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.
it's a reference to the US version of the Office. Isn't it?
Yes, it is. In the episode "The Injury" (Season 2, episode 12), Dwight shows Pam how durable her Prism DuroSport is by telling her to chuck it across the room: "It's like an iPod, only better, cause it's chunkier and more solid."
You can set this color scheme as the default using Slashdotter by changing the extensions.slashdotter.stylesheet value in about:config to "fool" (no quotes).
I just downloaded Bon Echo and tested Slashdotter; it works, and I've uploaded a compatible version (1.2.2) to the Mozilla Addons site. It should be approved anytime within 1 day to 3 weeks (based on past experiences). In the meantime, it's available here.
But where do I configure the extension, like to turn on/off various features like you can do it firefox?
The options dialog for the Slashdotter uses some XUL tags that weren't supported until Firefox 1.5, and not supported at all in Mozilla or Seamonkey. This isn't necessarily a problem, since you can't get to the options dialog in those browsers anyway.
If you want to change the options for Slashdotter without the dialog, call up the page about:config. Slashdotter's options all start with extensions.slashdotter. The boolean ones are pretty straight-forward, and the stylesheet one is the subdomain of the section that you want to style Slashdot as (e.g. apple, it, games, etc.) or blank to disable it.
I believe the only thing that wouldn't work on pre-1.5 versions would be the options dialog, which uses some new XUL introduced in 1.5. I may post links to modified versions of the extension on its homepage that will work with earlier Firefox versions, but they wouldn't have the pretty options dialog that the official version would have.
why is the extension not compatible with the current nightlies?
Mostly because I don't use the nightly builds and thus wouldn't be testing on them. Is it possible to install them without upgrading my installation of 1.5.0.1? If so, I'd be happy to test it on them and post a compatible version of the extension.
Depending on how big the differences between Camino and Firefox are, it may work already, but I'll have to find someone with a Mac who will either test it for me or let me test it before I can list Camino as a supported browser on the Mozilla Addons site.
But now I can't see tags anymore, even though I unchecked "hide tags"
Whoops. That'll be fixed as soon as 1.2.1 is approved by a Mozilla admin; in the meantime, if you like Slashdotter and want to show tagging, you can download the new version from my site.
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.
That may sound like a huge amount of money, especially when you consider that the company was launched just two years ago by a group of sophomores at Harvard University, led by Mark Zuckerberg
I wonder when slashcode is going to support inserting.nyud.net:8090 to all post links automatically?
The Slashdot Firefox extension, as mentioned above, does this, with the option to have any of Coral Cache, Google Cache, and MirrorDot links added after each link in a Slashdot story.
It has a few other features, with lots more planned for v 1.2.
No stock news based on stocks in your portfolio...
Are you sure? I added Google, Dell, Apple, and GE to my portfolio, and now the main Finance page has a whole section called "Related News" that just happens to be filled with stories about Google, Dell, Apple, and GE.
Slashdot Mirror
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.
You can set this color scheme as the default using Slashdotter by changing the extensions.slashdotter.stylesheet value in about:config to "fool" (no quotes).
If you want to change the options for Slashdotter without the dialog, call up the page about:config. Slashdotter's options all start with extensions.slashdotter. The boolean ones are pretty straight-forward, and the stylesheet one is the subdomain of the section that you want to style Slashdot as (e.g. apple, it, games, etc.) or blank to disable it.
That may sound like a huge amount of money, especially when you consider that the company was launched just two years ago by a group of sophomores at Harvard University, led by Mark Zuckerberg
Hmmm...
/ Adds Mark Zuckerberg to his friends.
It has a few other features, with lots more planned for v 1.2.