SALR: SA Last Read for Firefox: Better, Faster, Less Useful?

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Disgustipated: Jul 28, 2003; Black metal ist krieg

Bug report, 070729:

Admins/Mods are getting "null" tacked on to the end of the "Forum Administrator" thing. I assume it has something to do with the new code to not over write the "magic 3".

Ex:

# ¿ Jul 30, 2007 20:17

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 22:58

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duz posted:

Yep, it has to do with the new OP detection. Go into your Forums Control Panel and enable highlighting. It should then go away. I'll fix it permanently tonight.

I believe that by default, Firefox only checks once a week for updates.

It's already enabled. The OP highlighting works fine, but users that are highlighted because they are special but don't have an actual note stored, show up with null.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2007 21:35

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kri kri posted:

Is there a way to add "Starred Threads" to my SA menu?

Configure SALastRead -> Menus -> Add Star Menu

# ¿ Aug 1, 2007 18:04

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erebus25 posted:

Cool I just noticed a couple of bugs that I'd like to fix first, oh and once I've figured out what BS is.

BS is bountysource, if you haven't figured it out yet. https://salr.bountysource.com/

# ¿ Aug 1, 2007 20:32

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wang souffle posted:

Is OP username highlighting broken or did I break something? Other highlights like SALR developer still work.

erebus25 posted:

Let's just repeat that so that the next three pages aren't full of people asking the same thing.

IF YOU THE THREAD POSTER'S NAME ISN'T BEING HIGHLIGHTED GO TO THE "USER CONTROL PANEL" LINK AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE THEN "EDIT OPTIONS" AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE "Highlight the username of the "original poster" in thread posts" SET TO YES.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2007 23:14

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Zorilla posted:

He didn't say anything about the next five pages.

That was posted on page 2, this makes the 3rd page since it was posted. We almost made it too. :gbsmith:

# ¿ Aug 8, 2007 23:19

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Irish Thunder posted:

First of all, I just want to say that I love this add-on. It is so useful. One feature I feel that would be really useful, if it is even possible code-wise, is to have the ability to jump to the next post by the OP. Anything like that in the works?

You could just click the ? bottom of the post table. Next to the profile stuff etc. It gives all the posts by that person in the thread.

Only registered members can see post attachments!

# ¿ Aug 26, 2007 19:24

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Irish Thunder posted:

Oh wow, thanks. Didn't even know it was a feature.

It's not an SALR feature, it's actually part of the forums.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2007 01:52

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Marsol0 posted:

Is there a way that I am unaware of that I can remove threads from my 'Stared Threads List' without having to visit that thread? Some of the threads I have listed there are now in archives, and I don't have access.

RedKazan posted:

Another feature that was added:

You can now Shift+Ctrl click on a thread in the Starred Threads menu to unstar it for quick cleaning or if the thread is no longer reachable for you (archived/deleted).

Not sure if this made it into the last release or not, worth checking out though.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2007 16:15

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duz posted:

Updates!
Almost entirely bug fixes. Only new feature is the addition of a go to first unread post link in the page navigator. Only really useful in fast moving threads.

Known Issues
See the second post

Changelog
Added Go To First Unread Post link to navigator
Some clean up of unused code and files

Bug Fixes
Don't color threads should work again
When unreading a thread, it should uncolor properly
Keyboard navigation of the SA menu works again
Ignored threads shouldn't expire from the DB

With this update SALR uncolors everything I've read but not bookmarked, ie:

It started when I unchecked disable all gradients and then disabled it again because it screwed up the same way. Gradients turned off, but the highlighting is still busted.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2007 14:35

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RedKazan posted:

Do you have your forums options set to those specified in the first post?

Yes.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2007 17:09

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RedKazan posted:

Uncheck "Don't display pop up errors" in the General options tab of SALR, your script may be bailing before it colors anything/changes the icons. If you get something post a screen.

No errors. It works ok if I uncheck "Don't perform color highlighting on thread lists" but then I lose the multicolored bookmark coloring from the forums. The script seems to be stripping whatever coloring is on un-bookmarked threads. They'll show their coloring until it runs and then it'll be gone. Also I've confirmed that it happened before I was messed around with any settings, I just updated my laptop and it was started happening immediately after the upgrade.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2007 19:47

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withak posted:

FWIW, my problem with some keyboard shortcuts not working in the SA menu disappeared with the latest update.

duz posted:

Bug Fixes
Don't color threads should work again
When unreading a thread, it should uncolor properly
Keyboard navigation of the SA menu works again
Ignored threads shouldn't expire from the DB

# ¿ Sep 29, 2007 01:36

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Biaxident posted:

Are they really that often? I've got the Update Notifier plug-in set up so that it automatically downloads and installs updates, so I really don't notice.

No, there hasn't been a new version in over a month, the last version is from 9/30.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2007 16:58

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Komrade Hitlerstalin posted:

I'm using Firefox but not Greasemonkey and I can do this:

Always have been able to, too. I don't think the problem lies in Firefox, unless I'm completely misapprehending what you guys are talking about.

Yeah, works fine for me too.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2007 04:47

Disgustipated: Jul 28, 2003; Black metal ist krieg

I know it's a beta, but are you guys looking into Firefox 3 compatibility at all? SALR is pretty broken in 3b1. The menu doesn't pull anything, most of the options do nothing at all, and it's just generally broken. FF3 is so nice on OS X compared to 2, especially in Leopard, which I just got yesterday, and I really don't want to use 2. So, anything? :shobon:

EDIT: Oh yeah, no error messages come up even if I uncheck the suppress error messages option.

Disgustipated fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Nov 29, 2007

# ¿ Nov 29, 2007 00:52

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RedKazan posted:

The reason nothing works in the 3 beta is that it isn't even trying. One of the first things the script does is run a "load" event listener on the window; in Firefox 2 this is fine, the event propagates all the way down to all the tabs and everything is groovy, but in Firefox 3 the event only fires for the window itself loading, not any of that window's children (tabs). Without waiting for the tabs to load, it can't check if you're actually at SA or not, and if it fails that check, it stops trying to do anything else.

Ah I understand. So how hard is that to fix? Major rewrite territory? Quick and easy? Somewhere in between? Basically how much of a bounty should I be thinking about putting on this?

# ¿ Nov 29, 2007 04:47

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Atrus posted:

You need to go to the root of the forums first. That's how SALR updates it's forums list.

Uhhhhhhh...no it's not. It pulls it from the drop down at the bottom of each thread/forum. Which is not in the forum index.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2008 22:39

Disgustipated: Jul 28, 2003; Black metal ist krieg

Just an FYI, the new nightly builds aren't covered in the current maxversion. Not a big deal really, just a heads up!

# ¿ Mar 27, 2008 23:25

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Bakanogami posted:

Using latest SALR and (I think) latest Firefox on a PowerPC Mac, it's acting kind of weird for me. I get the menu, which is working fine, but almost none of the other features seem to be working. No quick quote/reply, no coloring options outside of the ones the forums can do themselves, so on and so forth. Nothing I do in the preferences seems to fix this, anybody know why? It's actually been like this for a while, so I know it's nothing recent.

What version of Firefox? What version of SALR? 2.0.0.13 is the latest release of Firefox. The most current version of SALR is 1.99.080122. OP highlighting and username highlighting are both still working for me, so is quick reply/quote/edit/post. If you're having problems with quote highlighting, you should read this post: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=2571027&pagenumber=29#post341839010

# ¿ Apr 7, 2008 00:43

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Hey guys, latest nightly of Firefox 3 fucks up SALR. The quick quote/reply/edit/post buttons are doubling up instead of showing the smaller one to go to a normal reply window. ie:

Just wanted to give you a heads up.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2008 20:00

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Shameless posted:

^^^

This is happening for me too. If I click on the "last read" button it takes me where I want to be but when I reurn to the main forum screen everything for that thread has vanished. firefox 2.0.0.14 and latest SALR update

This is a forums issue, nothing to do with SALR.

# ¿ May 15, 2008 13:20

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pik_d posted:

Testing submit button.

e. Didn't happen that time, though that doesn't mean it never happens.

Also that kinda sucks, it seems a lot of things aren't local. If I read through a thread on one PC it shows up as being read on the other. Why would where I've posted be any different?

SALR tracks which threads you've posted in and the forums track which threads you've read. There's nothing on forumdisplay.php to indicate whether or not you've posted in a thread, so it can't be carried over between computers.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2008 04:25

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Ixian posted:

I think I might have a different issue. This is on a new install on a new PC, Vista x64. I get:

At startup. One weird thing is, that "file" location it references? That doesn't exist. "%7BF...etc" isn't where SALR is installed in my profile, it's in a different directory.

As it's never successfully been installed on this PC I don't even have a salread.sqlite file to delete; one hasn't been created. Any ideas on what I can try?

I'm getting this too when trying to install it on portable firefox. After that i get this:

It's not happening on any of my other installs though. :confused:

# ¿ Jun 20, 2008 21:59

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Xenomrph posted:

Where exactly is that sqllite file? The only post that says where it is is this one:

...and I really have no idea what that means.

Assuming you're on Windows, open up the run prompt, and type %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles in and hit enter. It'll open up a folder and there should another folder that looks like [random numbers/letters].default. The salastread.sqlite is in there.

To access currentVersion and lastRunVersion, type about:config into your address bar and filter for them.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2008 05:00

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dirtyfrog posted:

Wicked, thanks Duz - turned it off and it seems to have cured the problem. Thank gently caress, browsing without SALR is hard work

*edit* Nope, tell a lie - forum indexes seem faster but the threads stay the same, plus the paginator still appears in threads. Curses.

So disable that one. It's under the tread options in SALR.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2008 19:25

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dirtyfrog posted:

I turned it off. But it still appeared in threads.

There are 2 places you need to turn it off.

You did this one:

Now you have to do this one:

Gvaz posted:

Is it possible to fetch it from the next pages? say like clicking it fetches it from the link:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/bookmarkthreads.php?action=view&perpage=40&sortorder=desc&sortfield=&pagenumber=1

page 2, page 3, etc

and so on instead of http://forums.somethingawful.com/usercp.php

Or is that a convoluted back-rear end way of doing it?

Hitting pages the user isn't viewing has been pretty expressly forbidden by the admins.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2008 20:57

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porno broker posted:

I just did a fresh install of the extension on a fresh install of firefox using the link in the OP, and for some reason the number of unread posts is out of line..

Using FF3.0

Edit note: The number's horribly faint and only visible/legible if i highlight it.

In the "Forums" area of SALR's config, either uncheck the "Use this '__________' icon" options, or if you want to continue to use the red X and blue arrow, check "Show new replies count in the replies column"

# ¿ Jul 14, 2008 09:06

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Wow that's a pretty neat feature.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2008 18:08

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ZentraediElite posted:

I thought I heard tell of a extension for it though. This is just because I'm lazy and don't want to have to switch the settings on and off for work and home.

If you use Adblock Plus add this rule to your filters list:

code:

forums.somethingawful.com#DD(class=title)

It'll hide all titles.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2008 19:27

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Zorilla posted:

Biz is probably working on getting the Quick Reply window to pull this code on open

If by "biz" you mean "biznatchio," he hasn't had anything to do with SALR in years. :wtc:

# ¿ Nov 11, 2008 01:09

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Bucket Joneses posted:

I still can't post using quick reply. Firefox says there are no updates for SALR either.

Using SALR 1.99.080805

Well the current version is 1.99.081110, so update manually I guess?

And FYI the version is a date, your build is August 5, 2008.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2008 03:09

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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:

Is there an easy way to gain access to the file that the "Custom user highlighting and notes" information lives in?

It would be handy to be able to backup this file or to copy and paste a list of users in or out.

The aim here is to backup and maintain a list of users whose note is their gamer tag without having to re-key the information when sharing between computers are starting on a new Firefox installation.

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile name]\salastread.sqlite stores all the SALR settings

# ¿ May 2, 2009 03:14

Disgustipated: Jul 28, 2003; Black metal ist krieg

Also SALR can disable the click for post icon filtering as it's built into the forums now.

# ¿ May 7, 2009 02:29

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bazaar apparatus posted:

Haha I didn't think to try that.

No, disabling SALR didn't fix it. Still, it's weird because if I load an SA page in a new background tab, when I switch to that tab the line shows up normally but only for a split second and then it disappears. Oh well.

Any other extensions installed? Try safe mode.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2009 13:14

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Swilo posted:

It finally happened, all 40 of GBS's first page threads are the perpetual crap I've hidden. Thank you SALR for helping to make this a reality:

That's page 2 though :confused:

# ¿ Aug 1, 2009 13:22

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crm posted:

That's a pretty good idea. Thanks!

Or if you use stylish you could use this:

code:

@namespace url([url]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml[/url]);

@-moz-document domain("forums.somethingawful.com") {
dd.title {
display: none;
}
}

That'll hide red text too.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2009 00:11

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Vykk.Draygo posted:

Is the new search thread box supposed to shove whatever post is at the top of the page over so there is blank space under it until the next post?

It's doing that because the text for the button is too large and causing it to overflow the blue area, I can force it to happen by making my fonts massive:

So find what's making that button have big text, and you'll be all set.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2010 04:05

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NOTinuyasha posted:

It still doesn't restore the original user avatars. I'm gonna third that request, I installed SALR specifically looking for features to remove the fyad drama crap.

This is not possible for SALR to do. The forums cancer thing entirely replaces the poster's title/avatar. It's not present in the HTML served up by the forums, so there's nothing SALR could do to restore it short of saving every single user's avatar and title locally, making sure they didn't have cancer and then if they did replacing it with their regular combo.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 06:04

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 22:58

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Chwoka posted:

It tells me that Windows can not find the program used to open it.

Or you could just drag and drop into the add-ons window.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2010 02:57

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