Asunto: ExSokker extension

ExSokker Extension for Firefox

Took me a while to track this down as the first two sites it was on are no longer valid.

This makes reading the forum a lot more interesting amongst many other things.

You need GreaseMonkey as well if you don't already have it.

Edit: Apparently it doesn't work with FF3 and the creator got banned, so I'm not sure if it will ever be updated.
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can you enlight us as what firefox and greasymonkey do?

Firefox is an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer (IE).

Greasemonkey is a scripting engine that simplifies development of add-ons for Firefox (add-ons are one of the big plusses of Firefox over IE)

Thanks Naph...
I kind of had a bit of clue but needed your clarification...
I juggling between IE7(work) and Safari(home) at the moment...

Is Firefox that good? does it really worth the trouble of installing it?

Yeah. I've had firefox for a good 5 years or something now. It's just MUCH faster because it loads things differently. I have cable internet but I still notice a huge difference between IE and Firefox. The other thing is with IE when the page has jut sort of loaded or is about to finish you get a 'freeze' bit where you can't click. Firefox sort of loads things individually (I think?) and you can do whatever you want while the page still loads. In the early days you got pages that didn't work properly on firefox but nowadays jsut about everything is compatible. The add-ons are brilliant as well, as naph said. I mean for example, I have one such add-on installed which let's me open pages in an IE tab inside my firefox browser. Tabbed browsing was also a huge plus with firefox and IE basically copied this in IE7. I didn't use tabbed browsing for a long while because I found it awkward but I absolutely swear by it now. Makes things so much better.

Some of my Sokker additions throguh Greasemoneky include a currency converter in my office, an add-on which highlights rows of juniors in my junior school page (so when you go to reject you'll see which juniors row is highlighted), an added flag to every player I own which, when clicked, sends their data to an NT database, player sorters in my player page (which include things like telling me the average age and sorting or descending players by every single attribute (name [last or first] value, wage, form, injuries, bookings + every skill) and of course ExSokker which is basically a forum extension.

I've had a go this morning and installed it at work...
browsing is quite flash compare IE!

It's very similar to Safari (Apple) for me so I aint strike by the novelty...

I guess I have to put my hand on some add-on now to enjoy the full extend...
[color=#000099 size=1 face=verdana]The forum extension is quite enjoyable, no need to remember the codes now![/color]

There are some very good Firefox extensions while you're at it...
- AdBlock Plus, filters banner ads.
- Fission
- IE Tab, for pages which are developed and only tested on IE.

Yeah except the NT thing will be pointless for Australian players as I haven't actually got access for it as I didn't think it was needed at the time considering not everyone uses Firefox, although is certainly what I use, should really get around to installing Greasemonkey though, could be useful, especially in that A League thread where everything scrolls on for ages without it ;).