by Calculated Risk on 12/12/2008 07:51:00 PM

From Ken Cooper:

For those of you who haven’t tried it yet, CR Companion is an add-on to the Firefox browser, written to improve the Haloscan experience of reading and posting comments at Calculated Risk.

The initial version added a side panel to the browser that made it easy to view and navigate among the authors on a thread. It also provided filtering tools to hone in on authors and subjects of interest when you’re overwhelmed by the volume. Most importantly, it included Tanta’s Mortgage Pig to tell you when new posts appear.

There is now a new version available that makes posting more convenient as well. It adds an html editor, so you can bold, italicize, and insert hyperlinks as you would with a word processor, rather than using error-prone tags. It also adds live updating, so you don’t have to refresh the page yourself.

For more information, visit the CR Companion blog.

Thanks Ken!