Slashdot Firefox Extension

christopherfinke writes "I've been working on Slashdotter Firefox extension for Slashdot users, and version 1.2 has been approved by the Mozilla admins. Features include the ability to auto-add cache links after story links (from any of Coral Cache, Google Cache, or Mirrordot), a quick-reply feature that adds a 'Reply' option to the right-click menu when you select text in a comment, the option of styling all of Slashdot's pages like a chosen Slashdot section, links in the comment sections that allow you to toggle open/closed all of a comments replies, and more. All of Slashdotter's features are optional, and the extension is compatible with Firefox, the Mozilla Suite, Seamonkey, and Flock."

Re:trolly troll troll

[Anonymous Coward]

There's no error in what you highlighted.

Re:Wow

[AKAImBatman]

What I need is a life.

What you need is kids. They'll take care of your free time for you, dontcha worry 'bout that. ;-)

Re:Does it fix the "slow down cowboy!" bug in slas

[geekoid]

An intentionally implemented feature is not a bug.

I could pander until my karma was high, and then bombard slashdot with posts. Could have hundreds before my karma was lowerd.

In the 'olden' days when they first implemented karma and it was apoint system, I aklways felt your karma should be subtracted from the number of seconds you are forced to wait.

It is still a wait, but not as bad. Before subscription, I also thought it would be neet if people with a karma over 40 got to see the next story first.

Cracker's wet dream

[DragonHawk]

Since we're trolling...

I can just imagine the legions of Slashdotters (the people) installing Slashdotter (the program) as we speak (type). I know I plan to.

So, imagine if the author of this program slipped in a Trojan Horse back door or some such. Or, waited a bit, and added it to a future release. Suddenly, he'd have some level of access to the browser of hundreds or more Slashdotters!

How many people here reviewed the source code to this thing before they installed it? I know I didn't.

Food for thought.

Re:Legitimate story?

[timmyf2371]

Better that the author submits the story as this guy did rather than submit it under a pseudonym praising "some other guy's" extension.

I think it deserves to make front page as it did anyway; for people who aren't interested, fair enough - it's just another story you aren't interested in. For people like myself and many others who had never heard of this extension, it's great that we've now been informed.

Re:The times they....

[Sentry21]

That's why you browse at Score: 3. There are a lot less crappy posts, no trolls, and just plain less to read. Ever since I started browsing at threshold 3, Slashdot has been a lot more managable. I don't understand why people complain about things like this when the solution has been here for years. Try it, you'll like it.