OT Firefox, gotta love it

Being able to restore a tab that you just closed by mistake...

Or maybe there is a better feature. Or maybe you like some other
browser better. Okey-dokey.

On 24 Feb 2012 03:16:40 GMT, John Doe put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Being able to restore a tab that you just closed by mistake...

Opera can do that and much more.

For example, if my older version of Opera is having trouble rendering
a particular site, I can r-click the page and relaunch it in another
browser, eg Firefox. :-)

One feature that I really love is being able to r-click a URL and open
Google's cached text-only version of it. This is particularly useful
when I know that the target web site will be full of banners, ads,
flash, and other annoyances. I can also choose to open the actual URL
in an alternative minimalist browser such as OffByOne which does not
support Javascript or Java. Of course, to do the above, I've had to
add my own customised extensions to Opera's context menus.

One other feature that I use extensively is Opera's customised
searches. I have created about 50 in all. These allow me to look for a
PDF manual, search for datasheets, search for Google images of a
certain type and minimum size, search for a spare part at various
suppliers, etc.

For example, the following search is initiated with a single click:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22au...ions%22&num=25

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On 24/02/12 11:16 AM, John Doe wrote:
Being able to restore a tab that you just closed by mistake...

Or maybe there is a better feature. Or maybe you like some other
browser better. Okey-dokey.

Is it called "session control"?

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Franc Zabkar fzabkar iinternode.on.net wrote:

John Doe jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote:

Being able to restore a tab that you just closed by mistake...

Opera... One feature that I really love is being able to r-click
a URL and open Google's cached text-only version of it. This is
particularly useful when I know that the target web site will be
full of banners, ads, flash, and other annoyances.

Thanks to Adblock, there are hardly any such annoyances in
Firefox. Without having to know anything about the target
website.


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I can also choose to open the actual URL
in an alternative minimalist browser such as OffByOne which does not
support Javascript or Java. Of course, to do the above, I've had to
add my own customised extensions to Opera's context menus.

One other feature that I use extensively is Opera's customised
searches. I have created about 50 in all. These allow me to look for a
PDF manual, search for datasheets, search for Google images of a
certain type and minimum size, search for a spare part at various
suppliers, etc.

For example, the following search is initiated with a single click:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22au...ions%22&num=25

- Franc Zabkar

On Feb 24, 4:14 pm, John Doe wrote:

I have not noticed any disruptive Firefox behavior lately.
Currently using version 10.0.2. Haven't been pushing my computer
much with gaming or other stuff, but have pushed the browser.

It's not as popular as it once was. Mine's really old compared to
yours, but I've extension additions that later FF versions rejected,
so I in return rejected FF and use Opera for its simplicity (one
install, copy the *small & simple* C\etc.\opera config dir and that's
it - wipe the hd whatever and with that dir backed up Opera may as
well be standalone). Not that I don't use FF exclusively for 99%
browsing and normal sites -- only not Walmart, Sears, HomeDepot, Ford
Motors, someplace like that. Forget it. Takes Opera and then if
lucky might get something done. If I "push" a browser, hard, I
restore the operating system -- some sites play mean hardball. Cross
my fingers, I guess - could be on borrowed time with my version of FF.

On 2012-02-24 14:16:40 +1100, John Doe said:

Being able to restore a tab that you just closed by mistake...

Or maybe there is a better feature. Or maybe you like some other
browser better. Okey-dokey.

If only it was able to manage memory properly it would be an excellent
browser. Firefox is still plagued with memory leaks in its
Javascript/DOM machinery. I have seen long running enterprise web
applications running in FF which have eaten up a couple of GB of
memory. The same web app running for the same length of time in Chrome
or Safari used only a couple of hundred MB and the amount of growth
stabilized. With FF the amount of memory used increased forever.

The Firefox debugger (Firebug) is truly excellent however.

On 24 Feb 2012 15:50:21 GMT, John Doe put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar fzabkar iinternode.on.net wrote:

John Doe jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote:

Being able to restore a tab that you just closed by mistake...

Opera... One feature that I really love is being able to r-click
a URL and open Google's cached text-only version of it. This is
particularly useful when I know that the target web site will be
full of banners, ads, flash, and other annoyances.

Thanks to Adblock, there are hardly any such annoyances in
Firefox. Without having to know anything about the target
website.

In Opera you can specify undesirable URLs in Blocked Content. However,
you have to keep updating this list. I haven't tried, but it may be
possible to import a Firefox Adblock list.

I also have a Flash blocker.

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On Feb 23, 9:16*pm, John Doe wrote:
Being able to restore a tab that you just closed by mistake...


I like it and use it but for me the last few months have been very
annoying due to the large number of released versions that did not
seem to be stable. I like the large number of plug-ins that have been
created for it.

I have not noticed any disruptive Firefox behavior lately.

That is, with the exception of flash player, but it has messed up
in Internet Explorer too.