Internet Browser thread (not bowser!)

[MickMcGeough]

Firefox 4 is awesome. It's officially replaced Chrome as my browser of choice.

[Hanni]

Bump. So after Firefox decided to update constantly making the google toolbar useless I decided to give Opera a try. So far I'm liking it, as with anything there is a bit of frustration trying to find and customize everything since I don't where anything is yet. I've managed to find and place my Home and Bookmarks buttons where I want them. Also added a cool little Gmail button which is awesome.

So my question for Opera users, what else should get? I used to use AdBlock and Ghostery on Firefox, anything similar for Opera? I'm also really disappointed that RSS feeds can't be added to the toolbar anywhere, I really miss that feature from Firefox. Are there any addons for Opera that will do something similar? I tried a couple RSS readers last night but they were separate widgets I wasn't a fan of, if I want a separate widget I can just add one to Rainmeter on my desktop.

Any other suggestions?

[Hanni]

Ignore the above, found everything other than an RSS reader that I like, any suggestions for RSS on Opera?

[FanIn80]

I've been all over the place lately. I was a Firefox guy for years, then I went to Safari with my first Mac and used that for a couple years before switching back to Firefox. I then went to Chrome and used that for about a year and then tried switching back to Firefox for a third time. That lasted roughly a week, before finally settling on Safari again.

I find that Chrome appears to be lightweight, while actually being incredibly resource-heavy. Firefox appears clunky and slow, even though it's actually pretty fast, and Safari is quite robust, in spite of appearing to be very simplistic.

In the end, the convenience of having all my bookmarks automatically appearing on all my devices via iCloud won me over. The only thing I had to do was install the Omnibar extension, to convert the Safari addressbar into something closer to what Google uses in Chrome.

[FlamesPuck12]

Originally Posted by Hanni

Ignore the above, found everything other than an RSS reader that I like, any suggestions for RSS on Opera?

Have you tried the built in RSS reader?

[Hanni]

Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12

Have you tried the built in RSS reader?

Yes, I would really prefer a style to Firefox where the feeds show up on the toolbar rather than having to open panels. Maybe I'll just have to live with it. Considering all the awesome buttons you can add to Opera I'm kind of surprised this isn't available.