I've read around the blogs and twitterverse that people are seeing some of their add-ons disabled by the just-released Firefox 3.0.1 security and stability update.
There's good news and bad news here.
First the bad news. Yes, several add-ons seem to be disabled with the update to Firefox 3.0.1. This should not have happened and is most likely the result of a mistake in the add-on's Firefox compatibility string. Where the author should have used "3.0.*" they instead used just "3.0" (note the missing "*")
The good news is that it's only a few add-ons and Mozilla folks are reaching out to those authors to help them fix their version compatibility. I think we'll see pretty quick updates from those vendors.
Firefox security and stability updates should not break anything. The Web should continue working just fine and so should extensions, themes, and plug-ins. Mozilla works very hard to make sure that the security updates are as painless as possible, including keeping a close eye on all of the add-ons hosted at http://addons.mozilla.org. But there are all kinds of add-ons that live outside of AMO and that makes things a bit more difficult to track and help out when needed.
So, if you see or hear of add-ons that are disabled by a security update, please let me or Basil or someone else from add-ons land know about it. Thanks.
Oh, and you can read more about this from Basil and you can digg it to help get the word out to the wider world.
