OOC: Another useful Firefox extension

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Ever wished there was an easier way to do small bits of HTML coding for your posts and comments? How many times have you deleted comments because you messed up the coding? There's a Firefox extension called BBCode that you need to check out. BBCode is meant for use on bulletin board systems, which use a different kind of mark-up, but the author also added HTML options. The latest update also gives you those symbols that you'd normally have to look up, and, most importantly, it works in Firefox 3.0.

What I love most is BBCode's ability to add custom tags, which you can see in this example. There's 10 slots for your custom tags, plus four built-in variables for date, time, clipboard contents and selected text. Here's one that I use a lot on LJ:

<lj user="_value_">

Now, all you have to do when making a post or comment is highlight the name, right-click and select the custom tag you want, and BBCode inserts the Livejournal-specific coding for you.

There's another extension BBCodeXtra, which looks like it does something similar. However, it doesn't appear to do symbols or custom tags, which is why I prefer the first one.

Your Fandom Weather Forecast for Tuesday, August 5 2008

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The winds that were simply an accepted part of Ekka season had arrived, blowing across the island. They didn't keep the temperatures from reaching highs of 67 (19c), and the lows were as low as 46 (8c).

Sunrise: 6:27
Sunset: 17:22