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To: Bikkuri; Cyber Liberty
Speaking of scripts.. I AM using "Free Republic Tree Viewer" (cynwoody made it back a few years ago).. it makes reading these threads SO much easier.

Glad you like it!

BTW, you can run user scripts on Chrome.

It used to be as simple as clicking on a link to a JavaScript file ending in .user.js. Chrome would grab the contents, auto-generate a manifest file, and package the script into an instant junior-grade extension. No need for Greasemonkey!

But a problem arose, exacerbated by the rise of social media sites such as Facebook. Too many naive users were being gulled into installing malware packaged into user scripts. So, beginning with version 21, Chrome restricted the auto-install behavior to extensions on the Google App Store.

Now, if you want to install a script not on the App Store, you have to do it quite deliberately. Download the file onto your local file system (e.g., your Desktop or your Downloads folder). Then open the browser's extensions page (chrome://extensions), tick the Developer mode box, drag the file from your Finder or Explorer window to the the extensions page, and approve its installation. There will be a notation "Not from Chrome Web Store" beside it. See these two StackOverflow answers from last October and March 2011.

Believe it or not, I had never tried the above with the Tree Viewer. But I just did, and it worked. (More or less — it's failing to catch key chords for some reason. I'll have to look at it.)

I've fallen into the habit of running both Firefox and Chrome. E.g., FR in Firefox and the current article, etc., in a Chrome window alongside. For a while, Firefox was having a serious memory-leak bug. It would just gobble memory until you restarted. However, that was fixed a while back, and now Chrome is the memory hog, although Chrome's process per page architecture mitigates the problem somewhat.

158 posted on 04/12/2014 2:47:47 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Have had a problem with ‘editing’ my FR homepage for about 6 + months now... :/ sent several messages to AdminMods.. couldn’t help.. (btw, wiping cache shouldn’t have been a prob.. am on linux, and everything is wiped when I log out/shutdown..)..

The NEW situation (Mozilla/FF/(and, of course Google, which I have avoided for a couple of years anyway)all purged from my system).. Still couldn’t edit my own FReepPage (With a fresh install of Pale Moon)..

Anyway.. opened up Opera (still hate it).. and was able to edit/fix a bad link. Saved the edit.. and it worked....
Started Pale Moon again. And, again, couldn’t edit my own FR Homepage o.O ... must be one of the add-ons I brought from FF :/

Anyway.. IF anyone else has a problem editing their own homepage, just suggest them using Opera (still hate it) to edit and save..


159 posted on 04/12/2014 5:07:09 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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