I just completed trying Firefox and Opera again. Unfortunately, the online database that I use for work is incompatable with both of them. Written in Javascript from what I can deciper from the source code, yet none of the standard buttons and editing areas work as they should using something other than MSIE.
Just adds a bit of convenience if you search through either of those sites for things often.
I prefer an easier solution ... just make a bookmark to the URL you use to search, and put %s for the search word in ... then give this bookmark a keyword.
For example, I have a bookmark set to http://wow.allakhazam.com/search.html?q=%s
with the keyword "a" ... For a search on Allakhazam all I have to do is type "a searchword" into the adressfield.
Sariash, I used to do this all the time, but then I got frustrated as it doesn't save a history of what you are searching.
You can use CTRL-K or CTRL-E to get to the search box quickly, so it's actually less keystrokes, especially if the search is in history :) and in the help it says you can use CTRL-DOWN to change search engines, but never got this to work :/
You can also delete the unwanted "default" search engines by deleting them from %FireFox Path%\searchplugins" too :)
I've been using Opera for a while, and I love the right-click-left-click back (and vice versa for forward) option, and the "fast forward" option for reading my enormous backlog of webcomics...
Anyone care to tell me I can set those two things up in Firefox, 'cause Opera is a little of what I like to call "actually manages to compete with WoW for resources...in the bad way..." Okay, so it's a LOT of that. Just sitting there with three pages open in Opera uses 67% of my processor. While WoW sits there with 33%, crying. It seems to have tons of memory AND thread/processing leaks...it's sad.
Anyway. I'm tring K-Maleon, but I think Firefox might better suite my general desires, if people can convince me its worthwhile. The keyword comment (I only use the "g ..." to google-search in opera, and I keep typing that into my IE browser, or my friend's firefox browser to no avail... :)) has made me think, maybe, just maybe, firefox might win this.
Is it more efficient than Opera? I can always just test that, of course. :)
When I had Opera I always used the mouse gestures (RMB+left/right) to go forward/back. Then when I got firefox I just installed the AIO gestures addon so I could do the same thing. You might want to try that. ;) (there's probably an addon to let you do the right-left click thing too)
Oh and on the searching thing, g and the text to search for works for me in firefox.[/url]
This is the new World and we see new dieties spawn and die as quickly as the life-cycle of the white-moth, yet some are here to stay. Firefox is one such diety of modability, if only all things followed its example. Now if only they'd switch from bloody javascript to Lua, my World would be an inch more towards perfection.
Anyway, this isn't just my usual mindless banter, no, this is a completely different form of banter, this is helpful banter. The right-click thingamjigger can indeed be done with Firefox, there are roughly 20 extensions out there that do this kind of thing and expand beyond it in ways almost beyond comprehension.
I'm not going to bother to list 'em out, instead I shall just point you to www.extensionsmirror.nl, it'll take a little effort to dig out your favourites but I have a large number of extensions running on my Firefox and I add to it often, my Firefox is so far from the defaults now it's not even recognizable.
Take the time and Firefox can do anything that any other browser can do but better, it can also do millions of things that no other browser can do thanks to a brilliant community.
Just replaced IEView with [ IETab ]. It lets you view pages in a firefox tab, with the IE engine. To switch, just leftclick the Firefox/IE Icon in the statusbar - or rightclick the icon to get to the options, where you can set pages that allways show with IE engine.
I've finally figured out how to edit and mess around with FF extensions, so I got a few that weren't working with 1.5rc2 to work again. If you see any on my list that you can't seem to find online just ask me and I'll send it to you :)
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I just completed trying Firefox and Opera again. Unfortunately, the online database that I use for work is incompatable with both of them. Written in Javascript from what I can deciper from the source code, yet none of the standard buttons and editing areas work as they should using something other than MSIE.
:cries:
Btw, 47% of site users are on Firefox now, 40% on MS. Come on everyone. We need more converts!
http://www.netdesign.net/~kitae/wow/thottbotplugin.html
http://wow.allakhazam.com/search.html
Just adds a bit of convenience if you search through either of those sites for things often.
I prefer an easier solution ... just make a bookmark to the URL you use to search, and put %s for the search word in ... then give this bookmark a keyword.
For example, I have a bookmark set to
http://wow.allakhazam.com/search.html?q=%s
with the keyword "a" ... For a search on Allakhazam all I have to do is type "a searchword" into the adressfield.
I got the same for Thottbot and for curse-gaming.
http://www.thottbot.com/?s=%s with keyword t
http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?s=%s&type=n_only with keyword c
(and g for google, w for wikipedia etc pp)
You can use CTRL-K or CTRL-E to get to the search box quickly, so it's actually less keystrokes, especially if the search is in history :) and in the help it says you can use CTRL-DOWN to change search engines, but never got this to work :/
You can also delete the unwanted "default" search engines by deleting them from %FireFox Path%\searchplugins" too :)
Someone has made a plugin for curse here
Firefox all the way!
Anyone care to tell me I can set those two things up in Firefox, 'cause Opera is a little of what I like to call "actually manages to compete with WoW for resources...in the bad way..." Okay, so it's a LOT of that. Just sitting there with three pages open in Opera uses 67% of my processor. While WoW sits there with 33%, crying. It seems to have tons of memory AND thread/processing leaks...it's sad.
Anyway. I'm tring K-Maleon, but I think Firefox might better suite my general desires, if people can convince me its worthwhile. The keyword comment (I only use the "g ..." to google-search in opera, and I keep typing that into my IE browser, or my friend's firefox browser to no avail... :)) has made me think, maybe, just maybe, firefox might win this.
Is it more efficient than Opera? I can always just test that, of course. :)
-x
Oh and on the searching thing, g and the text to search for works for me in firefox.[/url]
Anyway, this isn't just my usual mindless banter, no, this is a completely different form of banter, this is helpful banter. The right-click thingamjigger can indeed be done with Firefox, there are roughly 20 extensions out there that do this kind of thing and expand beyond it in ways almost beyond comprehension.
I'm not going to bother to list 'em out, instead I shall just point you to www.extensionsmirror.nl, it'll take a little effort to dig out your favourites but I have a large number of extensions running on my Firefox and I add to it often, my Firefox is so far from the defaults now it's not even recognizable.
Take the time and Firefox can do anything that any other browser can do but better, it can also do millions of things that no other browser can do thanks to a brilliant community.
Also: http://mastaile.mine.nu/current-extensions.html - updated every time my Firefox starts. :p *Show off.*
My Firefox Information
Last updated: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:47:46 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
[b]Extensions[/b] (enabled: 17, disabled: 0; total: 17)
[list]
[*]BBCodeXtra 0.2.5.4
[*]BugMeNot 0.8
[*]ChatZilla 0.9.68.5.1
[*]ColorZilla 0.8.3.1
[*]Copy Plain Text 0.3.1
[*]Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0
[*]Gmail Delete Button 3.3
[*]Gmail Notifier 0.5.3
[*]Greasemonkey 0.6.2.1
[*]IE Tab 1.0.6.1
[*]Image Zoom 0.2.1
[*]InfoLister 0.9c
[*]Nuke Anything Enhanced 0.51
[*]Paste and Go 0.4.3
[*]Restart Firefox 0.3
[*]Talkback 1.5
[*]TinyUrl Creator 1.0
[/list:u]
[b]Themes[/b] (5)
[list]
[*]Aquatint
[*]Firefox (default)
[*]Saferfox Xpanded
[*]ifox [selected]
[/list:u]
I've finally figured out how to edit and mess around with FF extensions, so I got a few that weren't working with 1.5rc2 to work again. If you see any on my list that you can't seem to find online just ask me and I'll send it to you :)
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Really nice for resizing the search box