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Firefox/Chrome Users: Get FR Tree View for Nested Threads on FR!
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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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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: browsers; browserstreeview; chrome; firefox; forums; freerepublic; greasemonkey; tree; treeview
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To: Dan Nunn; All
Very Nice....

Trying to pull some things from the user Document:

Free Republic Tree Viewer

***************************************EXCERPTS******************************************

Tree View Transformation
Normally, the posts in a Free Republic thread are listed in chronological (post number) order. This is the flat view.

Replies to a given post are scattered down through the thread. FR provides a View Replies link to check for replies, but it incurs a server delay and, in any case, only shows the first level of replies, not the replies to the replies, etc.

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FRTV can rearrange a thread's posts such that each one has its replies indented beneath it, and each reply in turn has its replies indented beneath it, etc., in a tree structure. We call this the tree view. By bringing replying posts closer to the post to which they are in reply, the tree view makes it easier to follow the various conversations that develop on a thread.

FRTV provides a button and a keyboard shortcut to toggle back and forth between the flat view and the tree view.

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Didn't see that.......before

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To activate the tree view, click the View as Tree button or key Ctrl-Alt-T.

61 posted on 04/09/2010 9:48:35 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Dan Nunn

Ping


62 posted on 04/09/2010 9:49:24 AM PDT by PoloSec (Note to Princess B H Obama: May PISS be Upon Mohammads Head...You Pervert)
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To: zeugma

Cool!!!! I didn’t know it could be that easy. I’ll have to check that out.


63 posted on 04/09/2010 9:52:22 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: zeugma

Thanks,....I have it working on mint...64 bit version.


64 posted on 04/09/2010 9:53:12 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Dan Nunn; hoagy62; zeugma
Anyone tried the The Scroll Box?
65 posted on 04/09/2010 9:56:03 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks for the link.


66 posted on 04/09/2010 10:01:38 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Nightshift

gnip


67 posted on 04/09/2010 10:06:14 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or ...off.)
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To: Dan Nunn

will this work on a mac? I do have & use Firefox.


68 posted on 04/09/2010 10:09:14 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
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To: Dan Nunn

Thank you. I got it to work. Now I’m working on getting it to work on Chrome.


69 posted on 04/09/2010 10:12:33 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron
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To: Dan Nunn

For everyone’s info:

IE8 and IE7Pro:

Script error so that it apparently just won’t work with IE at all.


70 posted on 04/09/2010 10:16:50 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron
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To: Dan Nunn

Works in both Firefox latest beta w/ Grease Monkey installed and Chrome, too.

Thank you. :-)


71 posted on 04/09/2010 10:20:13 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron
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To: DollyCali
I am guessing that it should....unless you have trouble with Javascript.,...

You need Grease-monkey...that may be the crucial issue.

72 posted on 04/09/2010 10:23:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Dan Nunn

I always thought the beauty of FR was that it did not have stuff like this. Don’t care for the DU look.


73 posted on 04/09/2010 10:44:50 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe
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To: Dan Nunn

ME LIKE, Thanks!


74 posted on 04/09/2010 10:59:59 AM PDT by KateUTWS (What would a leftist do without his self-righteousness?)
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To: Dan Nunn

Oh, this is cool. I’ve often wanted this for FR. Showing the nesting makes it easy to track replies. Thanks to whomever did this.


75 posted on 04/09/2010 11:33:25 AM PDT by raybbr (I hate B(ig) H(ead) Obama)
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To: zeugma

This truly is awesome. Now if you want to get a list of all the FReepers on a thread you can generate the report and copy all the posters into a reply.


76 posted on 04/09/2010 11:35:30 AM PDT by raybbr (I hate B(ig) H(ead) Obama)
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To: raybbr
Quick way to do it from the Poster Report:

Okay, so it seemed a little easier when I brainstormed it than when I ended up typing it.

77 posted on 04/09/2010 11:50:33 AM PDT by Dan Nunn (Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise. -The Great One)
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To: raybbr
This truly is awesome. Now if you want to get a list of all the FReepers on a thread you can generate the report and copy all the posters into a reply.

Yup. It's still kindof a pain. What would be a cool feature would be a button that would open a tab, and list out the users in a format such that you could copy/paste them into a reply. If I knew anything about greasemonkey and javascript, I'd try to do that myself, but alas, I'm not quite up to it, though I will take a look at the script and see if there is any obvious way to do it.

78 posted on 04/09/2010 11:53:26 AM PDT by zeugma (Waco taught me everything I needed to know about the character of the U.S. Government.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; DollyCali
There are postings that GreaseMonkey is a security flaw in Firefox:

Lessons from the Greasemonkey Security Flaw

79 posted on 04/09/2010 11:55:25 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obamacare, cap/trade, etc. - all have the same goal: Government control and power over individuals)
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Cool! Not fond of the colors but love tree view.

The colors help me track what level of indentation I'm on, but you could get rid of them by editing the script file. See my post 45 on where the file will be located (for Firefox). In Chrome it may be:

C:\Users\Dan\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\gojeondackiacclkpkfkcglebgncddof\1.0\script.js

Bold is the part that might change for you, and that's on Vista/Win7.

From there, open it up and on line 32, you'll see:

const BACKGROUNDS = ['#ccf', '#ffc', '#cfc', '#fcc', '#cff', '#fcf', '#ccc'];

If you change all of the "#XXX" (or whatever)s to #fff, it should disable the colors for the posts.

80 posted on 04/09/2010 12:02:01 PM PDT by Dan Nunn (Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise. -The Great One)
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