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10-05-2008, 08:05 AM
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#1 | | Still truckin'!
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Michigan
Posts: 380
 | Migration to Firefox from Opera
I think I've finally decided that I prefer Firefox over Opera, after playing with it for quite awhile now. Any tips on plugins to get for it?
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10-05-2008, 08:26 PM
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#2 | | Tech Support
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Florida Everglades
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10-05-2008, 08:38 PM
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#3 | | Tech Support
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Florida Everglades
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| My Firefox looks like this, sorry for the image size  
It has:
adblockPlus
hide menubar
AVG Search Scanner (Reports you of potentially Infected Sites when using google) :P
hide tab bar
nightly tester tools (to install unsuported plugins)
RealPlayer Browser record plugin
FishEye Tabs (shrinking tabs that expand as you run mouse over them)
Aging tabs (change color as you neglect them)
autohideStatusbar (hides the status bar when page finishes loading)
that's about it, I've only been using Firefox for a week, and I couldn't live without the Spell Check feature. 
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10-21-2008, 12:14 PM
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#4 | | It's superdad!
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Larchmont, NY
Posts: 2,944
| Here are mine (I've ranked them on a scale of ***** - most helpful - to * - least helpful):
*** Extensions (enabled: 23, disabled: 5; total: 28)
(note that the disabled ones don't work in FF3.x yet) - Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 ***** get rid of the ads!
- AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.9.90 ***** Fill in all those forms
- Alcohol Toolbar 1.1 [disabled] *
- AVG Safe Search 8.0 ***
- AVG Security Toolbar 2.0.20080718 ***
- BugMeNot 2.0 **
- Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3 ***** shows downloads in bottom bar
- DownThemAll! 1.0.3 **** download all links on a page
- Firebug 1.05 [disabled] *
- Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 2.5.3 ***** This is a great one - sync bookmarks between more than one computer
- IE Tab 1.5.20080823 ***** for windows updates or anything else that needs IE
- iMacros for Firefox 6.0.7.5 ***
- InfoLister 0.10 *** (created this listing)
- IsAdmin 2.1 [disabled] **
- Java Console 6.0.01 ***
- Java Console 6.0.05 ***
- Java Console 6.0.02 ***
- Java Console 6.0.03 ***
- Java Console 6.0.07 ***
- MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1 ****
- Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2 *
- NoScript 1.8.3.3 ***** protection from scripts you don't want
- OperaView 0.6.1 ***
- PayPal Plug-In for Firefox 2.0.45.0 [disabled] **
- Session Manager 0.6.2.3 ****
- Stylish 0.5.7 ****
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7pre.080728 ***** make those tabs do almost anything
- Web Developer 1.1.6 [disabled]*
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10-21-2008, 06:17 PM
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#5 | | Lifeflash'd and loving it
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Phoenix AZ US
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So what exactly made you switch? My experience with Opera was far superior to FireFox.
My usage experience with firefox (and iceweasel under Debian GNU/Linux) was that after adding one or two of the extensions, which seem to be prior versions of ones listed above, it would grind to a halt, take almost a minute to launch a UI and opera would load pages faster.
Not to mention all the pseudo-opensource/free software BS that mozilla has pulled with the branding and logos.
Honestly, Opera without any plugins does just as good as Fx with many system loading and slowing extensions. Not to mention the coolness that is operalink.
I expect this thread to somewhat go downhill after, what some evangilist will no likely take as a bashing of this thread, but that's my experience with Fx vs. Opera.
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10-21-2008, 08:23 PM
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#6 | | Tech Support
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Florida Everglades
Posts: 1,452
| never tried opera, but one thing is for sure is that both firefox and opera blow IE out of the water.
I've never have witnessed any lag times with Firefox since I got it...
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10-22-2008, 08:14 AM
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#7 | | It's superdad!
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Larchmont, NY
Posts: 2,944
| The only slowdown I noticed with FF is when I loaded AVG. If you remove the AVG plugin, Opera and FF are about the same. Opera does have some pretty cool widgets though. | |
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