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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."
That sounds pretty cool, I will go and download it right now, hmmm with all the extensions I am running my firefox is becoming bloatware :op time to remove a few I think.
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Does the extension automatically remove dupes and fix typos in the titles of submitted stories???
Too bad that use IE. T.T
This is awesome. The greasemonkey script that adds mirror links keeps bugging out. I hope this will work better.
Also, I think the replies are AJAX. Woo
You can mod your friends, you can mod your nose, but you can't mod your friend's nose.
There's no error in what you highlighted.
FP using Slashdotter-Firefox Extension's "Reply to Selected Text" option.
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No Bon Echo support? :(
Good karma sticks to me like velcro on a piece of plexiglass.
Move along, citizen.
I thought this extension allowed me to slashdot sites while I browse. :O)
Seriously though, I like this feature:
* You can choose to have all Slashdot pages styled like one of Slashdot's sections. For example, if you're a fan of the Games section's hideous purple and black color scheme, you can have every Slashdot page look just as horrifying!
Why doesn't anyone make any Opera js scripts? :(
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very nice, i've been using 1.1 since last week. helped a couple of times with dead links.
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I think you'll find that the grammatically correct version would have been "All your Slashdotter feature are belong to optional". HTH
I've been working on Slashdotter Firefox extension for Slashdot users...
This dude needs a job!
Aren't you going to make one for IE? How about IE7?
...that gets added to your posts whenever you use the contraption.
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links in the comment sections that allow you to toggle open/closed all of a comments replies, and more.
Thank you. Sometimes I don't even want to see the flames the come after a person makes an unpopular comment. Nice job.
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it looks good, but one question before I install it--can you style just one section to use another's? I would find this infinitely useful in the IT section, as I can barely tell where one comment ends and another begins.
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!..
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This was the first I had heard about this exstension. I've been using it for the last half hour or so and I'm very pleased. It really does make browsing /. here a more enjoyable experience.
/. anyways, such as things that you find at Digg like AJAX comment retrieval - things that are not at all hard to implement that can dramatically increase the user experience. Nevertheless, I'm not really too surprised by /.'s apparent slowness in embracing new web technologies considering how long it took them to simply make this site fully standardized in CSS
/. pages in general now take a bit longer to load, but not so long that it makes the plug-in not worthwhile, especially since it facilitates the speed of navigation in other ways.
I find some of the additions of the extension to be things that really should have be built into
One negative aspect of the extension, however, is that it seems to me that, depending on the feature set you have enabled,
All of you should check this out for sure!
Falun Dafa is good!
I for one would welcome an insert "imagine a beowolf cluster" or "welcome our evil overlords" or "netcraft confirms" or "all your base are" or "in soviet russia" button. That would be great.
eh? "All of Slashdotter's features?" I'm working on these definitions:
Slashdot, n, slashdot.org
Slashdotter, n, one who uses slashdot.org
I'm pretty sure that's right, so the sentece should be "All of Slashdot's features" if the features belong to the site, or "All of a Slashdotter's features", if the features belong to the individual who uses the site
Now i have to think up some witty comment just so i can test this thing out... *cough*
I'm using it right now and this story is the only one whose link is not paired with a set of cache links. Odd.
I pretend to know more than I really do by mooching off google and wikipedia.
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That's a feature I've long wanted -- every time some early bird gets a +5 for some offtopic spraying about Iraq or creationism that pulls 200 responses, I wish for it yet again. Thanks, developers!!!!
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Thanks Dude I will give this extension a try.
Does it have a First Post button? Imagine the millions of man-hours per day saved by people hitting that button rather than typing all that manually.
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I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of slashdotters cried out as the restarted firefox at once...
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
All of Slashdotter's features are optional, and the extension is compatible with Firefox, the Mozilla Suite, Seamonkey, and Flock.
What about Camino? Don't forget the Mac fanatics!
Funny, funny. I'm blocked by Websense from downloading this extension - or any Firefox extension from addons.mozilla.org here in the bowels of Iraq.
/. Someone has some incredibly skewed priorities.
But obviously I can still post to
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Where is the 'First Post' button, that guarantees a First Post in the story?
You can't handle the truth.
I installed this and used the 'Reply to Selected Text' feature. It inserts 'blockquote' tags. Shouldn't it insert 'cite' tags? I like my quotes to be italicised, not just indented. Indentation does not seem to be proper quoting to me.
I went under the Preferences and changed the Quick Reply Format. But it got me thinking what is the difference between blockquote + adding italics and simply the cite tag?
Don't take this as a complaint - rather a matter of curiosity - why is the extension not compatible with the current nightlies? I find many useful extensions aren't and they're taking longer to update to be compatible with this release than others in the past. I presume it will be at some point, so why not now - is this a particularly nasty task?
I look forward to using the extension when it is.
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Does it have a button to add an anonymous "first post" message to all the articles on the front page? It doesn't even need to look at the number of responses already posted. That seems to be one of the most common exercises done on slashdot.
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Other features include automatic flogging of Authors for posting duplicates. I.Q. filter, so we won't see any of Zonk's posts. Oh, and bad grammar maker. Gotta have that.
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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.
Seems hazy if an author should be allowed to submit a story to /. about his own project.
cool :) props to you. I like it.
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Even if this software its safe. Having the same extensions is a call for problems, because a tiny hole will exploit the monocultive..
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I suggest most people avoid this extension, and use only if really needed.
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The real question is: When will this new extension automatically insert Soviet Russia and Beowolf cluster jokes?
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Thanks for the extension and thanks for making it work with SeaMonkey.
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Automatically delete the comments (and replies) with goatse and similar links, please!
Maybe I'm not seeing this because I added this as a site-wide addin but most plugins add a new entry under preferences dialo. Some (Adblock) add a menu item under tools instead.
I can't find preferences for slashdotter on SeaMonkey although the reply, [CC}, and collapse replies work fine.
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And, I don't want to upgrade to Ff 1.5 to use it. I'm quite happy with Ff 1.0.7.
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For very popular articles, it should offer a link to the coral cache of the mirrordot version!
Actually, "All Slashdotter's features" is the most correct, but "All of Slashdotter's features" is not something I would ever say is a big grammar error.
What a great extension - it just made it straight onto my (fairly short) list of installed Firefox add-ins.
One minor request: any chance we could customise the reply to selected text option? At the moment, it just seems to wrap everything in blockquote tags, which doesn't necessarily yield well-formed HTML, and might not match someone's preferred quoting style.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
Funny, it reminds me of an idea I had thought about previously. Why not have a "first post this comment" while you're typing, so that it will encode the string inside your comment with steganography?
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The one thing that irritates me about slashcode is the "slow down cowboy!" with that mandatory waiting period before you can reply. If my karma's high enough, it's a good assumption that I'm not going to post nonsense, and that in fact I have something to say with a quicker response time. Slashcode apparently thinks otherwise. I don't liek the fact when I have something to say, I have to wait x amount of minutes before posting it.
It also discourages meaningful, brief replies if the time between "reply" and "submit" is too short. Does the firefox extension fix that problem?
Actually, I believe that before a pronoun or proper noun, "all of" is better. For instance: all of us, all of France, all of Slashdotter's, etc. That's what my dictionary tells me, at any rate.
Gota version for FF 1.0.7?
BTW, can you implement a "mod parent up/down" request, where you can select which tags to be used? as in informative, insightful, troll etc.?
It's going to take more than that to get all the readers you lost to Digg to come back.. bwahahaha!
Does the firefox extension fix that problem?
That would be controlled on the server, not in your client, so no extension could "fix" it.Xbox reviews.. We think they're funny.
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The extension doesn't work with Firefox 1.0.7. I was enticed when I saw it in a comment earlier. Is there an easy way to upgrade to 1.5 in Ubuntu? I'm already using the universe repos.
Wow! This will make wasting time so much more efficient!
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What amazes me is IE has been around HOW MUCH longer than FireFox and they still don't have this add in as a default feature?
dupes and typos remove and fix YOU!
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.
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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.
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Nowhere in the world but /. will you find grammar nazis (sorry, nazi's,) that don't know grammar.
Yikes.
Later versions will include a feature that automatically votes for the "Cowboy Neal" option in Slashdot polls.
Slashdot's comments section has such a broken UI, I was actually thinking the other day to write a program to help me navigate it. Props to you for making that unnessisary.
I have some ideas about what is broken on Slashdot. Some of them would require actual site modifications to fix, other could be fixed with a browser extention.
If you want more bugs, how about:
- When I'm in the post writing screen, there is no text of the story or link to it, so I have to open Slashdot in another tab and go to the story to read it.
- The comments index is very, very broken. The "threshholds" concept's three drop-down menus (-1:5), (Threaded/Nested/Flat/No comments), (Oldest 1st/Newest 1st/Highest 1st/Oldest 1st Ignore threads/Newest 1st Ignore threads), and the "Comments spill at 50" concept interact in bizzare ways such that I don't even know what it's *trying* to do.
- I *hate* the fact that comments below your viewing threshhold are listed at the bottom of the thread level instead of between the posts that it was replying to and got a reply from. So you sometimes see people seemingly reply to themselves, or flaming others, but they are actually replying to something below your viewing threshhold. I've seen arguments start this way, because someone thinks a flame was directed at them instead of to the AC that replied to them earlier. Please. for the love of god, put in an indicator if there is a post below the threshhold that a post is replying to.
- I would like to be able to view the whole comments section as a threaded, subject-only(that is, no expanded posts) view, and open up individual posts which will open up in a nested, all-open veiw. Perhaps allow right-clicks on post titles should allow you to open up the comment and its follow-ups with any pre-specified threshhold options?
- Instead of three drop-down menus in the comment index, how about a list of rules which we can rearrange the order of to make settings? Might require AJAX.
- Slashdot's user prefs allow me to "bias" the moderation towards funny, or informative, or other moderation types, but it is a PITA to change it for each story. Some stories I want to read in "funny" mode, others I want to read in "Informative" mode. I should be able to change the bias to one of several presets like on an Winamp equalizer on a per-story basis.
AArh. Not available for deerpark :(
Available only till 1.5*
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.
I don't see how this plug in will improve the quality of people's comments. Now instead of thinking about it for 10 seconds, they'll only think about it for 2. Talking about the average of course... and yes there are a lot of off-topic/pointless posts everywhere ;)
They should make the extension SLOW them down and think twice...
It's all good.. been looking for something like this for a while - well done
Once again, Slashdot catches up to 4chan and makes me laugh harder. :D
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Damn , no First Post menu option.
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And how about "Auto-troll", "Mod This Up", "Your Momma"
If a Firefox VRML Extension extends Firefox to control VRML objects, then a Slashdot Firefox Extension should extend Slashdot to control Firefox browsers.
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I still prefer stand alone Coral Cache extension for all Web sites links, not just /. Very useful on Digg too.
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When I click one of the "hide replies" links, I go to http://www.slashdot.org/UL, which just shows me the front page. Does this work for anyone else?
I love it. Great work dude. It is good to see the Grammer Nazis all being wrong. It is quite amusing.
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we will be able to /. web sites faster?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I just installed it and it deleted all my themes.Death.
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Yep, it works
Wow. Cool. Now *that's* service.
;-)
As long as you're taking requests....
I usually browse with comments with a medium-high threshold. When I find a thread that looks interesting, I middle-click the comment ID (the "#12345" link after the time in the header) of the top post of said thread to open it in a new tab. Then I change that thread to a -1 threshhold, Nested, and redisplay, to see the whole thing.
It would be really nice (for me) to have that available in an automated way. Maybe on the menu when right-clicking the comment ID or something.
I would understand if this is considered too esoteric a feature. Maybe it could be generalized somehow.
Either way, thanks for the cool tool!
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I was serious! :(
What's really cool about all this is Taco doesn't have to see it. Now that he's gone WebStandards, the users can write things like this to manipulate the DOM directly. It's got many of the benefits of a fat client (for the set of problems that can be solved with DOM manipulation) but it's still the web if you're on another platform.
Maybe somebody will come up with a tag for suggested extensions for a site and Slashdot would want to serve it out directly. Just don't call it Web 2.5!
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OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Does it show the X-Bender response?
;-)
Now, you DO know that Slashdot adds an X-Bender HTTP response which comprises of random quotes taken from Futurama at each query, now, do you ? Yes ? Ok, just checkin'
That was funniest of the day! ROTFL!
I don't see the grammatical error in the bolded text. There is a comma splice, though.
Remember: if the two phrases sound good alone, use a period or a semicolon!
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Maybe this extension could let me see the original summary when replying to a comment. On rare occassions, I decide I should actually check the summary, or even the article itself, before hitting "Submit."
(Or is this already an option somewhere?)
This is terribly useful and well done, which is just going to bug the sheer hell out of me when I kill time at work reading /. and not having Firefox or the plugin to play with. Thanks, author, for making my workday just that much more of a relative grind!
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I find that I'm reading slashdot less and less. The comments are useless 50% of the time, the moderation system is too limiting and hard to enforce. The sites adoption of new technologies is slow as molasses and the control of story submissions is aggravating.
Digg, fark and sites like osnews have gotten it correct. The power has been put into the hands of the people, the submission system on digg is open, the site is a joy to navigate. "digg"ing a story gives a satisfaction that's difficult to describe. The comments there are shorter, easier to read, easier on the eyes.
I feel sadness that slashdot now looks like it's going to fade into insignificance. And hopefully the people who run it will not be too upset as the user base dwindles. The site ran itself for years with no major user facing changes. Slashcode has come and gone as far as I'm concerned.
I know that I'm not going to renew my subscription. And further, I'm too chicken to even post this with my real name and not AC, because it seems that Slashdot has never been friendly to user feedback anyway.
So mark me a troll and mark me flamebait but I'm still sad that a site I've used since 1998 is coming to and end for me.
Just in case anyone out there is looking for a new extension project, Firefox needs a really good auto fill feature. Anyone who has used Safari a lot knows just how helpful good auto fill is. There are a few extensions out there already, but they don't hold a candle to Safari. I use FF anyway though primarily because of how amazing adblock is.
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I have a (grease)monkey on my back... seriously, I'm addicted to all the stuff I can do with that plugin. In fact, the first thing I thought when I read the summary for this was, I wondered if it was too intense to be written as a gm script :)
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Okay, that plus I don't think I could copy my profile easily back and forth amongst my XP box and my FF for Mac and a Camino install also, and have it all just work. FF on Mac understood my XP profile just fine.
Unfortunately, FF 1.5 crashes on my Mac almost once a day, and the previous version did not.
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How depressing! I thought a plugin called "slashdotter" would've been used to take down web servers =P
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I am probably falling for this, but you were right to say nazis, not nazi's.
I actually started using this a few days before this story broke. I like being able to customize which theme is used by default. (I use the linux one because I think black just looks better than teal.) I used to use some Greasemonkey scripts to enable just about the same functionality that this extension does but the thing that I think is really missing from Greasemonkey is an auto script updater. One has been made http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2296 but I'm sure that this works with very few scripts as of now.
The 'first post' function is not working.
I've been working on Slashdotter Firefox extension for Slashdot users, and version 1.2 has been approved by the Mozilla admins.
Since when did Mozilla admins have to approve extensions?
Good point, you technically should have paragraphs inside of blockquotes. I'd dispense with the i tag though - blockquote gives it enough visual distinction, and italics are generally harder to read. Putting a largish quote in all italics is a bad idea.
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When Slashdot produces one of those irritating "You need to wait a while before posting" errors, I'd like the plugin to store the HTTP POST data and quietly retry every now and again until the post goes through.
Currently I leave a tab open and go back to it and retry, but it's annoying because it seems to be totally random how much time Slashdot will require to elapse before the post can go in. I've had it tell me to slow down because I posted 35 minutes ago.
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Actually, I'd be worried if dupes were tagged as such when they're put up; if the editor realizes it's a dupe, why's it up in the first place?
Users add the tags, not the editors.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.