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I've been trying out Firefox 3.5 the last few days.
I'm going back to Firefox 3.1. This 3.5 version does seem to be faster when it works but when it doesn't pages never load. It's not worth the boredom and frustration of repeatedly hitting F5 to try to get a page to load.
Edit: Now that I've tried a couple of things it appears to be an incompatiblilty between FF 3.5 and NoScript. With NoScript disabled Firefox 3.5 seems to be working properly.
I spoke too soon. While NoScript exacerbates my issues with FireFox 3.5 disabling NoScript it has not improved page loading enough to keep the 3.5 version.
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to be all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." Robin Williams
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Or you could just use opera, problem solved.
I tried Opera for a few days, and just didn't like it. Firefox is the way to go if you ask me. One feature which I just cant live without, which Opera does not have (or didnt at the time) was to type what you are looking for in the address bar, and the page comes up. Now, true, Opera will send you to a Google search for it, but that is not what I mean. If I type in "eve wiki", it will open up the actual EVE wiki site. If I type "wowhead assassin's blade", it will come up with the Assassin's Blade item on wowhead. If I type "wikipedia mmorpg" it will pop up with the wikipedia entry for mmorpg's. It is a massive time saver, and is great when you know about what you are looking for, but dont know the address.
You can make your own search strings in opera, such as: g <something> will find "<something>" from google. Opera is really versatile browser once you know how to use it.
Those are search strings though, VERY different. If I type wikipedia, Firefox goes directly to wikipedia.org. No need to type anything else. If I type "wikipedia cat", it takes me directly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat. If I type "age of conan wiki" it goes directly to http://aoc.wikia.com/wiki/Age_of_Conan_Wiki. if I type "wow europe forums" it takes me directly to http://forums.wow-europe.com/welcome.html. Do you see my point? No need for searches. No need to remember addresses. Nothing. Type in what you want, and up it comes.Opera does not do this.
LMFAO you can fight about anything on these forums
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Those are search strings though, VERY different. If I type wikipedia, Firefox goes directly to wikipedia.org. No need to type anything else. If I type "wikipedia cat", it takes me directly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat. If I type "age of conan wiki" it goes directly to http://aoc.wikia.com/wiki/Age_of_Conan_Wiki. if I type "wow europe forums" it takes me directly to http://forums.wow-europe.com/welcome.html. Do you see my point? No need for searches. No need to remember addresses. Nothing. Type in what you want, and up it comes.Opera does not do this.
All except the one I underlined work just as you described in opera. I don't know what version you tried but this is with opera 10.
Those are search strings though, VERY different. If I type wikipedia, Firefox goes directly to wikipedia.org. No need to type anything else. If I type "wikipedia cat", it takes me directly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat. If I type "age of conan wiki" it goes directly to http://aoc.wikia.com/wiki/Age_of_Conan_Wiki. if I type "wow europe forums" it takes me directly to http://forums.wow-europe.com/welcome.html. Do you see my point? No need for searches. No need to remember addresses. Nothing. Type in what you want, and up it comes.Opera does not do this.
All except the one I underlined work just as you described in opera. I don't know what version you tried but this is with opera 10.
"About Opera
Version information
Version 10.01
Build 1844"
I type in "eve wiki", and it googles eve wiki. I type in "wikipedia cat", and it googles wikipedia cat. I type in "age of conan wiki" and it googles age of conan wiki... Doesn't seem to be working at all. And no, I am not using the google search bar, I am using the address bar, but they might as well be one and the same for this.
Would you mind telling me exactly what you are typing, where, and maybe some setting that might turn address finding on?
Advanced/General/Search for text when I start typing
I think that's the one.
I really prefer Google Chrome...
No xmarks addon on google chrome. And no add block either.
Those are search strings though, VERY different. If I type wikipedia, Firefox goes directly to wikipedia.org. No need to type anything else. If I type "wikipedia cat", it takes me directly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat. If I type "age of conan wiki" it goes directly to http://aoc.wikia.com/wiki/Age_of_Conan_Wiki. if I type "wow europe forums" it takes me directly to http://forums.wow-europe.com/welcome.html. Do you see my point? No need for searches. No need to remember addresses. Nothing. Type in what you want, and up it comes.Opera does not do this.
All except the one I underlined work just as you described in opera. I don't know what version you tried but this is with opera 10.
"About Opera
Version information
Version 10.01
Build 1844"
I type in "eve wiki", and it googles eve wiki. I type in "wikipedia cat", and it googles wikipedia cat. I type in "age of conan wiki" and it googles age of conan wiki... Doesn't seem to be working at all. And no, I am not using the google search bar, I am using the address bar, but they might as well be one and the same for this.
Would you mind telling me exactly what you are typing, where, and maybe some setting that might turn address finding on?
You are not using it right, for example the string for wikipedia is "w". You can find and edit the strings in preferences under search tab.
You do see how amazingly limited that is, correct? That is only for searching. Not for actually finding a webpage. If a new MMO called... Starsearch comes out, and I have never been to it's website before, and just want to go there, I will be able to type "Starsearch online" and BAM, there is there website. However, there doesn't seem to be a link to their forums on the page. So, I type "Starsearch online forums", and BAM, up comes the forums. However, I need a collection of information, because no one is answering my questions on the forums. So I type in "Starsearch online wiki", and BAM, up comes the wiki.
You see? I don't need to search for anything, and I don't need to know anything to use it. Your solution with Opera still makes you decide which site you are going to search, and then only works if that site has a search feature. And that is assuming that I even wanted to search. No need to search an MMO website. You just want the site.
Hell, lets say I go out, and buy some shrimp. I then get home, and see that they still have the shell on... Son of a bitch... Ok, lets learn how to peel one. Open up Firefox, type "how to peel a shrimp" in the address bar, hit enter, and up pops http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_peel_and_devein_shrimp/. And on about my way I go.
Firefox has the same quick search setup so I know what you mean but I think the behavior he's looking for is typing in the address bar your terms and going directly to a relevant page without implicitly using google.
What's actually happening when you do this though is Firefox does a google search behind the scenes with a couple parameters switched in the search string that makes it follow 'I'm feeling lucky' on google. So what you have to do to replicate that in Opera would be to change the google keyword search or default address bar search to:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s
You may have to leave the %s off, I don't use Opera myself so I'm not sure how they format their quick search strings. There's too many Firefox addons I need that I don't think exist for Opera.. if they do I'd gladly switch, only thing keeping me away from Opera or Chrome are the addons I use.
P.S. if you want to see where this behavior is defined in Firefox type 'about:config' in the address bar and scroll down to 'keyword.url'
You do see how amazingly limited that is, correct? That is only for searching. Not for actually finding a webpage. If a new MMO called... Starsearch comes out, and I have never been to it's website before, and just want to go there, I will be able to type "Starsearch online" and BAM, there is there website. However, there doesn't seem to be a link to their forums on the page. So, I type "Starsearch online forums", and BAM, up comes the forums. However, I need a collection of information, because no one is answering my questions on the forums. So I type in "Starsearch online wiki", and BAM, up comes the wiki.
You see? I don't need to search for anything, and I don't need to know anything to use it. Your solution with Opera still makes you decide which site you are going to search, and then only works if that site has a search feature. And that is assuming that I even wanted to search. No need to search an MMO website. You just want the site.
Hell, lets say I go out, and buy some shrimp. I then get home, and see that they still have the shell on... Son of a bitch... Ok, lets learn how to peel one. Open up Firefox, type "how to peel a shrimp" in the address bar, hit enter, and up pops http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_peel_and_devein_shrimp/. And on about my way I go.
Site searching works with some sites, I'm not actually sure how it works and why doesn't it find some sites. The wiki search works just as you described with "w starsearch online".
It's true opera can't find site with multiple search string, at least I don't know how it's done.
Firefox has the same quick search setup so I know what you mean but I think the behavior he's looking for is typing in the address bar your terms and going directly to a relevant page without implicitly using google.
What's actually happening when you do this though is Firefox does a google search behind the scenes with a couple parameters switched in the search string that makes it follow 'I'm feeling lucky' on google. So what you have to do to replicate that in Opera would be to change the google keyword search or default address bar search to:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s
You may have to leave the %s off, I don't use Opera myself so I'm not sure how they format their quick search strings. There's too many Firefox addons I need that I don't think exist for Opera.. if they do I'd gladly switch, only thing keeping me away from Opera or Chrome are the addons I use.
P.S. if you want to see where this behavior is defined in Firefox type 'about:config' in the address bar and scroll down to 'keyword.url'
Yeah, like I said, I just didn't know how it was done. Noscript is the only addon I miss with opera, everything else it kinda has already.
But don't get me wrong, I'm not just opera use, I use 3 browsers simultaneously for different purposes, opera, ff and chrome iron.
I did not describe a wiki search. That is where you are missing the point. I dont want the post on wikipedia that talk about Starsearch online, I want the Starsearch Online wiki. The wiki with nothing but Starsearch information. Same goes for EVE, Age of Conan, WoW, you name it. I can just type in "EVE wiki" and it will bring me to the fan made wiki with nothing but EVE information. Even better than that... The fan based EVE wiki is very often down due to whatever reason. When this happens, it tosses me to the secondary EVE wiki, which is actually run by EVE online itself.
It is a massive time saver from googling it, then trying to find it.
I did not describe a wiki search. That is where you are missing the point. I dont want the post on wikipedia that talk about Starsearch online, I want the Starsearch Online wiki. The wiki with nothing but Starsearch information. Same goes for EVE, Age of Conan, WoW, you name it. I can just type in "EVE wiki" and it will bring me to the fan made wiki with nothing but EVE information. Even better than that... The fan based EVE wiki is very often down due to whatever reason. When this happens, it tosses me to the secondary EVE wiki, which is actually run by EVE online itself.
It is a massive time saver from googling it, then trying to find it.
Oh I got it kinda wrong. Anyway, I answered to multiple search strings earlier and noquarter explained and gave a solution for it.
Cool I decided to try out the new Opera and I really like it, seems to balance the slickness of Chrome while still giving you all the tools of Firefox.
To change the search bar to work the way you want was pretty easy, click Tools -> Preferences -> Search; Add; Name the search and keyword what you want (I did 'Google direct', keyword 'gd').
Copy and paste this into 'Address:'
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%s
Then check 'Use as default search engine.'
This will make the address bar work just like Firefox's, and take you directly to the most relevant page - and you don't have to use the keyword since you made it the default.
Nice, that actually does work. I am not a big tinkerer, and since Firefox has it right out of the box, I just liked Firefox better. Now if only Opera was accepted to work at my net bank, and some other sites... Kind of sucks that some places are IE and Firefox only.
Thank lazy coders for that. IE is the main reason why site makers don't follow the standards, opera has been always very strict to follow them.
Imo opera has pretty much everything you need out of the box, adblocking need little more knowledge and effort to set up but you can use the same list than with firefox.