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

[t3chnomag3.livejournal.com]

Well, and I guess that's where we disagree. Fact is there aren't enough Moz devs out there to get out all the features everyone may want, which makes the ability for anyone to modify FF extremely powerful in my opinion. Yes, you have to weed out the bad extensions, and yes, it makes it more difficult for the average user, but if the FF way of doing things can make even one average user less of a sheep that MS has made people into, hey, that's cool too.

The problem I have with giving people every single option under the sun is also business and confusion. I like not having to search through layers upon layers of menus to find the one option I want every single time I want to change it.

As for what you want, I didn't understand your description of what paste-and-go you wanted, but here are some possible extesnsions that might help.

Paste-and-go
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=65

Gestures
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=12
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=29
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=39
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=390

[desh]

Yeah, that's the paste-and-go extension that I've tried and that doesn't act the way I want. (And I remember having trouble installing it once or twice, too.) And I've tried two of those gestures plugins, and wasn't satisfied. It's just not worth my effort to keep trying. But thanks anyway.