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."

Opera?

[Poromenos1]

Why doesn't anyone make any Opera js scripts? :(

Yay!.. Taco did you see that?

[CptnHarlock]

I've been hoping for Taco to include the "colapse thread" feature for a long time. I still think it should be native instead as in the form of a plugin - then everyone could (and probably would) use it.

It would make it a lot easier to find the next real comment after a comment tree created by some Troll post... Another positive thing is that we'd get rid of the "high positioning" replies that normaly end up in the first tree. Are you listening Taco?.. :)

Cheers!..

Re:FP!

[christopherfinke]

FP using Slashdotter-Firefox Extension's "Reply to Selected Text" option.

Nope; this [slashdot.org] was.

Thank You

[Spad]

All of Slashdotter's features are optional, and the extension is compatible with Firefox, the Mozilla Suite, Seamonkey, and Flock.

As a Seamonkey user, I'm really sick of Firefox extensions that refuse to work because the author couldn't be bothered to check them properly, so thank you for taking the time.

Re:Features

[Wannabe Code Monkey]

Does the extension automatically remove dupes and fix typos in the titles of submitted stories???

No, but I just used it to reply to your post, and it works pretty well. In the quick reply section of the preferences, I put this in for my format:

<p><i>%s</i></p>

And it works great.

Re:FP!

[SydShamino]

Any chance that we could, as an option, replace this with "Reply to Selected Text in a New Tab"?

I prefer to have my existing tab unchanged when creating replies, so I can browse back and forth through my whole browsing history while crafting my reply.

The times they....

[fm6]

You're right about needing to be able to skip a comment tree. You don't even need a fancy collapse feature — just a link that means, "go to the next comment at this level". I often don't bother to look at popular stories because I know I'll never have the patience to find my way past all the trolling, irrelevent jokes, and shoot-from-the-lip flame wars that the initial posters always indulge in.

This wasn't such a big deal when I started following Slashdot 5 years ago. But there are a lot more users now. It's really pathetic when any popular site is unable to evolve with the times — but when it's Slashdot, you want to cry.

Re:Thank God...

[jamie]

Not all of it, but we are working on a lot of this (in fact it's a little scary how close some of your ideas are to ours :)

Stay tuned...