Firefox's BBCodeXtra add-on discontinued. Replacement?

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Firefox's BBCodeXtra add-on discontinued. Replacement?

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The new Firefox Quantum does not work with the excellent and indispensible BBCodeXtra addon. The developer is too busy to update it.

Really, phpBB's built in BBcode editor is piss-poor compared to this add-on. Just one example: if you have a multi-line list of points you want to convert to a bulleted list, the add-on can do it with one click.

Is there any other stand-alone program one can use as a decent bbcode editor that has some of BBCodeXtra's abilities?
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The link doesn’t work.
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Re: Firefox's BBCodeXtra add-on discontinued. Replacement?

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It's really sad that a little piece of code called BBCodeXtra, written part time by an Italian, is waaay more useful than the BBCode in the default phpbb editor.

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YMMV; juggling thru a menu instead of having a key combination would be equally painful to me. All whining put aside it's not that difficult to modify /assets/javascript/editor.js to do just that - I did this 7+ years ago and can perfectly turn multiple lines into a BBCode list with bullets thru ALT+SHIFT+L, while ALT+SHIFT+W asks me for either a text or a URI based on what is selected. An alternative is to write your own userscript so it works on every phpBB installation, not just the ones you can manage.
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Re: Firefox's BBCodeXtra add-on discontinued. Replacement?

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And that is better than an enhanced bbcode editor how?

I now use Chrome to post on phpbb. Chrome has a BBCode extension called bbCodeInsert, which is not as good but is better than nothing.
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Have an alpha version of a bbCode replacement (including clipboard commands).

See this discussion.
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I do not see the point of using BBCodeXtra. Is good for nothing.
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open-your-eyes wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:45 pm I do not see the point of using BBCodeXtra. Is good for nothing.
What features do you want on my update? (You should post it here)
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