Opera 9 Beta

Originally Posted by Eleo

Biggest thing that bothers me is how it can't assume desired website like Firefox. If I type in "Pedro's Tracker" in Firefox's address bar, it will google that and take me to the first result, which would actually be btmusic.org:2710. Opera can certainly wrap www. and .com/.org/.net around a single word, like if I entered "gamingforce", but it doesn't have that same functionality as Firefox; it will google the false address and take me to the search results. I have become quite accustomed to this feature in Firefox, especially for websites like btmusic.org:2710 that are somewhat of a chore to type manually.

This isn't the most elegant, but if you go into Tools > Preferences > Search Engines (it's the third tab), hit the New button there. Then name it like... "Google Lucky" or something, for the keyword, use whatever (gl is what I'll say), then in the URL field, type the following:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnI=Google+Search

Now, to mirror that functionality in Firefox, all you've got to do is type `gl THING` to search and be sent at the first result. Again, not the most elegant, but it's what I'd suggest.

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Search engines next to the address bar. I want more, I want them in the order that I want, and I want to be able to delete them when I want.

Same thing as above. Go into Tools > Preferences > Search Engines and alter them as you like here.

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Don't try to open and run my torrent files. uTorrent > you

Again, this is something you could have solved by looking in the preferences. Tools > Preferences > Advanced, then hit Downloads Disable the Hide types handled by Opera option near the top-right, then search for application/x-bittorrent, and hit Edit on it. Change what program is used to one of the fields further down instead of "Opera" (like "Use default program" or something), and then Opera won't handle torrent files anymore.

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Doesn't have Adblock + Filterset.G, which makes my online experience 99% ad-free.

I use adzapper, so it works fine for me. Tried one of those ad filtering programs? I know Windows has them, and a lot of them do just as good a job as Adblock. Even so, I generally don't block certain ads as site make their money that way.

And Aard got the last one~

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Eleo

Okay, I missed that. I didn't think the "Save as type" drop-down menu would have this. I don't think it should have to be selected but rather should be default. If I only wanted the source code I'd just right-click the page and look at the source code.

Well, Firefox requires the exact same thing, and I want source only most of the time. Is this anything beyond personal choice?

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Or I can just click on links that automatically add new engines, line in Firefox, but okay.

Oh well? In retrospect, none of those engine add links ever worked for me. Nor did themes, and I had to manually install them. Don't mention the site security thing, since that's too confusing.

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See that's pretty complicated if you ask me. Like I said, useability. Firefox would just ask me what program I wanted to open the file when I clicked on it, but of course in Opera I have to go dig through the settings to get what I want done.

And yet you tout Firefox for ease of use? Firefox is a pain to use for me, and most I've tried to show it to because it whores memory, and has NO features worth note over IE (save Tabs) out of the box that people care about. Also, if you told Firefox to automatically act on Torrents with a certain program, then changed your preference, you'd have just as much trouble changing it, since it's in the configuration.

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Sage external ad blockers when Firefox has one integrated. Last thing I need is another background process running on my 4-year-old computer.

If this is your version of internal, I'd love to hear how you came to think that. It's external--an extension, same as other things; same as the blocker I use (which is, factually, just a local proxy with the adzapper script installed).

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And just because you have ads in your face doesn't mean you're clicking them.

Impressions. And I do actually click a lot of them, though I tend to use the Ctrl+W shortcut immediately afterwards. With adblock, that's not even possible, since a lot of its filters catch things I actually want. All the AdSense clones and such, for instance.

Regardless, whatever browser works for you works. I just don't understand how you hate Opera for being hard to use and crap, when it's not at all, and has a bunch of neat things integrated which Firefox lacks.

Really not trying to turn this into browser wars, guys~

There's nowhere I can't reach.