Mozilla Add-ons....

[alfreda89]

You know you have a different map of the world when you cannot find add-ons you need with the search words you enter. I know there's a good add-on for editing inside of bulletin boards/blogs, for HTML with URLs, italics, etc. I could still use this, despite Live Journal's upgrades to their system. Can't remember the name, and a friend is holding my tower incognito!

And I still want an add-on that will tell me when I last visited a site. I need to tidy up cobwebs!

I've decided to modify the crap out of WIN 8. Any suggestions for WIN 8 mods to make it a better work machine cheerfully accepted.

Next time I want to budget for the equivalent of an Apple Mac. They may no longer be the great machine they are now, so not promising....

Sorry to ask again. Today, I make the change -- if I can figure it out. Using Firefox 18.0.1 right now.

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[estara.livejournal.com]

"good add-on for editing inside of bulletin boards/blogs, for HTML with URLs, italics, etc. "

Is it my favourite BBCode again? I managed to fiddle inside the .xpi to get higher versions of Firefox to recognise it and work with it, but maybe you would be fine with this similar add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bbcodextra/

If you check the original BBCode Addon page at MOzilla and its comments, there's a guy who updated the version info to support Firefox 22, so maybe that would work as well?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bbcode/?src=search

Here's the link to his manipulated version
Have updated addin to 22 https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_CE2l4Osa3SUkZYdjM2dE1pRGc

YES!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I don't think of it as for bulletin boards, so I have trouble with the name. Thank you! We'll see what Win 8 makes of it. Or if I can even find it.

Job search turned discouraging. Cover artist no longer doing covers, only web sites and animated things. (Plowing ahead.) Thank you for making one thing easier!

Re: YES!

[estara.livejournal.com]

All the best in your search! Crossing my fingers.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

You'd think a new computer could open this file, right?

Wrong.

URK!

[estara.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well the link was from August 12, so maybe he deleted it... let me check if I can click it with my Windows 7 64 installation.

Yes, it downloads. You need to open the .xpi within Firefox, in the Add-Ons Manager via the option "install Add-on from file" otherwise it won't work.

If it didn't download for you, tell me an e-mail I can send the tiny file to, so you can get it that way.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

It did not download into mozilla, it's in downloads and very confused. 18.0.1 doesn't show "Install Add-on from file" so I will have to dig for that header after a break.

Need to take a break and move boxes.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Understandable.

Here's where I find it (I'm off to bed after this) - my Firefox version is 16.02

Menu point Tools > Add-Ons > Add-Ons Manager opens
At the top there's a gear symbol > a click on it reveals several options and one of them is "install add-on from file" which then opens Windows Explorer to direct to the actual place where you saved the file on your desktop.

Good night and good luck!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

And I has BBCode!

Thank you for all your encouragement! Every piece of software I currently look at it new, with a new layout. Very annoying.

[estara.livejournal.com]

I can relate - which is why I jump through hoops to find tweaks that keep BBCode happy, which is by far my most used extension of Firefox, apart from Adblock Plus.