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I'm sure people have told you before to use tribext for this or that reason, but you replied you were using IExx...

Tribext is a Firefox add-on specially for ET, written by someone. Unfortunately someone is hideously busily occupied with making black holes, so hasn't been able to develop it beyond Firefox 3.5.x (so it doesn't run on FF 3.6)

Tribext with FF 3.5 can allow you to

copy into a blockquote with title and link above it, an excerpt from an html page (article etc, or other ETer's comment or diary...) which you paste into your comment without further ado... that's how the news items in the Salon are done, like this, done with tribext:

Helen:

what is tribext ? What does it do ?

go straight to new comments in a thread without having to scroll for them.

should also provide for dynamic rating as on DKos, but I don't get that feature with FF 3.5.

There are other things I'm forgetting. But for the clip with title and link alone, it's invaluable.

Look down the left column till you see it mentioned.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 02:38:50 PM EST
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Making black holes to swallow the earth down (ker-plunk) is one way to get out of updating user software, I suppose.
by ATinNM on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 02:44:00 PM EST
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I dont know, Ive never been able to get out of helping users through my plans for world domination.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 04:06:40 PM EST
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(From one compu-software hacker to 'nudder ...)

It's never the software.  It's the user's expectations.

You just need to work on their mind, a bit.

;-)

by ATinNM on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 04:46:00 PM EST
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Oh, and a translate feature that you see with one language on the left, the other on the right.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 02:47:10 PM EST
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try it helen, you won't believe how much energy you save.

tidy little thing, a blogger's boon.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 03:07:19 PM EST
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sadly I've got FF 3.6, so no tribext for me.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 03:16:20 PM EST
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its worth downgrading to earlier versions just so it works, really.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 04:09:08 PM EST
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That's what I did.

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 04:43:00 PM EST
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How'd ya do that ?

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 05:55:48 PM EST
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I googled to find the earlier versions and took 3.6 off the computer and replaced it with an earlier one.  I'm trying to remember which old version I downloaded though...

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 06:02:54 PM EST
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Help menu, About Mozilla Firefox.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 02:14:45 AM EST
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3.5.8 - thanks!

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 03:38:24 AM EST
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Instructions in yesterdays salon

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Mar 9th, 2010 at 08:26:28 PM EST
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Oh (2), and double-click on an acronym and you get its definition.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Mar 10th, 2010 at 01:57:37 AM EST
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