Its absolutely silly!!

Well, this is how software is, and is not only in FF. There are Many other also software that also have filters that if you want to use them you have to pay for the upgrade.

I suposse that you mean that you CAN´T use 3.0 filter on FF 2.0, and that most of the new filters are done for 3.0 instead of 2.0, and is not the problem that happens that you need to UPDATE the FF 2.0.8 to FF 2.0.9. Update and upgrade is different.

This has has happened the same as with FF 1.0, when FF 2.0 was released nearly all the new was for 2.0 and if you did not upgrade you could not use them.

I know that this could seem to be silly, BUT is not FF Inc. fault and they do NOT do it this way to charge you more money and that you have to pay more for using the filters.

Is impossible that FF 2.0 could use FF 3.0 filters because IS MISSING all the new features and changes to the code as you can see here --> http://filterforge.com/features/whats-new3.html

And this will happen the same with FF 4.0...

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The only possible way is to upgrade to the new version with the new features, and there is still 3 days with a 50% discount for getting it.

Perhaps you can´t afford it, but regretably this is the only way.

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Spaceray wrote: Is impossible that FF 2.0 could use FF 3.0 filters because IS MISSING all the new features

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Morgantao wrote: Also yes and no.... If you make a filter in FF3 that uses only FF2 or even only FF1 components, you still get a FF3 only filter.

If you read well what I have put, is true that is impossible to USE FF 3.0 inside FF 2.0 and there is NO way to do it, and CAN´T be possible.

You wrote "if you make...." and what I mean is about already done and available in the library

Other different thing is that having FF 3.0 you can of course make filters for FF 2.0 if you do not use any of the new components of FF 3.0, as the good example is the one you had told about your own filter, BUT then after when submitting it takes the version of the software INSTEAD of looking at the components included, and as is taken only the version, of course that is only a FF 3.0 filter, because you are using the FF 3.0 to submit it.

What could be done is make the filter with FF 3.0 and then copy all the components to FF 2.0 and submit the filter form there.

Also I think that is NOT ONLY THE NEW FEATURES that makes a filter FF 3.0 ONLY, as far as I know some of the OLD components of FF 2.0 gets a newer version in FF 3.0, so although this component is also available in FF 2.0, is NOT the same because this is another higher version, so it is not compatible downward.

You should use the same version of the component in FF 3.0 as in FF 2.0 and then submit it from FF 2.0.

Nope as much as i love using Filter Forge ... i cant afford the upgrade and i love alot of the filters that are only FF3 compatible .... but well .. maybe next time.

What GMM said... I haven't upgraded to version 3 yet but I still use FF many times a week because there are plenty of excellent filters available for that version, I think there may even be more available for version 2 at the moment then there are that are exclusive to version 3. You have to go back a bit to find them, and it's a bit of a bitch because as far as I know there's no way to only see version 2 filters if that's what you're looking for, but they're there. The only ones you can't use are the ones that have a little 3 at the top.

i come directly to the site LOL .... i dont use the browser ... i'll try that

cool thanks!