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Posted on 04/09/2010 7:15:31 AM PDT by Dan Nunn
Some of you may know about this gem, but I want to make sure every Firefox and Chrome user knows about the beauty of FR Tree View.
I'm not taking credit for it, I don't know which FReeper wrote the software. But it's amazing! It makes following long, nested threads much easier. See a screen shot here:
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Glad you enjoy it! I feel lost when I browse FR accidentally in Safari - I instantly copy and paste the URL into Chrome and get back to reading.
Some of you may know about this gem, but I want to make sure every Firefox and Chrome user knows about the beauty of FR Tree View.I love it! It makes the FR experience much better. Thank you cynwoody! I also use the other tools listed on cynwoody's profile page: Absolutify, and Free Republic Posting Form Enhancer. The later has been enormously appreciated. It makes FR postings with enhanced html throughout, easy, easier to read, and more eye-catching. I also love that this is so customizable, if we are so inclined and able: I originally stumbled onto these tools because I know a little javascript and greasemonkey, and was hoping to write a tool that watches for the names of 20 or 30 hecklers that troll and infect the threads I visit. I wanted the tool to automatically block specific heckler's drivel as the page loaded, before I saw it, so that I wouldn't accidentally read any of them, and get my blood pressure boiling. Ideally the pre-processor would keep a list of names, maybe in the greasemonkey's .js file, and whenever if finds one of those users, it would replace their tripe with something like... ...much like JimRob does with deletions ...or if its any easier, leave the header and footer of the heckler's post alone and just replace their internal content. To: Dan, cyn, or anyone else on this thread, could you suggest how to possibly go about tweaking FR Tree View to accomplish the ignoring of specific individuals, as I've described here? ...and to others that I 'cc'ed: What is FRTrollBlocker or killfile? or kill filter? and how do I find out more about these or get them? and will they still work if FRTreeView is already running on the same threads? |
I tried that awhile back. I’ve gone back to the basic view. In doing my daily ping I find the basic view easier to work with.
Warning!
It’s not a good idea to use this on a long thread. Switching to tree view forces it to load the entire thread on one page, which can be a real problem on a multi-thousand post live thread, plus it takes a while to load.
It defeats the purpose of having pages, and will send the bandwidth usage through the roof. Worst case, it could bring down the entire FR system if a lot of people are using it.
“Form Enhancer” is awesome! I’ve been using it for months on Firefox.
BFL when I’m not on an iPad....
bflr
NICE! Working great on FF on Win 7.
Hope it works as well on FF on my Macs and Linux boxes.
Works great on my Chrome on Mac OS X Lion.
| OK, here is an update... I found the sourcecode for "killfile" on my own at... http://snowplow.org/martin/greasemonkey/killfile.user.js ...and it is already configured to work with FR. I temporarily turned off "FR Tree View" to test "killfile" This killfile script adds two extra links to every post: [kill][hide comment] to the right of the regular [Report Abuse] link. I like that. The [hide comment] is pretty useless because it does not read thru the rest of the thread and hide all the rest of the comments by the same A-hole user, but [kill] DOES! yea!! And I see that once [kill]ed, the A-hole is gone, even on other threads, AND I could exit Firefox and later restart it, and it still kept blocking the drivel from the a-hole. AND it can remember MULTIPLE a-holes. I don't know what the limit is, but I will likely find out. The listing of posters whom you never want to read, is called a "Killfile.Trolllist" and is a string variable kept in about:config. The formatting of that is just a tiny bit tricking, but if I choose to add any more names manually, it should not be too bad. Then I turned "FR Tree View" back on to see if they were compatible together. It seems they are, partially. In regular "FLAT" view they both look good. [kill][hide comment] and [QUOTE] are all there for each post! yea! And [kill] still works, and [QUOTE] still works. Even the [POSTER REPORT] button still works. However [UNQUOTE] does not work, the quoted material never goes away... OK I can live with that. Once I hit a Quote button, I'll just leave it there, and never unquote it. Thats fine. Then I tried the [TREE VIEW] button. THAT took 30 seconds on a thread not all that large, where it used to take a fraction of one second. And then more troubling was that the [kill][hide comment] buttons were gone. So then in summary, I guess I can live with just letting FRTreeView always load in its default "FLAT VIEW" mode, because then I will still have its wonderful QUOTE button, and its sometimes-interesting POSTER REPORT> And I am really starting to love using "killfile" to do my own personal zots of the FR heckler-trolls on many FR threads!!! oh, I see I will need to tweak killfile.user.js slightly... It kicks in for any url like... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/#######/posts, (or /f-chat/ ) but not for urls... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/#######/posts ...a simple fix, I am sure. If anyone knows the whereabouts of FRTrollBlocker.user.js, please let me know, and also if you've compared that to killfile.user.js Thanks! FUE |
Chrome 16.0. Poster report click generates a new tab, empty, with about:blank in the address bar.
Yeah good point, I don’t think poster report has ever worked for me on Chrome. Just tree view.
If you want to try Linux, I’d strongly recommend that you get VMWare player and install it there. Once you have a distro installed in vmware, you can even make it full screen, and you can’t tell the difference from running it on bare metal. I use VMs a lot, though I went ahead and purchased Workstation. Player if free though, and you can install as many VMs as you have disk space for.
OK. I didn’t realize this is an undead thread. I just realized that my previous post to you was in response to a comment you left on Fri 09 Apr 2010
KILLFILE - saved for later
FOR MY OWN REFERENCE (or for others too)
The KILLFILE I used to use for FreeRepublic with Firefox in 2012 stopped working.
I found a NEWER VERSION here, that DOES still work TODAY.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blog-killfile/
There was/is also an installation available for CHROME, that I found via this page:
http://lifehacker.com/5919997/how-to-install-extensions-that-arent-from-the-official-chrome-web-store
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