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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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Trying to pull some things from the user Document:
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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.
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Cool!!!! I didn’t know it could be that easy. I’ll have to check that out.
Thanks,....I have it working on mint...64 bit version.
Thanks for the link.
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will this work on a mac? I do have & use Firefox.
Thank you. I got it to work. Now I’m working on getting it to work on Chrome.
For everyone’s info:
IE8 and IE7Pro:
Script error so that it apparently just won’t work with IE at all.
Works in both Firefox latest beta w/ Grease Monkey installed and Chrome, too.
Thank you. :-)
You need Grease-monkey...that may be the crucial issue.
I always thought the beauty of FR was that it did not have stuff like this. Don’t care for the DU look.
ME LIKE, Thanks!
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.
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.
Okay, so it seemed a little easier when I brainstormed it than when I ended up typing it.
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.
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.
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