Mozilla Firefox VS. Internet Explorer

[superart]

when did u use opera? The new version7 is just as stable as FF.

[lukr]

Opera 8.beta is out for some time. downloadable from Opera's ftp (ftp://ftp.opera.com/ )

[superart]

Im really happy with opera7 right now, and I have exeem beta right now on my system too. Dont like having too many betas installed at once.

[Susquehannock]

Opera - was quite a while back. The part I really liked was the R/L mouse click forward/back
feature. Will have to give it a try again.

[superart]

mouse gestures and right click-wheel to switch between pannels is my favorite
that and default saving of sessions--like if your computer crashes or whatever, your session (back/forward status, open pannels, etc) get saved. Very usefull.

[maxSaleen]

That whole tabbed browsing thing.... it just makes so much sense. Yeah, I'm a firefox fanboy.

[Etacovda]

Useful list from a forum i frequent

Originally posted by porges
Just thought a thread with lists of various useful Firefox plugins would be nice, they're rather hard to find being scattered all over the internet

• Adblock Ad blocker. (Get filters from http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/)
• Bookmark Backup 0.3.3 - Creates a backup of bookmarks.html each time the browser is closed. (There seem to be a couple of bugs with Firefox bookmarks, so for safety...)
• BugMeNot 0.6.1 - Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via www.bugmenot.com. (Good for online newspapers.)
• ChatZilla 0.9.67 - A simple, straightforward Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. (IRC in Firefox. Huzzah!)
• ColorZilla 0.8.2 - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
• Diggler 0.9 - A URL manipulation tool for power users (Has links to current page in Google cache/archive.org.)
• Fangs Screen Reader Emulator 0.73 - Renders a text version of a web page similar to screen reader output.
• fireFTP 0.87 - FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. (FTP in Firefox. Huzzah!)
• ForecastFox 0.5.9 - Get international weather forecasts from weather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension.
• FoxyTunes 1.1.1 - Control any media player from Firefox and more... (Hurrah, more screen space.)
• Gmail Notifier 0.4.2 - A notifier for Gmail accounts. (How could you do without it?)
• Html Validator (based on Tidy) 0.5.5 - Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The validation is done by Tidy from W3c.
• IDN Info 0.6.2 - Display information on IDNs (Helps prevent phishing.)
• Link Toolbar 0.9.1 - A site-navigation toolbar
• ListZilla 0.5.1 - Outputs an alphabetical list of either extensions or themes to a text, vB code, or HTML file. (What I used to make this .)
• Live HTTP Headers 0.10 - View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.
• MiniT+ 20050216.1 - Adds a few tab related functions (updated to better version)
• Mozilla Archive Format 0.4.3 - Save complete web pages in a single file.
• Sage 1.3.1 - A lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator.
• SessionSaver .2 0.2.1.027 - Magically restores your last browsing session. (One of the best plugins. Everything comes back exactly as it was when you closed Firefox.)
• SpellBound 0.7.3 - Adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions. (Anti-pedant tool .)
• undoclosetab 20041126 - Adds Undo Close Tab.
• Web Developer 0.9.3 - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
• wmlbrowser 0.6.8 - Display WML (Wireless Markup Language) content. (Browse sites intended for mobile phones. Haven't been able to access Vodafone's however )
• XHTML Ruby Support 1.3.2005022401 - Adds XHTML Ruby support. Ruby texts will be rendered above the base texts, as a small text.
• ChromEdit 0.1.1.1 - A Simple User Profile File Editor (added)
• About site 0.1.1 - Quick access to site metadata - traffic, related and linked pages, and more. (added)

Originally posted by Etacovda
excellent list, cheers

sessionsaver link needs to be changed, i think

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more...p/sessionsaver

[maxSaleen]

Firefox all the way. Moreso for the cool looking icon Tabbed browsing rules (that is available in a beta of IE 1.whatever). I just wish that when I closed one tab, it would return me to the last tab I was looking at.

[superart]

Originally Posted by maxSaleen

I just wish that when I closed one tab, it would return me to the last tab I was looking at.

Opera does that.

[lukr]

Originally Posted by superart

Opera does that.

just wanted to say that.

BTW is there an extension that can make coffee? That would be something not built-in in Opera, and would realy use.
:]

[dacooltech]

I've been using with FF for quite some time, and love it... I recently installed Opera 8.5 BTW, and that's a great browser too... Both of them are much better than IE IMHO

[superart]

I've been meaning to install Opera8 for a while.

For those who use it, does it fix the problem with printing web pages that have frames?

That is pretty much the only bug/annoyance that Opera has, IMO.

[pHaestus]

Websites have frames?

[jaydee]

Not sure if that was sarcastic or not but yeah websites use frames. The last one's I built with frames has a top frame a left frame and the main frame. If you click a link on the left frame the window opened in the main frame leaving the top and left frame in view. There are better ways to do it than frames though. Most have moved on to better methods.

[superart]

ph? Sarcastic? nooooo....never.......

[scalez]

i'm a firefox man, i'm a slave to tabbed browsing, espically in forums

[lukr]

tabbed browsing?

[superart]

lol.
fiend.

and I thought I was bad.



btw, do you use the Opera mail client?

[lukr]

yes, i think i use it since 7.something.
Mail+RSS feeds are open on the left, and i have ~1024px left for webpages.

(was thinking about removing the tab bar, its pretty much pointless )

[superart]

how do you like the mail client?

I tried using it when 7.0 first came out, but it was too weird.

Eventually I just converted entirely to web-based email for all of my accounts because of the convenience.

[lukr]

well. it works for me. Some ppl say its weird/strange/c***/etc. And some other ppl like it.
Mail filters sometimes can act strangely, but after reading the mail filter tutorial at Opera's website i could set it up properly.
Can handle large amount of mails&RSS messages without slowing down.

Give it a try.

As for web-based mails i use one Gmail account for some high traffic mailing lists, and as a "storage" for mails/links/files i might need when im not at home.

[mx-6*]

IE is best when its disabled completely.

For some reason there are a few sites that I go to that dont work with Firefox though. Must be because they are military sites.