Firefox 4.0 will disable my working extensions.

I have several extensions that are working totally fine with Firefox 4.0 beta 13. I've reported via the Compatibility Reporter that they are all working fine and they are still marked as such. Now Firefox has totally ignored this and wants to remove them on next boot.

With all due respect, I didn't realize I was posting into a user forum. I had hoped for the courtesy of a reply from the authors.
Notwithstanding the above, how incredibly arrogant you and they appear to be. In the grand scheme of things do you actually think that's its Google's responsibility/obligation to make themselves compatible with Firefox, not the other way around?
Maybe no one mentioned it, but there are a hell of a lot more Google users out than Firefox users. Years ago, even Apple eventually came around and acknowledged the necessity of establishing some level of compatibility with the evil empire up in Redmond.
Obviously Firefox will do whatever they want (or in this case don't want) to do on this.
I won't be sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the guys at Google to start re-writing code to meet Firefox's standards.

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