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Posted by Ian Goldsmid
Nov 15, 2006 at 01:41 AM
Graham
I would advise getting both - they are both simple to use, and work as advertised. Also, in future, you could look at an extension called Nightly Tester Tools: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1391/ - this enables you to install extensions that are not yet officially upgraded. Most extensions work just fine when installed with this tool - but if you use it, it is definitely highly advisable to back up your extensions/profile just in case a rogue extension messes up your profile - then as I said its real easy to restore to the earlier working state via FEBE/CLEO…
Regards, Ian
Posted by Graham Smith
Nov 15, 2006 at 07:47 AM
Ian
>I would advise getting both - they are both simple to use, and work as
>advertised.
Thanks, I will give them a look. It all sounds very useful.
Graham
Posted by Derek Cornish
Nov 16, 2006 at 05:22 AM
Ian and Graham -
The Nightly Tester route seems the best and quickest one for trying to make extensions compatible with Firefox 2.0. I even got my Net Snippets extension to work using NT - luckily, since it looks as though NS may not be being actively developed.
Cleo and Febe worked fine - although I can’t for the life of me understand why extension developers spend so much time on their projects, but so little on simple “1,2,3” explanations of how they work.
As usual, upgrading Firefox was more trouble than it ought to have been (but it IS free, after all…). FireFox 2 is unfortunately NOT compatible with Tabbrowser Extensions according to the extension’s author. This is by far the best, but much maligned, of all the tabbing extensions. Tabmix Plus - the only alternative - works for a basic upgrading of FF’s tabbing features (which are painfully poor), but session management is dismal (IMO!). In fact I had downloaded a copy of FF 1.5 to downgrade again before I finally figured out how to lock all the tabs in order to get Tabmix to work as I wanted. I think a longterm complication of CRIMP may be bouts of irritability and lack of patience…
After all that, Zotero looks interesting. I’ve only tried it out on the Library of Congress and Amazon.com for a few minutes, but it did a good job of d/l book information. The trick will be to see how far its features mesh or overlap with my existing software.
Derek