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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
4wd:
At the risk of duplication I thought it might be useful to cross-post this recent, and rather relevant and informative comment from @4wd:
(Thanks @4wd - there are some extensions there that look quite handy and that I don't think I have tried out yet, so I shall get busy.)-IainB (February 26, 2015, 02:18 PM)
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Your welcome, though quite a few came from mentions elsewhere in the forum.
I should point out that Lightbeam is rendered pretty much useless by my browser settings and other add-ons, ie.
Options -> No third party cookies
Options -> All cookies session only (which is actually pointless due to setting below)
about:config -> browser.cache.disk.enable = false
about:config -> browser.cache.disk.capacity = 0
RefControl
RequestPolicy
Means that Lightbeam almost always displays a series of disconnected sites.
Target:
why write a post, if it doesn't get any attention?-Curt (February 26, 2015, 04:39 PM)
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The point wasn't about the content, it was about changing the title of someone else's thread without good reason
dunno about you but that doesn't seem like good forum etiquette to me :-\
IainB:
Any chance we can desist from amending thread titles
If a thread needs a new title then it probably needs a new thread
I understand you might be trying to draw attention to something but it's very disruptive if you've been following a thread for a while (it makes it seem like your just trying to draw attention to your post)
-Target (February 26, 2015, 03:49 PM)
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Sorry @Target, I did not intend to be "disruptive" and was only using the functionality built into this discussion board for our use, with the objective of focussing the comment subject line more specifically on the actual content of the post, so that people could get the sense of the content from the subject line without having to read the actual post.
Though I say so myself, I think I achieved that objective quite well with:
* Use of Firefox Sync to sync add-ons + etc. + Greasemonkey scripts. - is exactly what that post was about.
* Firefox (Pale Moon) Extensions used by @4wd. - is exactly what that post was about.
Otherwise, they might get somewhat lost in the unending series of posts entitled with the generic "Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful."
I do it because it's potentially helpful - for example, it's the sort of thing that I would find tremendously useful as I speed-scan my Bazqux feed-reader for posts that I might actually want to open and read.
I'm sure @mouser would have thought about the possibility of people doing this. Do you think he should block this feature?
why write a post, if it doesn't get any attention?-Curt (February 26, 2015, 04:39 PM)
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The point wasn't about the content, it was about changing the title of someone else's thread without good reason
dunno about you but that doesn't seem like good forum etiquette to me :-\
-Target (February 26, 2015, 10:27 PM)
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Goodness! :o I had no idea that it might be de rigeur in this forum to leave subject lines well alone because they belonged to the OP originator, or something. Let me see, hmm, that's @vegas, if I'm not much mistaken - and who started the thread on: 2005-12-02, 00:32:44
Target:
IanB
I thought I was making a polite request to maintain the integrity of a thread (any thread)
That was, at least, my intention but it seems I've touched a nerve
If you choose to draw some other conclusion then that's certainly your prerogative but this isn't the place the discuss it
Sorry @Target, I did not intend to be "disruptive"-IainB (February 27, 2015, 12:02 AM)
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please reread my post. I made no reference to anyone, and had that been my intention it would have been quite clear
...only using the functionality built into this discussion board for our use, with the objective of focussing the comment subject line more specifically on the actual content of the post, so that people could get the sense of the content from the subject line without having to read the actual post.
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seems kind of redundant to me. Writing a substantial description of an individual post in the subject line kind of defeats the purpose of writing the post.
Surely the subject line belongs to the thread?
they might get somewhat lost in the unending series of posts entitled with the generic "Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful."
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Sorry but this comes across (to me) as if you think your posts are somehow more important or more relevant than the rest of 'the unending series of posts'
I'm sure @mouser would have thought about the possibility of people doing this. Do you think he should block this feature?
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not sure what it is you think your asking me here or the relevance of this statement
Goodness! :o I had no idea that it might be de rigeur in this forum to leave subject lines well alone because they belonged to the OP originator, or something.
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FWIW this threads been running for about 9 years (about!! that's really got to get up the noses of the pedants out there!!) so there is a history of continuity, regardless of who the OP is or was.
let me be clear - I am not trying to be the arbiter of good behaviour here. I don't have that right any more than anyone else here.
I made a simple request, that's the end of. If you feel it's justified you might comply, if not, you won't (I'm guessing the latter) but it's not that important.
MilesAhead:
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So you can effectively have one master browser and all other iterations are slaves.
-4wd (February 26, 2015, 05:24 PM)
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Are you sure you're not using the old sync? In the new one, effectively everything is a merge unless you delete the online db. See mozilla forums for others saying the same.
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