Today i move from Opera to Firefox (Preview Release). Having the usability of Firefox plus the ability to map my own keyboard shortcuts, add an 'x' to tabs to close them plus many many more extensions just make sense.

The only feature of Opera's I'm missing is searching google from the location bar by prepending a 'g' in front of the search terms, and going to the next page by hitting the space bar when at the end of the page, like in Google. Still, I'm confident of adding these changes to Firefox as extensions. That's how way cool Firefox is.

From what I see so far, ScreenReader can also be developed as a Firefox extension. Cool, or what? As a bonus, my WordPress edit form renders properly in Firefox, where it was a little screwy in Opera. Goodbye Opera…

Update 36 hours later:
Searching via the location bar is done via what Firefox calls Quick Searches, and its way cooler than Opera, coz any bookmark can be searched that way. I don't even know why people bother with the search bar with this killer feature. Of course, it requires a little knowledge about how HTTP forms work. Now the only thing I'm missing from Opera is the spacebar-to-next-page feature in Google.

I've installed Adblock and suitably impressed. I no longer use Proxomitron. The only thing Adblock doesn't do is match (and remove) text patterns like Google's Sponsored Links.

I've also found that pressing Ctrl whilst left-clicking a hyperlink opens the website in a background tab/window. Useful for Google searching.

My current list of extensions (Firefox 1.0.5 release):
Scrollbar Anywhere http://perso.wanadoo.fr/marc.boullet/ext/extensions-en.html
SessionSaver http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=166
QuickTabPrefMode http://jedbrown.net/mozilla/extensions/#QuickTabPrefToggle
ImagesShowHide http://imageshowhide.mozdev.org/
Adblock http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Tab X http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/clav/#tabx
Keyconfig http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=72994
Download statusbar http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
Tab clicking options
Super Drag and Go
Web Developer Extension
Download Status bar

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