Thursday, 20 March 2008

Moving from Opera to Firefox.... Here's the list of addons that I needed to install

I have just been through the same process (changing from Opera to Firefox).

Thanks to Tokei from http://stephan-mann.de/?p=5 for his article.
In addition to the addons that he listed, here are some gaps that I found and how I filled them:

Extended Statusbar 1.2.7: A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size (like Opera's one)

ImgLikeOpera 0.6.15: Allows load only the images that you want

keyconfig 20060828.1: Rebind your keys so that your Opera keystrokes can be used

PageZoom 0.3.3: Adds page zoom functionality.

Secure Login 0.9.1: A login extension similar to Opera's Wand login

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6: Tab browsing with an added boost.

User Agent Switcher 0.6.10: Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.

wmlbrowser 0.7.17: Display WML (Wireless Markup Language) content (for WAP sites)

Duplicate tabs: duplicatetabs

Once you have configured FireFox - you don't really want to do it again if your PC crashes - so backup your Firefox addon config using: mozbackup-portable-firefox-and-thunderbird-backup-tool

Here are more sites with interesting info and comments on the subject:
10-features-youll-find-only-in-opera
50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power-surfing
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousThu Mar 27, 01:05:00 am GMT+2

    Thanks HandyTipper. I included the Statusbar add-on from your list into my Firefox. I also wrote a follow-up article to my previous post.

    Did you get the FastForward add-on to work?

    greetings, tokei

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  2. HandyTechTipperThu Mar 27, 09:14:00 pm GMT+2

    Greetings tokei,

    Thanks for your updated post... good work mate!

    Sorry, I did not get to try the FastForward add-on.... in fact, I had to disable all add-ons because of very high memory and CPU usage caused by one of the add-ons (my whole PC had a slow response time).

    I disabled them all and Firefox returned to its speedy status....so, I am in the slow process of enabling them, one-by-one. {Problem is that the slowness appears after about 30 minutes!}

    As soon as I have found the culprit, I will (let the authors know and) try out FastForward.

    {If anyone has the solution, then please let me know!}

    Greetings

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  3. AnonymousFri Mar 28, 08:29:00 pm GMT+2

    Yes, I came across the same problem. Lucky for me, my notebook has a DualCore CPU, so Firefox is still running with acceptable speed. But it causes pretty high CPU load and it's nearly unusable with these add-ons on my single CPU business notebook.

    I'm not sure whether this is caused by a single add-on or just by the number of add-ons (more than 20). Maybe Firefox 3 will be faster.

    greetings, tokei

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  4. AnonymousMon Mar 31, 08:53:00 pm GMT+2

    Try deinstalling the MouseGesture add-on. Speeded up things considerably on my notebook.

    greetings, tokei

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