I just updated my Opera to 9.2 and it has this very kool speed dial-feature which replaces the blank screen (that comes up when you open new window/tab) with those thumbnails from few different shortcut screenshots

That got me wondering what all addons/widgets/etc do people use and what kind of features would you like to see some day? Maybe to be able to watch LFS races in web browser

My Firefox has Adblock, NoScript, DownThemAll, DownloadHelper (for YouTube videos), that thing where you get a preview of a site when you mouseover the link- and a few extra sites in the search bar.

Boring and functional, yes. But it makes MySpace usable when I must look at someone's latest CSS travesty.

I've got really reliant on mouse gestures now. I don't use them for anything fancy, just refresh, opening new windows, history navigation, text size changing, that sort of thing. It annoys me when I try to use them in an IE window and they don't do anything...

9.2 is out? Meh, will upgrade then
Mouse gestures are thingys I cannot live without - they're just a part of me now. I bought a mouse with back/forward-buttons but I'm never using them as it takes more time for the mouse software to recognice the buttonpress and to do the action than it would when I simply put my right button down and move the mouse to the left.

Mouse gestures are very useful. I'd really like to see mouse gestures to work in windows in all programs where you need to go forwards/backwards, like file browsers.

I also bought a new mouse with those extra buttons but I only use one of them to undo (open "accidentally" closed tabs, for example). I would go crazy if I had to use IE

I'm using standard Firefox.

I'm not into heavy, demanding or hardcore browsing as teh intertubes just piss me off the more I have to spend time here.

Opera is my choice too, I use Pandara radio widget it rocks

I'll have to read into mouse gestures but I almost everything gets opened in a tab anyway, so there's nothing to go back to. In something like explorer, I always navigate via the tree view (and often using keyboard), so never use back or forward buttons, rarely even press the up button either.

Tabbed browsing is very useful I've found. Keeps the clutter off my user bar so i can see all the krud i keep running in the background.. like msn and photoshop and the like.

Tabbed browsing + Adblock, these two features has made major change to usability, I can browse net like it was intended to before silly marketing jumped in and I can browse boards with multitasking manner very quickly and easily.

I don't use lot of different addons as I like my browser small and light, also eye candy has 0 value to me.

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I'll have to read into mouse gestures but I almost everything gets opened in a tab anyway, so there's nothing to go back to.

Ah, but you're missing out on communicating in Jedi style with web servers. Waving your hand and telling Google "These are not the results I am looking for".

I use adblock and opera's feature to kill images on contact to a certain extent, I dont mind 'normal' ads because I might see somethin I want/like, so I wouldnt go all out and kill all ads, just flop ups

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Ah, but you're missing out on communicating in Jedi style with web servers. Waving your hand and telling Google "These are not the results I am looking for".

You can wave at hyper speed if you do some search lore's Invalueable site that, endless reading/learning about how the whole internets works

E: Damn! double post , sorry this new forum setup is killin me lol the irony

im more of a pedestrian guy so i use vanilla ie6 ... speaking of which is there any browser or plugin that supports a quicker way of navigating through a whole bunch of links than pressing tab ?

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I've got really reliant on mouse gestures now. I don't use them for anything fancy, just refresh, opening new windows, history navigation, text size changing, that sort of thing. It annoys me when I try to use them in an IE window and they don't do anything...

http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

edit:
ah i just remembered there is one feature i love about ie and that is a properly functional history

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im more of a pedestrian guy so i use vanilla ie6 ... speaking of which is there any browser or plugin that supports a quicker way of navigating through a whole bunch of links than pressing tab ?



http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

Opera has got a 'link' feature that displays all links to and from the site you are at is that what you mean?

E: shotglass, have you ever looked at the ie add-ons? When I discovered what they where I was frightened to what I found! all that crap guiding me, telling me what todo as I go places windoze crap.

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You can wave at hyper speed if you do some search lore's Invalueable site that, endless reading/learning about how the whole internets works

Right. The home page is a bag of shit. Given their apparent omnipotence, do you it would be considered bad form to fire them off a quick email to let them know how to make a useful website?

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Right. The home page is a bag of shit. Given their apparent omnipotence, do you it would be considered bad form to fire them off a quick email to let them know how to make a useful website?

I would not if I where you, honestly if you read a bit about what fravia's is about you'll understand the mentality behind the sites appearance , but hey! who am I to tell you what todo e-mail away.

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Opera has got a 'link' feature that displays all links to and from the site you are at is that what you mean?

i mean more something like a 2d access to links and editboxes

like say youre at google and want to go to the first result you got
normally youd spend about 5 minutes worth of pressing tab watching your cursor go through a whole bunch of links - which effectively makes any kind of keyboard only navigation impossible
what i would like is something along the lines of moving the cursor with my cursor keys on the 2d plane that the website is rather than the 1d list of links and boxes

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E: shotglass, have you ever looked at the ie add-ons? When I discovered what they where I was frightened to what I found! all that crap guiding me, telling me what todo as I go places windoze crap.

im not sure what you mean but personally i do everything i can to avoid installing google toolbar and the like
the only broser extention i use is flashgets hook into the right click menu

Adblock Plus - Gets rid of all ads, with subscriptions to all official lists
AutoHideStatusBar- Hides the StatusBar when nothing's loading or I'm not hovering over a link.
BBcode- Quick little helper for posting in forums without having to learn all tag by hand
Chromedit - Brings up a nice little editor for editing how the browser looks, how webpages behave etc. using Firefox built-in CSS-thingie.(see below)
CustomizeGoogle - Adds plenty nice tweaks to google, making it much easier to use
FEBE - Backup-utillity for Firefox, i run this maybe once a month. Good to have when re-installing Firefox
Flashgot - "DOwnload manager"-manager. Supports all and any flavor of download manager.
IETab - Switches to/brings up a tab rinning the IE-engine, for those web-pages that are stuck in the 90's
MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay - Gets rid if the delay when installing Extensions.
Nightly Tester Tools - Disables the compatibility-check when installing extensions in versions of Firefox the extension was never meant for.
Norwegian Dictionary - Obvious really :P
ReloadEvery - Reloads pages at a set interval.
Restart Firefox - Adds a menu-item under file that restarts Firefox.
Tiny Menu - Compacts the 'File view...' into one menu-item and puts them all as sub-menus.
Titlebar Tweaks. Gets rid of the "Mozilla Firefox"-tagline in the titlebar.

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i mean more something like a 2d access to links and editboxes

like say youre at google and want to go to the first result you got
normally youd spend about 5 minutes worth of pressing tab watching your cursor go through a whole bunch of links - which effectively makes any kind of keyboard only navigation impossible
what i would like is something along the lines of moving the cursor with my cursor keys on the 2d plane that the website is rather than the 1d list of links and boxes



im not sure what you mean but personally i do everything i can to avoid installing google toolbar and the like
the only broser extention i use is flashgets hook into the right click menu

The 1d list of links I think I know what you mean, you would like to strip all links down to bare text for easy keyboard navigation?

In the ie window goto tools/manage addons, there is a list of currentley loaded activex crap the iexplorer uses to send you where IT wants you to go, in the recentley used tab is a list of zctivex controls that will latch onto you the next time you visit a site that uses them, it could place ads/pop-ups or even re-direct you tword a site you do not want to go

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The 1d list of links I think I know what you mean, you would like to strip all links down to bare text for easy keyboard navigation?

it already does that
the problem is the only way to navigate through them is via tab and tab navigates through them exactly the way they appear in the source file
for sites with lots of links and especially for sites with lots of horizntally placed links like google its absolutely useless if you just want to go to the link a bit further down

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In the ie window goto tools/manage addons, there is a list of currentley loaded activex crap the iexplorer uses to send you where IT wants you to go, in the recentley used tab is a list of zctivex controls that will latch onto you the next time you visit a site that uses them, it could place ads/pop-ups or even re-direct you tword a site you do not want to go

so ? so far the only time my ie ever did anything it shouldnt have was because of my own stupidity

the last virus i had was today (before that it was parity boot back in p1 days iirc) and i suspect firefox is responsible for that one

"Search keywords". No idea how popular this feature even is, but it's in Firefox by default. On some search box -> right mouse click and "add search keyword". For example when I write "tube funny" to the address bar in Firefox, it automatically searches for videos called "funny" from youtube or "w shit", it searches "shit" from wikipedia. At least for me a real time saver. Of course the keyword can be anything you like.

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I would not if I where you, honestly if you read a bit about what fravia's is about you'll understand the mentality behind the sites appearance ,

Ah, so it's deliberately shit. I see. What a great idea.

As for features built into Firefox... I think the most useful are:

-Tabbed Browsing
-"View Image" and other "location" links to quickly copy things to the clipboard. IE never had these things, and you had to open the dumb Properties window all the time.
-The quick search thing in the actual address bar. I use this all the time, and love how it gets Google's 1st/Best result. I usually type in movie titles in there, like "The Simpsons imdb" to see information on IMDB.
-The bookmark toolbar, and how you can sort them into sub-menus. I never use my bookmark menu at the top.

As for features I had to install with extensions, I use:

-Tabmix Plus (great for giving more power to tabs and how you use them)
-Adblock Plus
-Dictionary.com search field
-Pearl Crescent Page Saver (to take screenshots of things in my browser -- best part is, it can take a full screenshot of sites that are even larger than your screen, and comes out as one big picture)
-DownThemAll (for crazy downloading of files in directories (kind of like wget))
-Web Developer Tools. Its a real handy tool that can hide/show as a 3rd toolbar with a little toggle button. I mostly use the Ruler function to measure sites, and the live CSS tool to change sites I am designing.

That's about it.

Tabbed browsing probably, the rest are all addons unfortunately.

FireBug
FireFTP
FireGPG
Live HTTP Headers
Long Titles
Mouse Gestures (Couldn't live without them)
Web Developer