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Giovanna & fanfan - this is a thread that was in use in 2001 to test stylesheet features. Those features, via the FreeRepublic server, are now deprecated although there is a vestige of the old stylesheets in the Preferences section.

I'm not sure how you two even found this ancient thread. But I was using it to test out new related work that I've done (with JohnRob's approval) on building a custom Firefox extension for FreeRepublic. It provides new layout styles, complete control of thread layouts with stylesheets, inline YouTube and GoogleVideo, the ability to mark your own posts and those on a FRiends list with custom styles. And the preceding posts on this thread were to test the new HTML mini-editor that I've built for the Posting Comments page including posting graphic smilies and special characters and ordered/unordered lists easily.

If anyone is interested, I'm looking for beta testers now. So far, only JohnRob and steveegg have used this. I'd prefer testers with some experience with Firefox and an understanding of how to navigate through their own folders. But I'm looking for complete beginners with Firefox. The idea here is to provide something that changes the entire look and feel of FR but that adds features but without burdening the FR server or altering FR's page output in any way. All extra features run as an extension to Firefox only.

Naturally, this new extension, FRstyle, is open-source Javascript with XUL markup so the code can be inspected by anyone.

Anyone who is interested in beta testing this extension can send me a FReepmail. Indicate your level of computer expertise and whether you're a Firefox beginner or veteran. I'll probably start the beta test in a week or so.