdf.gone
5. Exit Firefox, if it’s running
6. Start Firefox
7. Exit Firefox
8. Rename install.rdf.gone back to install.rdf
9. Start Firefox

(Steps 4-9 are necessary to get Firefox to pick up the changes in install.rdf.)

When we get the chance, we’ll update the add-on so this isn’t necessary.

If you encounter any problems using Blog This with Firefox 3, please let me know in the comments.