Opera vs. Firefox

[krohnjw]

I just said interesting read
I am certainly not looking to sway any opinions. As far as I care everyone can use Johns browser 2.78 and complain til their heart's content.

[brandon184]

I've tried both Opera and Mozilla. I find Opera's interface to be rather convoluted. I also find the price interesting. It's not like we're comparing two free browsers and one that requires a $5 subscription. Opera is $40 - and I most definitely cannot see anything that would justify that cost.

[ExSuS]

I was using Opera for a couple months, now im using firefox, and Im really torn. Dont know weather to go back to Opera or stay with firefox. Both are excelent browsers.

[OuTpaTienT]

I like how you can shift things around, add, remove, etc. to/from the toolbars. It allows you to get them weeded down to only what you use and therefore save space. You can even put the throbber animation wherever you want. (See my current toolbar configuration in the attached image file.)

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And to help with customizing the toolbars, I figured out how to adjust the size of the search (Google) input box.

• - Goto your Firefox profiles folders and find the file named localstore.rdf
  
  
• - Look in that file with a text editor for this block of text:
  <RDF:Description
  RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#search-bar"
  searchengine="engine://C%3A%5CPROGRA%7E1%5CMOZILL%7E1%5Csearchplugins%5Cg oogle.src"
  autocompletesearchparam="q" />
  
  (Probably not that exact engine string with the C%3A%5CPROGR.... crap but it's likely to look similar. )
  
  
• Anyways, if you can find that then all you got to do is add a parimeter value after the autocomple.....="q" and before the />
  
  
• - Here's two parimeters that successfully worked:
  width="100" (width of the search box, make it any value you wish)
  hidden="true" (obviously this hides/disables the search box from the toolbar)
  
  
• - So with the width value added it'd look like this in the localstore.rdf file
  
  <RDF:Description
  RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#search-bar"
  searchengine="engine://C%3A%5CPROGRA%7E1%5CMOZILL%7E1%5Csearchplugins%5Cg oogle.src"
  autocompletesearchparam="q"
  width="100" />

[surreal]

I thought you used Mozilla?

[elmers]

Its all about what youre used to. opera.

[OuTpaTienT]

Quote:

Originally Posted by surreal

I thought you used Mozilla?

Firefox basically is Mozilla. It's the same core in a leaner, meaner package and a few minor tweaks. The company is moving away the Mozilla Suite of applications and shifting their development focus on Firefox and other stand alone applications (like Thunderbird for email, etc.). The Mozilla Suite was getting bloated and clunky (development-wise) so it looks like they're just going to stop feeding the lizard and hope he eventually dies. And all the new development and technology will now be going into Firefox. So I figure I may as well migrate over to FF now instead of waiting fill the last minute.

[Pork132]

I was using firefox for about 3 months but I just switched back to Opera and I have to say i really like it.

[mimic]

I use Opera and have for years. I've checked out other browsers like FF, only to see what they're like but they just don't compare to Opera when it comes to speed and customization, imo.

[OuTpaTienT]

I can be an Opera user too. Someone just send me $40.