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Firefox has had some form of SVG support since 1.x, so I was mildly surprised when I attempted to view an SVG image in my fresh install of Firefox 2 when it didn't work - Firefox told me that I needed to install missing plugins. (Which unsurprisingly couldn't be found since no plugin is in fact needed.)

So what was the cause of all this woe and despair? Well it all stemmed from the fact that I upgrades from 1.5 to 2, and in 1.5 I was using the Adobe SVG plugin which disables the built-in SVG rendering. Firefox 2 helpfully copied this setting, but not the plugin.

For future reference svg.enabled in about:config needs to be true for the built-in SVG viewer to be used.