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anyone who's played more than you has no life
anyone who's played less than you is a noob
Hi, i thought i make a quick thread about how to more easily navigate and enjoy your time here on bungie.net and it's forums, based around current available extensions for the Firefox web browser. If you like to look through reams of pages on your lunch break / after school, some of these will make things much easier!
"Mile Wide Back"
by far and away the nicest of the lot; it boggles the mind why this wasn't somehow implemented in windows xp. try it out, and soon it'll become so second nature you'll want it everywhere! Browse backwards and forwards through threads with ease - pop in a realise its the same thing you've seen before, and pop right back out! :)
+ amazing!
- shame FFx needs to be in a maximised window for it to be effective.
"Image Zoom"
ever wondered what those theorists were talking about when they said "just zoom in and look at that little corner of bungie's uber-secret-hax picture and the halo 1 pistol is back!!1!" ? well, now you can be that person! Image Zoom is very simple to use if you have a mouse wheel, and lets you find all the finer details of an image.
+ really easy to use
+ no downsides!
"tabs open relative"
If you're like me and browse with a multitude of tabs through a multitude of threads / groups / whatever, try this. It basically ensures what tabs you open when looking at a page appear next to the tab your currently browsing. [for example, you've got 2 threads in New Mombasa open and you go to your favourite group, when you open any threads in the group, they appear next to the initial tab, not to the right of the New Mombasa threads. Genius!]
+ automatic
+ again no downsides!
"Full Fullscreen"
For when F12 just won't do... I realise IE7 has an excellent full screen function, but this combined with "milewideback" means you never have to see anything but bungie.net on your screen! Yay! :-)
+ easy to use, right click > select "Toggle Fullscreen". done!
- if you dont like full screen, this isnt for you!
"Open URL in new tab"
This one is amazing - for when all those forumites who dont make a lazy link just type out the url, you can highlight the text url and right click, and select "open url in new tab". I love it. try it now: www.bungie.net
+ very easy to use
+ no downsides!
"Foxy Tunes"
Like to listen to music whilst browsing the forums? Hate to keep going back to iTunes / Winamp / Windows Media Player just to click skip track? This is for you! FoxyTunes sits quietly next to the address bar for you to use whenever you see fit. You can move it down as a mini player and put it anywhere on the page, maybe to fill that void to the right of these forums?
+ very discreet, works with nearly all media players.
- if you already like your media set-up, this isn't for you!
That's all the extensions i can find to benefit your bungie experience, but there are more for general browsing:
"AdBlock"
if bungie had ads, we'd use this!
"No Script"
stops harmful Javascript from running - one click whitelists your websites you use.
"IE Tab"
for the occasional time media won't load in Firefox (hey, the webs not perfect!) this opens an Internet Explorer tab within Firefox :-) Nice!
If you don't have Firefox, or haven't upgraded to the latest version, click me! I don't work for Mozilla or anything, i just wanted to share my bungie.net experience with everyone else :-) enjoy!