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I'm attempting the painful process of switching browsers away from Opera after several years1. So I'm trying to replace Opera's unique functionality with extensions and add-ons but haven't figured it all out yet. If you can help me out with any of these functions or something similar in either Firefox or Chrome, please say so!
I've started work practice this week as well as installing a new OS (Ubuntu 11.045 Natty Narwhal beta) this weekend and subsequently switching over to it2 so I'm kind of short on time until I get the hang of this new schedule (and like, leaving the house regularly and needing more sleep!). I'm really having fun so far though.
Also, I still remember 1st and 2nd grade with some clarity, and this school is so much better than mine were. (No surprise, I guess, since Finland has the best-performing primary/secondary education in the world and the US's is pretty far down the list, plus I'm pretty sure Alabama is far from the top of US performance.) I wish my school's pedagogical philosophy had been more like this.
1. I still love it, but the issues with flash are getting worse rather than better and it's started freezing during bookmark management and failing to import/export bookmarks, which is the last straw.
2. I accidentally slightly borked Mint with the Ubuntu install, but since I instantly liked the Ubuntu upgrade better and it seems stable enough, I decided not to reinstall Mint at all. Yet. If Ubuntu doesn't work out and neither does Gnome 3 - final release in a few days! - then I can always go back. I wasn't running the latest release, anyway.
- Tab stacks: Opera 11 lets you drag tabs on top of each other and collapse groups of them into "stacks". After using it for only like a month I already miss this functionality like crazy. I downloaded a tab grouping extension, but it added an extra toolbar on top, which wasn't what I wanted at all, so I deleted it again.
- Fit to width toolbar button: A button that forces the page to resize so it fits horizontally in the browser, eliminating any horizontal scrollbar.
- Author view toolbar button: disable the page's CSS with one click to view a page in plain html.
- Speed dial: My most-used bookmarks all accessible as thumbnails from my home page or each new blank tab opened. Bookmarks 1-9 accessible through keyboard shortcut ctrl+#.
- Dragonfly (developer view) toolbar button. Clicking the button opens a pane that analyzes the code and CSS of the page, letting you click and examine each element. Most useful for getting around pages that disable right-click, but also for fixing CSS.
- The tab bar above the navigation bar.
I've started work practice this week as well as installing a new OS (Ubuntu 11.045 Natty Narwhal beta) this weekend and subsequently switching over to it2 so I'm kind of short on time until I get the hang of this new schedule (and like, leaving the house regularly and needing more sleep!). I'm really having fun so far though.
Also, I still remember 1st and 2nd grade with some clarity, and this school is so much better than mine were. (No surprise, I guess, since Finland has the best-performing primary/secondary education in the world and the US's is pretty far down the list, plus I'm pretty sure Alabama is far from the top of US performance.) I wish my school's pedagogical philosophy had been more like this.
1. I still love it, but the issues with flash are getting worse rather than better and it's started freezing during bookmark management and failing to import/export bookmarks, which is the last straw.
2. I accidentally slightly borked Mint with the Ubuntu install, but since I instantly liked the Ubuntu upgrade better and it seems stable enough, I decided not to reinstall Mint at all. Yet. If Ubuntu doesn't work out and neither does Gnome 3 - final release in a few days! - then I can always go back. I wasn't running the latest release, anyway.
