Browser wars

[desh]

Things that Opera has that Firefox doesn't, and that keep me from switching to FF:

• Real paste-and-go at the cursor point in the address bar, not "go to whatever URL I have stored in my clipboard, regardless of the current contents of the address bar"
  
  
• A good session saver
  
  • some modicum of a UI
    
  • distinct session files that I can locate on my hard drive
    
  • the ability to save and load multiple sessions, not just one at at a time
  
  
• Good gesture support
  
  • Overloaded gesture commands (e.g. "down-right means 'close tab', unless there are no tabs open, in which case 'close window'")
    
  • Gestures that don't cancel themselves if I wait too long before releasing the right mouse button
    
  • Better movement recognition
  
  
• Easily configurable toolbars
  
  
• Tab configuration
  
  • Tab focus that goes to the most recently used tab, rather than the next tab to the right, when I close the active tab
    
  • A tab close box immediately below the primary close box, at the top right of my screen
  
  
• The ability to use less than half a gig of memory to handle the dozens of tabs and multiple windows that I usually have open at once
  
  
• Probably a couple other things that I can't think of off the top of my head
  
  
• The ability to do all of these without hunting through thousands of extensions, fighting to install them, keeping them upgraded, and finding out that it's no longer supported or that a rival extension does what I want better

These are all subtle things, but major usability things for me. If any of you FF nuts can solve them for me, then it will go from my second-favorite browser to my favorite. Promise.

Comments

[burr86.livejournal.com]

"Tab focus that goes to the most recently used tab, rather than the rightmost tab, when I close the active tab" -- huh! That's something I totally hate, and specifically turned off when I installed my the TabWhatever extention for FF. If I have 20 tabs open, I don't remember which I used most recently. I like for it to just jump to the next tab in the list. :)

[desh]

It's funny...sometimes I want one and sometimes I want the other. Ideally I'd have two different close-tab gestures, one for each preferred next tab focus. But I'd settle for just having the one I like more often, which is most-recently-used.