The World Thru My Eyes - I speak my mind and man does it like to talk.

How often have you read a article on Joeuser.com (or any other Stardock cross-posted forums) and wanted to post you opinions, thoughts and/or ideas and just as you hit the post button, the site has a "hiccup" and bam, you lose your comments and are forced to chose whether to write it again (and hope you remember every word you wrote) or forget about it. It's even worse when your post was long and you put so much effort into writting it (like when refuting a political point or questioning a religious one, or just talking about the latest Stardock software). I should know, it has happened to me several times before, to the point I have ignored the article all together in frustration and found myself writing the comments either hoping it doesn't happen again or writting on a word processing software (Like Microsoft Word) first before posting so as to have a back up of it. BTW, using Microsoft Word is a bad idea since copying and pasting from Word to the JU site changes the font and sometimes either gives you an error or you end up psting with a somewhat big font.

Well, for those of you, like me, who use FireFox I have found the greatest add-on life saver for JU. The add-on is called Lazarus 2.0 and let me tell you I love this add-on. This little program saves you comments in the text box so that in case JU decides to blame their "coding pigeons" for the "hiccups" in their system, you will get a second chance to post your commenst without having to remember or rewrite the whole thing. Heck, it even comes in handy in case you need to repeat a comment somewhere else.

I highly recommend you try this nifty add-on for yourself. I'm sure you'll like it too. BTW, this add-on works well with any site where you can post text. You can download it here. Sorry IE users, no luck for you but then you should have been using FireFox by now.

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Comments
on Aug 24, 2009

wow this is a nice plugin, shame that people haven't posted on here. To be honest, when I was typing this post, I puprosly bugged the posting. and the plugin work fine.

on Aug 24, 2009

i've wrote some lengthy posts in past and got annoyed when they vanished from said hicups. and in end never bothered poasting!!!!

 

never thought about an app that could fix this problem installed!!

 

thanks Lazarus

on Aug 24, 2009

Searching the firefox add-on site is like going to toys-r-us as a child. I get a kick out of the little nifty add-ons I can find there. I think I'm gonna make an article writing about the top 5 add-ons I have found for firefox that work great with JU and all its cross-posting forums.

on Aug 24, 2009

ctrl-a, ctrl-c works just fine

on Aug 24, 2009

ctrl-a, ctrl-c works just fine

precisely. Ah the simple things that are all too often overlooked.

on Aug 24, 2009

ctrl-a, ctrl-c works just fine

yep for me too.  Saved me alot of work and was simple. 

on Aug 24, 2009

ctrl-a, ctrl-c works just fine

Well I guess if everyone remembers to ctrl-a, ctrl-c everytime they post something,it's an option. So hows does ctrl-a, ctrl-c work when you lose it before you ctrl-a, ctrl-c?   

precisely. Ah the simple things that are all too often overlooked.

Ah come on, whats simpler than right clicking and selecting? ctrl-a, ctrl-c is so last week.

on Aug 25, 2009

The more complicated the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain...

on Aug 25, 2009

I usually just type into a text editor and then drag and drop. Most post take some time because I am typing between doing other things.
Works like a charm.

Write up your top 5 CharlesCS, its always good to learn new things.
The ones I use are
    Scrapbook
    Twitterfox
    WOT
    Xmarks
    Read it Later
    NoScript
    Morning Coffee
    Greasemonkey
    DownThemAll
All good addons

on Aug 25, 2009

Fuzzy Logic
The more complicated the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain...

Carefully thought through complex plumbing could lower the risk of the drain cloggin up though.

on Aug 25, 2009

Carefully thought through complex plumbing could lower the risk of the drain cloggin up though.