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The thing I liked about Opera was the lack of plugins. No waiting for 10 add0-ins you've never heard of to update themsleves and ask you to restart your comput
by opiuygtfrtghyju 16y ago
The thing I liked about Opera was the lack of plugins.
No waiting for 10 add0-ins you've never heard of to update themsleves and ask you to restart your computer.
No having to search the net for add-ins to do things like toggle image loading or prevent popups.
- aaront 16y agoThese aren't Firefox add-ins. These are small pieces of JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Probably won't bog down your browser any more than UserJS scripts.
- Pistos2 16y agoAccording to them, these new extensions will also have [more?] control over tabs and windows, which plain JS (like their existing Widgets) cannot do. http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getting-started-with-opera-extensions/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getting-started-with-oper...
- carussell 16y agoIf you haven't heard of them, why do you have them? Why don't you get rid of them? I'm also interested in what kind of add-ons you have installed that require you to restart your computer. I also don't see how the existence of extensions is a downside for a browser. Firefox ships with none to begin with.
- opiuygtfrtghyju 16y agoDependencies. You want to toggle image loading (opera's original killer feature), that uses the wibble library witch needs the flooble dll. So you get a message telling you a new flooble library is available everytime you start to browse. The plugins generally don't need a restart - but under windows the default for installer examples is to restart and the guy that did the flooble binary packaging didn't bother to change it.