Today i tried to install Quote Colors 0.3 on thunderbird.
But i keep hitting the “incompatibility” version problem.
So below my notes on how to “bypass” the Max Version on every mozilla addon xpi.
[~]> cd tmp/ [tmp]> mkdir -pv QuoteColors mkdir: created directory ‘QuoteColors’ [tmp]> cd !$ cd QuoteColors [QuoteColors]> wget https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/downloads/latest/170/addon-170-latest.xpi 2015-01-30 13:32:13 (446 KB/s) - ‘addon-170-latest.xpi’ saved [37343/37343] [QuoteColors]> unzip addon-170-latest.xpi Archive: addon-170-latest.xpi inflating: chrome.manifest inflating: chrome/quotecolors.jar inflating: defaults/preferences/quotecolors.js inflating: install.rdf inflating: license.txt [QuoteColors]> sed -i -e 's/3.0.*/99.9.9/g' install.rdf [QuoteColors]> zip -r addon-170-latest.xpi . updating: chrome.manifest (deflated 80%) updating: chrome/quotecolors.jar (deflated 15%) updating: defaults/preferences/quotecolors.js (deflated 77%) updating: install.rdf (deflated 69%) updating: license.txt (deflated 53%) adding: defaults/ (stored 0%) adding: defaults/preferences/ (stored 0%) adding: chrome/ (stored 0%)