virtuelvis.com — With the Free Registration key Opera is giving away today, a lot of Firefox users are moaning about the extensions they are missing. This website lists a number of common Firefox extensions and their Opera equivalents (internal or external).
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samkAug 30, 2005
The close X button appears in the upper right corner if you disable it in tabs. You can also close the tab with a right click, or CTRL-W.
samkAug 30, 2005
oops... wrong thread!
bleh123Aug 31, 2005
a cookie to anyone who can tell me how to make ctrl-n open a new tab in firefox 1.06. I have tabbrowser preferences 1.2.7.1.
jammerdelrayAug 31, 2005
I love firefox....since netscape 8.033 came out which uses both firefox and IE to render, I decided to give it a try...I'm amazed at how good it is...I can get windows updates right from in netscape....choose to let IE render pages not fit for firefox as well as antiphishing definations updated every hour. Netscape is in the midst of converting all firefox extensions for use in it's browser which is just going to be awesome. Give it a try. I tried opera and yea it works but lots of rendering problems with it and get this It's built on IE! I'm happy I made the switch to netscape so try it
ravenlockAug 31, 2005
@Jammerdelray: ...No, Opera is not built on IE. It is able to masquerade as IE, same as Firefox can, but it has its own rendering engine that is far superior to IE's in adhering to standards.Me, I still use FF primarily, but Opera's also a great browser and certainly shouldn't be tainted with falsehoods. ;-)
freegooAug 31, 2005
The big thing holding me back from Opera is lack of a Roboform plugin. Not necesarily their fault, but just can't stand browsing without it. I know about Wand, but Wand pretty much sucks. Other plugins I would like to see: Noscript - permits/denies javascript on a per site basis and Permit cookies (Does same thing, with cookies).Completely off topic... It's awesome how fast Opera is at rendering though, especially for pages that you have been to. Try pressing the back button on IE/Mozilla and then do it in Opera. That's the way it should be for them all!
vuzmanAug 31, 2005
@Jammerdelray: Opera is definitely *not* built on IE.
pkscoutAug 31, 2005
OK, nevermind (sort of). digg loads in Opera, but it takes like 30 seconds to load any page. So Opera is blazingly fast *except* on digg.
arveSep 2, 2005
There is now also more detailed a follow-up: <a class="user" href="http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/09/opera-and-firefox-extensions-ii">http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/09/opera-and-firefox-extensions-ii</a>
jammerdelraySep 9, 2005
I don't see how this compares to firefox extensions....firefox extensions are much more efficent and you don't have to go into editing the config, useless
jammerdelraySep 9, 2005
opera is built on ie....go and hit the about tab and it will tell you so...also you can click for it to tell websites that it is internet explorer!