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How does this play with the AJAX comments abilities of the Slashdotter Firefox extension?

I tried it for awhile, didn't like it, and turned it back. It was too....different. I felt like I was missing comments. For the time being, the Slashdotter Firefox plugin seems to work well for me. AJAX-fied collapsible comments, and some nice other features, too. It chokes sometimes on deeper level comments and the expanding, but for the most part it works very well.

http://www.efinke.com/addons/slashdotter/

I can't speak for the pre-2006 Netscape, but as far as the current Netscape organization is concerned, I have to disagree with you regarding transparency.

* The former GM, Jason Calacanis, blogged extensively about Netscape and encouraged other employees to do the same. He also called out other industry big-wigs for "not having time" to blog about their product.
* Many Netscape Anchors, Navigators, and developers have an active blog where they write about Netscape and/or are available to discuss it.
* There is the official Netscape blog where we detail new and/or upcoming features and ask for discussion and feedback.
* Netscape.com holds a weekly chat when there is guaranteed to be an Anchor in attendance.
* As developers, we are encouraged to be active in the community; we haven't been given any explicit "gag orders," so we're free to speak for Netscape (as I'm doing now) if the need arises.

Can the above be said to be true for Digg, del.icio.us, reddit, etc.? I'd have to say that of all the current players in the social news space, Netscape is one of the most (if not the most) forthcoming and transparent about their operations.

You make several good points that I want to respond to more fully, but I've got to run out, so I'll have to do that later. In the meantime, I'll put this out there: my e-mail address is chris@newnetscape.com; my screenname and other contact information is available at my website. Anyone who wishes to do so can contact me regarding issues with any of the Netscape websites or the Netscape browser; if I can't solve your problem, I can definitely get you connected with the right person.

anybody working at Netscape now was hired since then.

Both of you, eh? Does your imaginary co-work also live in New Mexico and use a GMail accounts?

Meh. At least the chick you hired to pose as your wife is worth a tug. Praise be.

...but was unable to completely wipe out the information for those geeks with the Slashdotter Extension.

Coral Cache, Google Cache, and Mirrordot all remain stable in the face of the slashdotting...

You can get that now with the Slashdotter extension. It puts a Javascript "Hide Replies" link at the bottom of each comment that lets you hide all of that comment's replies. It's really nice when the comment looks like it has a ton of replies and you don't care about any of them. Also, load comments below your threshhold without reloading the page, and some other neat features.

Just install the following extension:-

http://www.efinke.com/url-fixer/

Corrects common .com typos for you.

The Slashdotter Firefox Extension does that.

*Please* don't select a winner that breaks the slashdotter extension.

I haven't had a look at the code for the slashdotter, but I hope it's robust enough to deal with CSS changes like this contest suggests without breaking.

Unfortunately, robustness doesn't seem to be the general rule with Mozilla extensions, which seem to break with every upgrade or site change. Sometimes it seems as if half of the Greasemonkey scripts don't work any more because the pages they were designed to work with have changed.

The one the surprizes me the most is the Venkman JavaScript debugger. Usually developer tools are the first things that get ported to a new version of any platform because the developers are using it themselves, but for some reason, the Venkman debugger is frequently non functional on the latest version of Firefox.

Oh well. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope this contest doesn't break slashdotter or that the extension gets updated quickly afterwards.

P.S. I hope you can't tell that SpellBound is broken on my installation of FireFox.

I'm not a designer, but my suggestion would be to somehow incorporate the improvements found in the Slashdotter Firefox extension (formerly, greasemonkey script).

The ability to load comments without refreshing the page (and losing my place in the overall thread) is wonderful, as is the ability to seamlessly Hide replies to an off-topic discussion that has gotten highly Modded.

That added flexibility does more for the design than anything else I can think of adding.

This is due to some changes made to Slashdot's HTML on March 31. The new version is compatible with the new HTML.

There's got to be a better site for Firefox extensions.

You can hide tagging, if you want to.

Or you could just download the newest version of Slashdotter, which has the Ponies theme supported out of the box.

Or you could just change the extensions.slashdotter.stylesheet preference in about:config to "fool". But that way, you don't get the bugfixes in the new version.

Features(Score:5, Funny) by donnyspi (701349) on Wednesday March 29, @02:53AM (#15013379) (http://www.donnyspi.com/) Does the extension automatically remove dupes and fix typos in the titles of submitted stories??? [ Reply to This ] Re:Features by michaelmoran (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @02:58AM Re:Features by MyLongNickName (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @02:59AM Re:Features(Score:5, Informative) by Jugalator (259273) on Wednesday March 29, @03:12AM (#15013547) (Last Journal: Tuesday February 14, @05:41AM) If it parsed the story tag "dupe" (which actually are in DIV's using the CSS class "tags", so they should be identifiable), and could associate these tags with their detailed story (DIV's with CSS class "details"), these DIV's can then be hidden by applying the appropriate collapsing "display:none" style, and if you've got this far, possibly also add a link to expand these collapsed stories if you're still interested. -- DRM is Theft [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Features by TheSpoom (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @04:48AM Re:Features by Rebelgecko (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @05:30AM Re:Features by i.of.the.storm (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @05:48AM 1 reply beneath your current threshold. Re:Features by Yst (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:17AM Re:Features by just_another_sean (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @06:41AM Re:Features by Perl-Pusher (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:17AM Re:Features by Wannabe Code Monkey (Score:3) Wednesday March 29, @03:23AM Re:Features by networkBoy (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:30AM Re:Features by RzUpAnmsCwrds (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @03:45AM Re:Features by mrchaotica (Score:3) Wednesday March 29, @08:02AM 1 reply beneath your current threshold. The real question by rrkap (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:25AM 1 reply beneath your current threshold. Re:Features by Speare (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @09:51AM 1 reply beneath your current threshold. What about IE? by skynare (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @02:53AM Re:What about IE? by vwjeff (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @04:35AM Re:What about IE? by christopherfinke (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:40AM Re:What about IE? by christopherfinke (Score:3) Wednesday March 29, @03:57AM 1 reply beneath your current threshold. 1 reply beneath your current threshold. Awesome by Zardus (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @02:53AM Re:Awesome by Zardus (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @02:56AM Re:Awesome(Score:5, Informative) by christopherfinke (608750) on Wednesday March 29, @02:59AM (#15013436) (http://www.efinke.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday March 30, @11:24PM) Looks like the select-text replies aren't AJAX, but it turns the reply to this link into an AJAX-enabled thingy. The AJAX replies feature isn't for replying to comments, it's for those links that say "X Replies below your threshold." It makes it so you don't have to load a new page to see those replies. Now we just have to wait for the VCs to come along and dump millions on the poor guy for using the word AJAX. Woohoo! [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Awesome by liliafan (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @03:06AM Re:Awesome by SigILL (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @03:21AM Re:Awesome by MyLongNickName (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:25AM Re:Awesome by SigILL (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:34AM Re:Awesome by redheaded_stepchild (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:49AM Re:Awesome by MyLongNickName (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @03:37AM Re:Awesome by SigILL (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @05:10AM Re:Awesome by fbjon (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @05:17AM Re:Awesome by MyLongNickName (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @05:43AM Re:Awesome by SigILL (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @05:52AM Re:Awesome by MyLongNickName (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @05:58AM Re:Awesome by liliafan (Score:1) Wednesday March 29, @03:36AM Re:Awesome by rholliday (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @04:01AM Re:Awesome by christopherfinke (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @04:04AM Re:Awesome by rholliday (Score:2) Wednesday March 29, @04:06AM Re:Awesome by

No Bon Echo support? :(

Gota version for FF 1.0.7?

I'm blocked by Websense from downloading this extension

But now I can't see tags anymore, even though I unchecked "hide tags"

Stop whining, you moron! ;-)