Hi
I apologize if this is not the place to post this, but I've been looking 
around and have not found anywhere to do this.

To frame this... I teach grad students and use the classic TiddlyWiki (I'll 
update to the new version over academic break one of these days) as a shell 
to organize course materials for my students... and me if I'm being honest. 
I've posted on this before, but TiddlyWiki makes organizing handouts, 
readings, topics, assignment instructions... as well as importing things 
from the prior class and rearranging them for a new semester... very easy. 
Udo's YourSearch plugin makes the whole thing searchable, which is a big 
bonus. My students complain about all sorts of things, but I have had only 
compliments about my course website for years now.

The problem was... Firefox ended support for the scripting required to 
*save* a TiddlyWiki. When I discovered this, I cursed them. I tried the 
first version of TiddlyDesktop and had some issue with it. I went to the 
portable version of the Firefox ESR release, but that's been a pain. I may 
have four TiddlyWiki shells a semester, and so editing and switching 
between them has been tricky. After a lot of work to figure out how to 
install more than one version of Firefox, sometimes links still open in the 
wrong version (or won't open because one version is already open and it 
causes a conflict) and I can't figure out how to fix it (there's *dozens* 
of calls to Firefox in the Windows registry, and even if I figure out which 
one needs changing, I have to make that change on two other machines 
running different versions of Windows). Further, every time there is an 
update to Firefox, something gets borked in my set up. Switching to some 
other solution is twice as much work for me, so I've stayed with the ESR, 
though I hate it. 

Then I saw and tried the newest version (13 I think) of TiddlyDesktop.This 
has made organizing and editing TiddlyWikis *SO SIMPLE*. 

I don't know how much work the TiddlyDesktop project has created, on top of 
the work for the two versions of TiddlyWiki, but I really appreciate it. 
My thanks to Jermolene R and everyone else working on this - you have made 
my job much easier :)

*THANKS!*
Rich

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