Extension Details

How to use this extension

What it does

BBCode & phpBB Stuff

The extension adds an item to the right click menu that shows different things depending on what you're right clicking on. Just right click on things like images, links and selected text to find options to copy properly BBCoded stuff into your clipboard ready for posting on any BBCode compatible website like phpBB forums etc.

Forum Stuff

This extension adds a toolbar to FireFox that shows the latest headlines and also adds context dependant items to the right-click menu in FireFox. The extension will never make a post on your behalf, it just fills in the new topic form for you or copies stuff to the clipboard. You will need to press the "submit" button yourself, and it's always a good idea to press "Preview" first to check out that everything has been structured as you expected and to edit the title or fill in a description where appropriate.

Remember many websites don't allow hotlinking of images on UJ so when posting an image make sure you press preview, then Ctrl-F5 to see if you're about to post a Red-X, Yellow Frog or other anti-hotlinking image. For more information on this technique click here

If you encounter any bugs or situations where the extension does not correctly post the content you were trying to post (other than anti-hotlinking images) then please make sure you report it!

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The toolbar

You can click a specific part of this image to learn about how it works

The UJ Menu

The drop down menu provides quick navigation to various UselessJunk network areas and is also accessible from the right-click menu.

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Private Messages

The Prvate Message Notifier will glow red when you've got a PM and tell you how many unread PMs are in your inbox. Click the button at anytime to go to your PM inbox.

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Logoff Button

The log off button will allow you to log off UJ.net This can be useful if you will be browsing the web for a while or leaving your browser active with the Headlines scrolling but you don't want it to appear to other UJers that you're actually online.

If you're logged off clicking this button will take you to the UselessJunk.net login page

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Extension Options

This button will open up the UJ Extension options dialog where you can do things like set how often the toolbar should check for headlines etc. This is also where you turn the toolbar off if you don't like it! And back on again when you realize you're missing out!

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Search for yourself!

The search for yourself button will do a UJ.net search on your username. Useful for ego surfing.

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Boss Key

The Boss Key button will hide:

• All current tabs and the tab bar
• The UJ Sidebar if it's currently visible

And it'll show:

• your "bosskey page" (set in options, the google homepage by default)

The only way to restore your browser is by the FireFox Tools->Restore Browser menu item (or by the "undo bosskey" button that you have to manually add to a FireFox toolbar).

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Previous Headline

Scroll the headline view to the previous headline

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Current Headline

Shows which number the current headline is out of the total set of headlines, typically will say something like "4/50" meaning headline 4 of 50 possible. you can change how frequently the headlines auto-scroll in the options window

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Next Headline

Scroll the headline view to the next headline

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Toggle the headline sidebar

View all headlines in the FireFox sidebar

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Headline View

This view shows the current headline, which forum it came from and the thread poster.

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Post to UJ button

This button posts the current page as a link in a new thread in UJ. Drop down the button to choose a specific uj.net subsection. Make sure you check out the right-click options below for far more control over posting content to UJ.

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The right-click menu

A lot of the right click menu items will only appear when you're right clicking on the relevant thing in FireFox, like a webpage, image or link

BBCode

You can use the extension to copy BBCode to the clipboard ready for posting into threads on UJ (or any other BBCode compliant web page/forum). A simple example of this is to right click on a link as shown in the image below:

This will copy to the clipboard the following BBCode:

[URL=http://uselessjunk.net/viewtopic.php?t=195139]Hottest Romanian model you've never heard of[/URL]

Note that this link copying will work with any link, not just forum links. It'll even work with links that are images.

You can also use this functionality with images or any text you've selected on a webpage. The extension can even do thumbnails or large images using this "Copy to clipboard" menu.

You can also right click anywhere on a web page to cope the current page to the clipboard as a BBCoded link

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Post videos to UJ

Posting videos as UJ threads is really easy, even when the videos are hosted on sites such as youtube. Simply go to a webpage with a video on and right-click. The "Videos" menu will be visible and if you expand it you'll see an entry for each video (or embedded music, flash animation etc.) on the page identified by it's filename. Choose the video you want and then continue expanding the menu to choose one of the UJ subforums to post your video in.

This works well with most sites, including YouTube, by automatically extracting the embed code needed to make it work on fourms. Remember though to right click on the web page, not the video itself!

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Post links to UJ

Posting links couldn't be easier. Simply right-click on any link (outside of UJ.net) and choose the "Post link as thread in" option and then choose your subfourm.

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Post quotes to UJ

To post a quote to UJ just select some text on a website and right click and select the "Post selected text as thread in" option and then choose your subforum.

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Post images to UJ

To post an image (including an image that links to a site) just right click it and select the "Post image as thread in" option and then choose your subforum.

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Post HackedPhones content

HackedPhones is a massive free gallery of celebrity pictures, including professional shots, candids, nude shots, paparazzi pictures, nipslips etc.

If you're on a HackedPhones gallery page you will see an extra menu item for posting entire hackedphones gallery pages as a UJ thread or copying them to the clipboard (in the same way as the BBCode functionality works).

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Quickly go to UJ Network sites and .Net subforums

Right click on any page and you'll see the "UJ Network" menu. This menu has quick links to UJ Network sites including sub-menus for Swagster and uselessjunk.net. Under the UJ.net menu there are quick links to reference threads, like the rules and how to post a picture as well as quick links to the main UJ sections like the forum index, general discussion, SFW and Political etc.

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Moderate UJ

If you're a moderater you'll see a "Moderate" menu when browsing any UJ.net page. This allows you to move and tag threads just by either right-clicking while in them or on their links from the index pages.

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Trouble shooting

Installation

You can install the extension by clicking the install button up above or clicking here: install

Due to the complex load balancing server infrastructure that UJ uses you may face two methods of installation.

If you see the following information bar popup at the top of your firefox window. If you don't see this bar then check out the alternate installation instructions

Press the "Edit Options..." button and the following window will pop up

Press the "Allow" button, then the "Close" button to allow uj.net to install the extension into your browser automatically. Then finally press the install button or link again. This time the FireFox extension install dialog will popup

Finally press the "Install Now" button and your extension will be installed!

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Alternate installation instructions

If the method above doesn't work for some reason, you may see the following dialog:

You can also get this by right-clicking the extension install link and selecting "Save link as...". In either case you can install the extension by choosing to open the extension (ujext.xpi) with FireFox. If you save the file to your disk you can open it in FireFox (Press Ctrl-O and navigate to the file) or just drag and drop it onto FireFox. Once installed the extension becomes part of the browser and you can safely delete the ujext.xpi file.

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Updating

The extension will automatically detect updates, however you can manually update it in FireFox by going to the "Tools" menu and selecting "Tools -> Add-ons". This will list all of your installed extensions. You can then right click any of them and select "Find Update".

Alternatively you can just reinstall the extension from this page to force an update.

Sometimes an update may be detected but when you download the update you've still got the same old version. This is caused by the way load balancing works on the UJ servers and will resolve itself after a few hours.

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Reporting Bugs/Feedback

Please report any bugs you find using the extension or any general feedback to me (Skulker) on the forums.

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