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

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

firefox usually uses about 440 megs for me, but I usually have 30-50 tabs open. Does Opera use significantly less?

not in my experience. in fact if i have a complaint about opera it is its memory management (on windows). i bet it still leaks too.

PDF Download - When you click to a PDF link, it offers you the option of saving it to disk rather than opening it

ghod yes; i hate online pdf viewing -- i can set that as an option in opera. i can set that as an option for any filetype. and i can decide to view or edit any filetype in an external application.

greasemonkey sounds like fun, though i can modify how i view other websites within opera as well, and then switch with one click. it's not anywhere as flexible though as greasemonkey sounds.