Moving to FireFox, some questions

[UtwigMU]

Also go to mycroft.mozdev.org and download search plugins for search bar. You can also delete the default search engines you don't use.

I use:
google.com
astalavista.box.sk
dictionary.com
IMDB.com
dict.leo.org
najdi.si
wikipedia.org

You can also define your own keywords for search in firefox (don't know how, google, I use search bar).

[az]

This thread shows exactly one of the biggest reasons I stay with Opera: Extensions are a nice idea, but I really don't want to be bothered with finding, downloading and testing countless extensions just to get a UI that is more or less equal to what I already know, use, and love.

But I have not come here to pee in your cereals, VJ

A link that might prove useful: http://firefoxopera.blogspot.com/, a site that aims to help you get the right extensions to get an almost Opera-like Fire****s. Found it via http://operawatch.blogspot.com/, btw

AZ

[agallag]

This thread shows exactly one of the biggest reasons I stay with Opera: Extensions are a nice idea, but I really don't want to be bothered with finding, downloading and testing countless extensions just to get a UI that is more or less equal to what I already know, use, and love.

That's exactly why I'm sticking with Avant Browser. It does pretty much everything listed in this thread, but with the compatibility of IE.

[isochar]

I'll just chime-in that Firefox's extensions are time worth spent, since I spend a lot of time surfing. No other browser offers the functionality that Firefox can.

[az]

I'm not about to start a flamewar in this thread (and I'm going to bed now anyway), but aside from adblock which is nice but which I wouldn't use anyway, there's almost nothing really useful as an FF extension that you don't have in Opera (built-in almost all of the time).

AZ

[VJ]

This thread shows exactly one of the biggest reasons I stay with Opera: Extensions are a nice idea, but I really don't want to be bothered with finding, downloading and testing countless extensions just to get a UI that is more or less equal to what I already know, use, and love.

Same here, so I started this thread, I got a very nice range of useful extensions. Personally, FireFox now does what I expect from a browser.

A link that might prove useful: http://firefoxopera.blogspot.com/, a site that aims to help you get the right extensions to get an almost Opera-like Fire****s. Found it via http://operawatch.blogspot.com/, btw

Well, the status-bar extension, and image-loader selection are very interesting. I had already installed sessionsaver and miniT.

I'm not about to start a flamewar in this thread (and I'm going to bed now anyway), but aside from adblock which is nice but which I wouldn't use anyway, there's almost nothing really useful as an FF extension that you don't have in Opera (built-in almost all of the time).

Spoofstick?
http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/
Displays the true domain of a website, making it easier to spot spoofed websites. And guess what: this even exists for IE

Linkification? (makes plain text urls clickable)
Spellbound? (spellchecker)

Oh, and for those that like Opera, there even is a site dedicated to getting the Opera features in FireFox: http://firefoxopera.blogspot.com/ , you can even get the icon and the ad banner back!



Jörg

[az]

Spoofstick: Is this about the IDN issue? Opera 8 has a whitelist of top-level domains that don't allow characters that look like latin characters, and displays punycode for the rest. You get a warning when you visit a domain with an @ in it.

Linkification is nice, bet that is doable with some user-css in Opera, but no one has bothered because of hotclick

I don't need no stinkin' spell checker There is crappy aspell available in opera though.

Interesting site you link to VJ, where'd you get that from?

AZ

[Kurt]

Spoofstick is nice but I like Brains better

[Nowhere]

But az, some Opera features get it my way...no problem if they would be made as extensions (for example: mouse clicking actions)
And one feature of Mozilla I absolutely love: the scrollbar is at the absolute right side of the screen, not one/few pixels from it, so I don't have to aim to use it... (btw, why the heck isn't this default in all apps?)

[VJ]

Spoofstick is nice but I like Brains better

I couldn't find that plugin...



Jörg

[az]

You're right with the scrollbars (though I actually very rarely use them, I use either the keyboard, the scrollwheel or Opera's super-smooth middle-click scrolling), but mouse gestures can be disabled (and you're asked when you perform the first gesture if you want to enable or disable them).

AZ

[VJ]

Oh, is there a way to have PDF files opening outside of the browser window?
(currently, they just replace the website from which they were linked)

I know I can set them to download, but this yields some disadvantages (file cannot be opened until it is completely downloaded)...


Jörg

[Nowhere]

If Opera asks when using mouse gestures for the first time, then what I'm doing aren't mouse gestures (I've never been asked; what's happening is caused ONLY by some combinations of clicking the mouse buttons, not moving the mouse)

[isochar]

Oh, is there a way to have PDF files opening outside of the browser window?
(currently, they just replace the website from which they were linked)

I know I can set them to download, but this yields some disadvantages (file cannot be opened until it is completely downloaded)...


Jörg

In Acrobat 7 you can go to edit/preferences/web capture and have it open in acrobat rather than in the browser.

[az]

What mouse button combinations do you mean? hold RMB and scroll the wheel?

AZ