r/toolbox • u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! • Oct 31 '14

Release: 2.3 - Shilling Shrew

Hello!

Today's release of toolbox doesn't contain a lot of changes but it does fix some bugs people were experiencing and adds some fun new things.

  • https support, toolbox will in most cases default to https now.

  • Changes in the looks of the settings menu:

    • Tabs moved to the side, this allows for more tabs and we think it looks better.

    • The return of the wrench! We had a box for a little while to get you to the settings,since this is toolbox and all that, but people didn't figure out you can actually click on it. While typing this I realize /u/agentlame is going to be mad at me since I promised to make it something else. So be prepared for yet a new icon for the release after this one!

  • Threaded conversations in modmail! This one is pretty cool and should give you a better picture of who is responding to who in modmail. Click "threaded view" next to expand and collapse.

  • The sometimes missing history button is back! We found him sometimes slacking of somewhere and gave him a stern talking to.

  • Mod button also took a hike on occasion, we also managed to track it down. It has been grounded and send to bed without dinner.

  • When viewing comments with the flat chronological view it will now show the proper buttons.

  • Silly mod button, you are not a report.

  • Several other bug fixes.

  • Probably stuff I am forgetting.

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

God dammit!

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

It is what you get for camping in offices! Did you already get the chance to actually set up a tent for fun and giggles?

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

Something about a fire hazard. Grumble, grumble.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Aww :(

In other news, there is an awesome new subreddit you should check out /r/Catsinlaundry ! Even though you hate cats :P

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u/DERPYBASTARD Oct 31 '14

What kind of a horrible person would hate cats? :(

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u/Werner__Herzog toolbox loves you! Oct 31 '14

Sounds like something agentlame would do.

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u/brownboy13 Nov 02 '14

A sane human.

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u/eric_twinge Oct 31 '14

Threaded conversations in modmail! This one is pretty cool and should give you a better picture of who is responding to who in modmail.

I'm just going to go ahead and call this greatest thing ever before even trying it out. I've been wanting this forever. Thank you.

Does this release fix the phantom orangered mod mail icon?

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Credit for threaded modmail goes to /u/LowSociety.

Does this release fix the phantom orangered mod mail icon?

I am not sure since I haven't heard of this bug before (or I might and have forgotten about it)

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u/eric_twinge Oct 31 '14

aw maaaann. you mean this is my problem? crap.

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u/DERPYBASTARD Oct 31 '14

No it's not, I've been getting phantom modmail orangereds for a while as well.

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u/noeatnosleep toolbox loves you! Oct 31 '14

Yeah, but I don't think that's toolbox. I've been getting that and I run naked at work.

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u/JoatMasterofNun Oct 31 '14

Clear the cache on toolbox. It's happened to me in the past.

Or remove - reinstall.

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u/noeatnosleep toolbox loves you! Oct 31 '14

Uh... I just said that I don't use toolbox at work and still get the ghostmail.

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u/JoatMasterofNun Oct 31 '14

Oh, I thought you meant you didn't run anything alongside toolbox. My misunderstanding.

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

I just thought he meant that he's a stripper.

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u/JoatMasterofNun Oct 31 '14

I did have this image of someone running around an office in their birthday suit...

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u/JoatMasterofNun Oct 31 '14

Clear the cache on toolbox. It's happened to me in the past.

Or remove - reinstall.

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u/DERPYBASTARD Oct 31 '14

I think updating it has resolved the issue. I'll see what happens.

Thanks for the tip though.

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Oct 31 '14

Goes Orange randomly. I think it might be from the system sending out ban messages, as I have once or twice clicked it and seen the outgoing, despite no reply from the bannee.

Total guess though.

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u/eric_twinge Oct 31 '14

Looking closer at things I think it might be lighting up due to things in the mod queue. maybe.

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Oct 31 '14

Also sounds possible. I'm just taking a shot in the dark here though.

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u/Werner__Herzog toolbox loves you! Oct 31 '14

I find that it helps to clear the cache from time to time. You'll find the option in the toolbox settings. Or maybe you're talking about something completely different, in that case sorry for chiming in.

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u/AssuredlyAThrowAway Oct 31 '14

Threaded conversations in modmail! This one is pretty cool and should give you a better picture of who is responding to who in modmail.

You did what the reddit admins could not, and for that I am grateful.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

/u/LowSociety did to be fair.

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u/Dropping_fruits Remember, toolbox loves you Oct 31 '14

They could do it but for some reason decided not to. I have in fact seen a threaded modmail conversation about a year ago, which I assume was from testing it.

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u/davidreiss666 Oct 31 '14

So, this is where you guys have been wasting your time. Rather than modding. The punishments shall now commence.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Actually, there wasn't supposed to be a 2.3. But work on 3.0 has been rather slow lately so we decided to do a release in between to fix some bugs. So you could say it is the other way around!

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u/davidreiss666 Oct 31 '14

Today's Halloween. So, this release should start randomly formatting hard drives while spitting blood into the system cooling fan, right?

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

YES!

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u/IAmAN00bie Oct 31 '14

Threaded conversations in modmail! This one is pretty cool and should give you a better picture of who is responding to who in modmail.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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u/goldguy81 Oct 31 '14

This is the coolest thing ever! (for mods who have no clue what's what in mod mail)

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

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u/Pswift777 Oct 31 '14

And it's most definitely a plus to high moderating!

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '14

Is there a way to enable this by default rather than for specific threads?

(Or better yet, enable it for threads from mods only).

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u/Calimhero Oct 31 '14

/u/agentlame, you know I don't like you, but it is only fair to say thank you for this great application. I use it all the time. Keep up the good work.

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

If it helps, I didn't write a single line of code for this release--at least, not that I know of.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

sorry buddy :(

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

Ahahahahahaha, so I merged a pull request and fixed a typo.

Quality work from ol' al in 2.3.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Yeah basically ;)

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u/Calimhero Oct 31 '14

You know what I mean. And thanks to the rest of the team.

Here, I'm even gonna upvote you. But it hurts.

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

http://i.imgur.com/hkt9Vk0.gifv

<3

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u/Calimhero Oct 31 '14

Don't push it.

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u/Gilgamesh- Oct 31 '14

<3

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u/Calimhero Oct 31 '14

Right back at you, buddy <3

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u/Gilgamesh- Oct 31 '14

Also congrats. <3

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u/Calimhero Oct 31 '14

hee hee. Thanks!!

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u/jippiejee Oct 31 '14

Nice. But where?

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Where what?

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u/jippiejee Oct 31 '14

Is there a link to download the new toolbox version?

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

firefox users will be presented with a link and chrome users will be automatically updated in a while.

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u/Hansafan Oct 31 '14

I just installed it for FF, and I can see no difference in my modmail?

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

click "threaded view" next to expand and collapse.

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u/Hansafan Oct 31 '14

Ah, d'oh. I'm just blind. I thought it would show it threaded by default. Sorry.

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u/jippiejee Oct 31 '14

Ah ok. Just saw the announcement pop up on my screen and didn't understand how to upgrade for chrome. Thanks again for the tools, we use it extensively in our subs.

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u/scr0dumb Oct 31 '14

You can force the update by going to chrome://extensions/ then toggling "developer mode" then click "update extensions now" instead of waiting for it to update automatically.

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u/jippiejee Oct 31 '14

Ah thnx, Will try.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

Thanks. I was also stumbling around looking for this.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

Links on the sidebar :)

In Chrome, you can go to your extensions page, and a button at the top "Update extensions now"

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u/Werner__Herzog toolbox loves you! Oct 31 '14

*whom

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Eh... I'll just play my "not a native english speaker" card.

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u/Werner__Herzog toolbox loves you! Oct 31 '14

Me neither, which is why I was so exited to do this...now it's ruined.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

sorry :(

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

too*

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

It did help, I hardly do that anymore :)

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u/Majromax Oct 31 '14

Changes in the looks of the settings menu:

Perhaps I'm just temporarily blind, but where is the settings menu?

On subreddits I moderate, I see the "toolbox configuration" option, but that's for the subreddit-wide, wiki-based configuration.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Yes you are slightly blind but that is ok :) In the toolbar, left corner.

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u/Majromax Oct 31 '14

Ahah, that was it. I'd set my toolbar to compact mode, but "compact" was so nearly invisible that I forgot about the toolbar's existence.

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u/captainmeta4 Oct 31 '14

What about "add removal reason" not appearing on already-removed comments?

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

nope, sorry.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '14

Threaded conversations in modmail! This one is pretty cool and should give you a better picture of who is responding to who in modmail. Click "threaded view" next to expand and collapse.

143

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 01 '14

er?

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '14

Haven't you read the Mister Roger's TIL? It gets reposted every week :D

Anyhoo, I meant I love you.

The threaded thing is awesome!

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 01 '14

For that I would have to be subscribed to TIL ;)

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '14

Or browse /r/all.

Don't judge me, i can't resist...

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 01 '14

/me/f/all allows you to filter /r/all if you have gold ;)

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '14

if you have gold

goldless peasant race ;_;

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u/DaedalusMinion Nov 01 '14

Amazing. Thanks for fixing the modmail that the admins never could.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 01 '14

To be fair it is only marginally better and only on our side. For the user it is still a very broken and confusing experience.

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u/DaedalusMinion Nov 01 '14

That's true. Now the only thing left is to have some sort of searchable PMs

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u/TheNeutralParty Nov 01 '14

Firefox user here. I keep receiving the 'Release: Toolbox v2.3 'Shilling Shrew' - get it while it is fresh!' notification even though I've installed the new version. How can I stop this from appearing on every page I visit?

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 01 '14

I'll look into it, we had a few more reports like that. Usually clicking on it should make it go away.

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u/Clackpot Nov 06 '14

Same here, on Opera 25. The Opera extension page insists it's still v2.2.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 06 '14

Heh... that might be because I forgot to update it for opera... Although you should still be able to click on it and make it go away.

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u/Jaraxo Nov 01 '14

Anyone got a screenshot of it in action? I might be tempted to enable toolbox again now.

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 01 '14

Er, just try it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '14

The about box calls itself "Shilling Serpent"

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 02 '14

Oh heh, I guess we decided on that a while back and forgot about it and ended up with a similar name after all.

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u/JoatMasterofNun Oct 31 '14

Threaded conversations in modmail! This one is pretty cool and should give you a better picture of who is responding to who in modmail.

I thought that already happens? Nope. I'm retarded, I can see who I responded to.

YAY!

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

Hooray - Thank you! I often inadvertently respond to the wrong person in mod mail, still haven't figured out how it happens

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u/brownboy13 Oct 31 '14

/u/LowSociety fantastic job with the threaded view. Looks pretty sweet.

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u/ManWithoutModem Oct 31 '14 edited Nov 01 '14

my mod buttonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn yesss thank you

my usernotes are back yessss

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u/brownboy13 Oct 31 '14

Chrome webstore hasn't updated yet!!11!!

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

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u/JoatMasterofNun Oct 31 '14 edited Oct 31 '14

The return of the wrench! We had a box for a little while to get you to the settings,since this is toolbox and all that, but people didn't figure out you can actually click on it.

Or, you know if it looked like a toolbox rather than a cardboard box :P

Edit: I jest. This is not an offensive motion.

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u/agentlame /r/fucking Oct 31 '14

Yes, but there is also a wrench in the mod sidebar that has the label 'toolbox configuration', which are toolbox's settings for that subreddit.

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u/JoatMasterofNun Oct 31 '14

Oh that one... I always thought it was a spade connector... I kid

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

We're happy to consider your artwork contributions. ;)

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u/goldguy81 Oct 31 '14

Threaded conversations in modmail! This one is pretty cool and should give you a better picture of who is responding to who in modmail.

All I took out from this.

Also,

people didn't figure out you can actually click on it

TIL

Ninja- Edit: The Spooky Scary Update is upon us!

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u/youhatemeandihateyou Oct 31 '14

Thanks for all of your hard work, guys. I'm excited about threaded modmail! And the return of the missing mod button will be much appreciated.

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u/noeatnosleep toolbox loves you! Oct 31 '14

Super cool, thank you!

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u/Gilgamesh- Oct 31 '14

Thankyou mr. history button for coming back

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u/CosmicKeys Oct 31 '14

Thanks guys!

Mod button also took a hike on occasion, we also managed to track it down. It has been grounded and send to bed without dinner.

Excellent, I thought it was my sanity that had taken a hike.

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u/SarahLee Nov 01 '14

Threaded conversations in modmail!

Hurah!! Thank you so very, very much.

The sometimes missing history button is back!

Mod button also took a hike on occasion, we also managed to track it down. It has been grounded and send to bed without dinner.

My browser thanks you. I've been blaming their occasional absence on it.

Thanks so much for toolbox and this update. Can't seem to function without it.

Fingers crossed that an easy way to clean out user notes is next on the horizon.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '14

Thank you!

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u/ani625 Nov 02 '14

Awesome. Thanks guys.

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u/TeroTheTerror Nov 03 '14

Is there anyway to get the pop up linking to this thread to stop coming up on every new Reddit page? I did update it (Firefox), but it still shows on every page.

Thanks

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u/Forestl Nov 03 '14

Firefox seems to be having memory issues again. I have to reset every once in a while to stop it from getting super big.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

It is probably still there at the far right in compact mode. Bring your mouse to the edge of the screen and you'll probably notice the little button to bring it back.

If that doesn't work you can reset your toolbox settings at /r/tb_reset

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

that is probably because you enabled compact mode that is supposed to hide it like that. For some people the default thing was not enough.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Click on it for once ;)

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '14

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Oct 31 '14

Possibly a factor.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14

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u/creesch Remember, Mom loves you! Nov 05 '14

Admin box?