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What's your favorite extension for Firefox? You know, the one you absolutely can not browse without. Not the official stuff, like the tabs and the dictionary, but the user themes.

Mine's the wikipedia lookup tool. All you do is highlight a selection, right click, and it brings up the wikipedia page on that subject. It's incredibly simple and useful.

AdBlock Plus :D

leetify

FTW


For real the mouse motion browsing one

leetify

FTW


For real the mouse motion browsing one

What does that do?

StumbleUpon is crack

Download Sort, Firefox Showcase, and Repagination... and StumbleUpon, of course.

What are these extensions? Do you need them to add minimal functionality to your browser? Isn't Firefox also leaky and slow as hell, at least with the necessary extensions?

Signed by:
- The carefree Opera user

:D

The carefree Opera user.Care-free? I tried Opera, and I could just never get it to behave the way I wanted. While it is true that there is some trade-off in speed to add extensions to Firefox, as long as you don't get carried away the loss is minimal. The key is to figure out which extensions you really use every day, and drop the rest.

Also, Firefox does crash on me more than I'd like... at least it does on Vista. Still, with the "restore session" functionality now fully integrated, it's only a minor annoyance. I've tried everything else, and I'm still a Firefox fan.

What are these extensions? Do you need them to add minimal functionality to your browser? Isn't Firefox also leaky and slow as hell, at least with the necessary extensions?

Signed by:
- The carefree Opera user

:D

They just do cool things that Mozilla hasn't added, or can't add to the browser. There's an IRC client, StumbleUpon (which lets you browse interesting sites other people have marked as Awesome), a tool that blocks all ads altogether, a tool that turns your text into leet/binary/morse code, there are sooo many things.

Also, I've never experienced Firefox being leaky or slow.

Care-free? I tried Opera, and I could just never get it to behave the way I wanted.Aye, Opera takes some time to get used to in order to famliarize yourself with its functions...But it's by far the fastest browser to use I've, well, used. :)

Moving back, forward (with the mouse, without mouse gestures), searching (like for example g, w, i, a... + <search term> for google, wiki, IMDB, answers.com searching on the address bar), "bookmarks" (user interface links), speed dialing, etc.. it's really insanely fast to use.
While it is true that there is some trade-off in speed to add extensions to Firefox, as long as you don't get carried away the loss is minimal.Well, bare Firefox starts off slower (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html) (in terms of loading & rendering speed) than Opera... ;)

Still, with the "restore session" functionality now fully integratedRestore crashed session (and save/load custom sessions) is indeed a nice feature...Opera has had it since O 7, I think.

Also, I've never experienced Firefox being leaky or slow.

http://secunia.com/product/12434/ - FF: Unpatched 67% (8 of 12 Secunia advisories)

http://secunia.com/product/10615/ - Opera: Unpatched 14% (1 of 7 Secunia advisories)

:D

Of course, that's not the whole truth ;-)

AeroFox skin
PhishTank
TabCatalog

I use FasterFox too. It makes it fast. Imagine that.

Yes, I know Opera is faster.

It's just that speed is only ONE of the things I look for in a browser. ;)

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Does Opera have a native amd64 binary for it like Firefox, or will I have to set up a chroot jail in order to run it?

I found one thing with Opera - if refused to install correctly with you have UAC turned on in Vista. No issues with Safara or Firefox.

Geez, I've got a ton. :)

1. AdblockPlus
2. Updater for same
3. bbcode: right click menu for Bulletin Board code (for most BB systems)
4. Bug Me Not: For when I want to read an article on the NYT
5. NoScript: Really control scripting in FireFox.

That's the important ones.

I use FasterFox too. It makes it fast. Imagine that.
FasterFox is hated by all webservers everywhere. All it does is make FF send multiple page requests in at once so that it gets a quicker response. On a server like Jolt, the turning FasterFox off could increase speed as the already overloaded Jolt server will have less to process.

FasterFox is hated by all webservers everywhere. All it does is make FF send multiple page requests in at once so that it gets a quicker response. On a server like Jolt, the turning FasterFox off could increase speed as the already overloaded Jolt server will have less to process.

...FasterFox has more than one setting, FWIW. I've used it, and have no problems with it. The thing to remember is not to leave it at the default settings.

...FasterFox has more than one setting, FWIW. I've used it, and have no problems with it. The thing to remember is not to leave it at the default settings.

So it's SpamFox? :p

Yes, I know Opera is faster.

It's just that speed is only ONE of the things I look for in a browser. ;)
Aye...the primary things I look for are ease of use, versatility, security, speed of browsing and the speed of application.

Of those FF trumps Opera only in versatility and at the cost of security and speed. :D

Well, that and compatibility: Pages are tested more with IE & FF than Opera (while Opera is still standards compliant, more so than [at least] IE).

btw. The new default UI isn't new user friendly though, IMO.

Does Opera have a native amd64 binary for it like Firefox

Ok, there's also the fact that Opera isn't open source - so you might not find the proper binaries for your esoteric system and can't compile them yourself ;)

(btw. I have no idea what releases there are, but there are a lot of them :D)

If it's just one, then Tab Mix Plus.

FasterFox is hated by all webservers everywhere. All it does is make FF send multiple page requests in at once so that it gets a quicker response. On a server like Jolt, the turning FasterFox off could increase speed as the already overloaded Jolt server will have less to process.

So.....
I cause threadjacks?

It's all about Stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108).

Userstyles FTW.

What are these extensions? Do you need them to add minimal functionality to your browser? Isn't Firefox also leaky and slow as hell, at least with the necessary extensions?

Signed by:
- The carefree Opera user

:D
Flexible modules that add much more then basic functionality

And opera? is that not slow as hell with basic functionality bad formatting and frustrating to control?

Signed by:
-The whatever the hell works guy

http://www.youdontevenrealize.com/pictures/forums.jpg

Ok, there's also the fact that Opera isn't open source - so you might not find the proper binaries for your esoteric system and can't compile them yourself ;)

(btw. I have no idea what releases there are, but there are a lot of them :D)
Esoteric? AMD64 is the second most common architecture among Linux distros. Hell even Windows has a AMD64 port and they don't support fuck all architecture wise.
So.....
I cause threadjacks?
You make an over worked server have to work even harder.

I am using FF on Ubuntu 7.04...

I use the del.icio.us extension a lot. A "tag" button allows you to update your del.icio.us bookmarks instantly.

I also use the [unofficial] eBay extension which is the BEST extension ever if you use eBay and useless if you don't.
It A) shows thumbnails of all the items listed whether the lister has paid for that or not
B) removes all ads
C) links you to your own eBay acc (defaults to eBay.com rather than eBay.anythingelse )

I am a big fan of DownThemAll which lets you select all the content of a page for downloading. No more "Right-click - Save As, Right-click - Save As, Right-click - Save As...." now it's just "Right Click - DownThemAll".

Aye...the primary things I look for are ease of use, versatility, security, speed of browsing and the speed of application.

Of those FF trumps Opera only in versatility and at the cost of security and speed. :D

Well, that and compatibility: Pages are tested more with IE & FF than Opera (while Opera is still standards compliant, more so than [at least] IE).

btw. The new default UI isn't new user friendly though, IMO.



Ok, there's also the fact that Opera isn't open source - so you might not find the proper binaries for your esoteric system and can't compile them yourself ;)

(btw. I have no idea what releases there are, but there are a lot of them :D)

Well if it does not run on my system that rules it out ... Ice weasel is a breeze to install and work with

Esoteric? AMD64 is the second most common architecture among Linux distros. Hell even Windows has a AMD64 port and they don't support fuck all architecture wise.

You make an over worked server have to work even harder.

Yeah ... though the cross port 32 bit one SHOULD work fine on the AMD64 ... they usually do anyways

As for extensions I use:

Tab Mix Plus
CuteMenus SVG
Long Titles
AdBlock Plus

Yeah ... though the cross port 32 bit one SHOULD work fine on the AMD64 ... they usually do anyways
If you can get the libraries setup. Not fun to do with dpkg/apt.

If you can get the libraries setup. Not fun to do with dpkg/apt.

True ... personally I just shoot for iceweasel when I have a gui which is rare

downloadhelper is the deal.

True ... personally I just shoot for iceweasel when I have a gui which is rare
I'm roxing Iceweasel now.

In a weird twist, Debian's Iceweasel actually uses more memory the Ubuntu's FF. Usually it has been the other way around.

Only the bare essentials. Adblock plus and NoScript.

I can't imagine browsing the web without them. So much spyware, so much malware.

Esoteric? AMD64 is the second most common architecture among Linux distros. Hell even Windows has a AMD64 port and they don't support fuck all architecture wise.

My post wasn't targeted for you, per se. It was just a comment about the open source nature of the Firefox and thus the unlimited portability

As for your question, I truly don't know the answer. I once had to dig for Sparc Solaris version of Opera and found it...While doing that I looked at other OSes supported and it was quite a list...In anycase, that's about as much I know about different binaries available (I did this with Opera 7.5, IIRC, so it was a *long* time ago before 64 bit AMD era) :)

Flexible modules that add much more then basic functionality
Yes, y'see what Opera redefines is 'basic functionality'. ;)

Then again, the best browser to use is the one you're most comfortable using - Absolutes don't mean a squat. Knowing that there are choices other than the 'standard alternative' is better :)

ps. Lynx FTW! ;)

My post wasn't targeted for you, per se. It was just a comment about the open source nature of the Firefox and thus the unlimited portability

As for your question, I truly don't know the answer. I once had to dig for Sparc Solaris version of Opera and found it...While doing that I looked at other OSes supported and it was quite a list...In anycase, that's about as much I know about different binaries available (I did this with Opera 7.5, IIRC, so it was a *long* time ago before 64 bit AMD era) :)


Yes, y'see what Opera redefines is 'basic functionality'. ;)

Then again, the best browser to use is the one you're most comfortable using - Absolutes don't mean a squat. Knowing that there are choices other than the 'standard alternative' is better :)

ps. Lynx FTW! ;)

Lol btw that is Links not Lynx :) but close (not apparent without the menu up) but Links is WAY better

I'm roxing Iceweasel now.

In a weird twist, Debian's Iceweasel actually uses more memory the Ubuntu's FF. Usually it has been the other way around.

Hmmm dont know, do not have a gui *nix machine to play around with it right now lol

Hmmm dont know, do not have a gui *nix machine to play around with it right now lol

But how do you look at porn while creating symbolic links?

*hangs out with all the cool Linux kids*

*hangs out with all the cool Linux kids*
[tries to fit in with normal people]On Linux you can run any hardware you want--anything on the market. Or you can make your own hardware, if you're good with electronics...[/fitting in]

*hangs out with all the cool Linux kids*

Which one of the six zillion versions of *nix?

Which one of the six zillion versions of *nix?

Depends on what you want to do with it

Adblock and BugMeNot are win.

Adblock and BugMeNot are win.

Two good ones ... I actually kill them one to help a game I am involved with but for the most part they are helpful as hell

Which one of the six zillion versions of *nix?My guess is Ubuntu. Everyone and their dog has installed Ubuntu.

My guess is Ubuntu. Everyone and their dog has installed Ubuntu.

And most installed it on their dog.

And most installed it on their dog.
The were confused by the CD and thought it was a Frisbee.

~~snip~~
Have you tried dual booting Vista and *nix. I'm having some problems with it. Mostly installing Grub causes Vista to display some freaky text on the screen like someone failed at ncurses instead of booting.