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I should make a competing plugin where all it does is block Facebook completely. That'd probably be about as effective.

Already done. Just load the selected list into AdBlock and go.

Adblock Plus (isn't everyone?): I was under the impression (read on slashdot, so YMMGV) that Adblocking on opera was sub-par (still requested the ad, and just hid it, etc... rather than blocking it completely)? Since seeing the ads is the smallest part of why I use ABP, and I'm more interested in blocking the scumbags from tracking me, then this, if true, doesn't do me much good.

Not true. What's blocked is blocked.

Also, one curious thing: Opera has had blocking capabilities under the hood since version 6.02, which was out in April 2002, so that's a whole nine and a half years now. I think Opera was the first web browser that allowed you to block certain URLs natively.

I found that the Adblock list for Opera

works quite well. At home I use AdMuncher, at work I use the list above. Never had any problems with it. It's not as advanced as ABP, but at least it allows you to unblock stuff easily - I could personally never figure out how do to that with ABP, but I could just be stupid.

NoScript: See ABP.

Yeah, that one isn't really there. You can turn off JS entirely for a site - it's all or nothing.

PasswordMaker: This is a biggie at the moment. It's great for keeping a different password for every site without having to store them in "the cloud" or transfer much between machines.

Well... "PasswordMaker solves all of these issues. It is a small, lightweight, free, open-source tool for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, iPhone, Opera, PHP, Windows, OS/X, Linux, Flock, Yahoo! Widgets, Android, Python, and many other platforms & systems."

It's a widget, though.

Or you could use the built-in Opera Link functionality. Auto-sync everything important, including passwords.

DownThemAll would be nice too, but honestly, I use that infrequently enough that I could just fire up ChromeFox when I need it. But the other three are really tying me to this albatross.

Kind of. Open the Links panel (Tools, or Ctrl+Alt+L), filter what you want, select, download. Again, not as advanced as this extension, but it's there.

Yeah, TPLs are good - the first thing I do now on any machine I'm messing with for family is add fanboy's ie9 tpl.
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/ie.html

Enabling Opera Turbo (as long as corp policy, etc. allows such proxy) also makes a big difference, especially on lowest-end machines - because on them it's apparently not only about connection speed, also how much RAM is taken, say, by all the images (recompressed & much smaller with Turbo, it adds up I guess; then you can quickly toggle images on/off in Opera) ...or whatever it is that causes noticeably lower memory usage with Turbo on. Which also places "press here" place-holder where plugin contents are, so there's no need to disable them manually.

This adblock list might also be handy. Yes, Opera has nicely packaged "extensions" now... but using the built-in adblocker (which was there for a long time, only needed to be provided with a list) might end up lighter. It works fine, and if something slips in - there's also content blocker under RMB menu.

Its suitability for older machines is probably one of the reasons for Opera usage share among CIS web population - where people are at the same time quite connected and on slow machines & connections (in the family home of my buddy, the computer is still some early Netburst Celeron with 256 MiB, on dial-up; by no means unique). By far #1 browser in Belarus with half the market, large share in Ukraine and Russia (those two seem to tend towards roughly equal usage shares of all major browsers, an ideal situation IMHO; assures standard websites, not "best viewed in IE and FF" we had for some time, which is only barely better from "best in IE")

"Classic" 9.27 release is even fine on a dual PII 266 that I keep around and boot up sometimes. It actually appears to work better recently (apart from js overload nowadays, better to turn it off) - I guess thanks to websites dropping IE6 & caring more about web standards, which is another focus of Opera for a long time.

Actually it's not quite that easy. Once your browser loads the button, the website and your IP goes into Google's log. From there on it's just a matter of connecting the dots.
However for Firefox with Adblock Plus there is a list to prevent loading of "social" buttons: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/
Note that Google Chrome's ad-blocking only hides content but still loads it.

It's not about hosts, and could give you at least most of what you want. JS can be whitelisted and disabled by domains, that's a bit more than all or nothing.

As for you list (at least when it comes to those with descriptive names) - page zooming and fit-to-width works in Opera also for images, there was some weather widget and also way to put forecasts in the Speed Dial IIRC, downloader has a bit more features than is typical (maybe list of files on a given page and filtering, by chance? Similar with cookies) and sync is built-in - shared across different versions of Opera (Desktop, Mobile, Mini)

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

This is what I have used, it works fine.

Opera had adblocking built in for a long time, it just needed a list - yes, somewhat more basic (much more basic script blocking also there); but even with rare updates of the list I don't remember having to use GUI website element blocker.

Officially released 64 bit version, great session management (per window if one prefers; never corrupts a session file for me, unlike FF), adblocking built in (just need to be provided with a list), even a bit too far with configurability (most people don't know what's there); and for years userjs (can also put items into RMB menu and bookmarklets) & css, plus for a year "Unite" mechanism (usage of which got quickly hijacked for local capabilities), both essentially giving extensions without calling them that (though the naming ceremony was just now, and the mechanism will be complaint with future W3C standard) - that's not head in the game? Especially compared with IE?

(might also throw in 70 million mobile users with triple-digit annual growth percentages, most of them on so called "feature phones"...not waiting for hardware to get "fast enough" in small portion of devices)

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (that functionality is available for a long time; yeah, no autoupdate - but despite very rarely updating the list, it didn't ever cause for me the need to use GUI content blocker; I'm sure you can add your 5 lines, too)

Opera has adblock relying on provided list for a long, long time http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

(no auto update; but I never had to resolve to GUI content blocker, despite only rarely updating the list)

It has adblock built-in, you just have to provide it with a list (that plus GUI element blocker)

...It does have ad block. Built in. Right click, block content. That take too long? http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ That'll block damn near every ad on the internet. And use css to remove the whitespace. I'm amazed at how many ads clutter every web page whenever I use somebody else's computer.

From what I understand (never actually used it myself), Opera's adblock features are pretty weak compared to Firefox add-ons like adblock plus.

You understand incorrectly. Opera's adblocking is just as capable as AdBlock+. Just use a good block list such as the one maintained by Fanboy.

I'll bite.
NoScript: disable scripting and enable it selectively using the F12 "site preferences" shortcut.
AdBlockPlus: You can get various urlfilter.ini if you really want to. I really dont need this, just block the most annoying ones with right-click:block_content. Some sites need the "normal" advertising, and once you block the top-10, you don't have much to complain about. Anyway, I will give you that point.
Flashblock: Here. Myself I just "enable plugins" (F12 again) on sites I want. *And* you can block the flash content with the normal "block content" too.
Firebug: Meh. Have you worked with dragon fly?
RefControl: Hmpf. F12, disable "send referrer information". Maybe it is just me, but I never needed to spoof referrers.

And yes, I use every one of these extensions on firefox, because it is not there as default. And some more. In a *memory-limited VM* just so it does not goes haywire and swaps the hell out of my current apps to oblivion. Lucky me.

Of course Opera blocks elements, doesn't download them...

Adblocker is built-in, you just have to provide it with a list (btw, one buddy of mine who used FF for a long time and then switched to Opera says the above list + whitespace removal work somewhat better than what he was used to). If, somehow, something would be able to come through (I don't remember that happening...) - there's also GUI element blocker (RMB, "Block content")

And all this time some browsers have built-in and light adblock, one which just has to be provided with a list; plus GUI element blocker if something goes through.

Opera has adblocker built-in, you just have to provide it with a list (updated of course; plus there's also a GUI way of blocking elements if something comes through...)

There's no NoScript, that i'm aware of.

But there is Adblock for Iron (Iron=Chrome without Google-spyware)
http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/iron/adblock.ini

Here's a few entries that i add,
google.com/favicon.ico
video.google.com/img/logo
images.google.com/intl/
images.google.com/images/isr_g.p
images.google.com/images/nav_logo
www.google.com/logos/
www.google.com/images/isr_g.p
www.google.com/images/nav_logo
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.p /ads
banner
intellitxt
doubleclick .experts-exchange.
s.ytimg.com/yt/img/master-vfl
s.ytimg.com/yt/img/no_videos_140-vfl
rapidshare.com/img2/dl_
rapidshare.com/img2/rslogo
rapidshare.com/img2/download_file

It's QT native. You can use Fanboy's list. You can use greasemonkey scripts.

I'm sorry, but you just don't know what other browsers offer.

Since you mentioned Opera with which I'm familiar and few extensions "specifically":
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ + built in GUI element blocker + js black & whitelisting are all there for a long time

Similarly with...no, not all by a long shot, but...many lists of functionalities people list as "must have" and obviously available only in FF...

So then what is a good browser? I do value privacy so I don't use Chrome (I figure google can have either my search history or web browsing history but not both, and adblock for Chrome really sucks). I hate ads so I don't use Opera (the adblock solution also sucks). I don't care about bloat, but I do care about speed, and firefox is the slowest of the main browsers I use (I do not use IE8). The four things I care about are security, ad-blocking, speed, and privacy. It looks like this is another case of "choose 3 out of 4".

1. Take off the tin foil hat and spend 5 seconds disabling whatever it is that offends you in the clearly labeled and displayed Privacy settings in Chrome.
2. Download a good hosts adblocking file.
3. Download a good extension that'll hide the blocked elements and text ads.
4. Enjoy using a blazingly fast and responsive, free browser.

Or if you're still paranoid that Google is using Chrome to hijack your life, you could even do this:
1. Download Opera.
2. Use this guy's stuff.

clues for the clueless

1- don't write wall of texts detailing how out of it you are
2- use a HOSTS file, solves 90% of problems. Good one here: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
3- use any browser that can block popups/flash/jscript. I personally use Opera.

Fanboy's list works great.

I second this motion.

Fanboy's list works great.

Adding to other answers: adblock is built-in, using basically the same list...
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
(and from what my buddy who used FF for a long time says, "empty field hider" works slightly better in Opera)
Plus you can add manually through GUI element blocker whatever comes through...but that doesn't happen to me, so it's probably quite rare...

And no, not everybody will have an arbitrary different list of extensions. Yes, there are some specialized ones used by sizable number of people. But majority (90+ % from what I see...) use only a few common extensions, with their functionality built into Opera for a long time.

Or better still use Opera's content blocker, whilst it doesn't autoupdate, it's far more comprehensive in what and how it blocks...

Use a decent adblock list like this one:

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

Opera has those features. You can have cookies/scripts/plugins turned off and enabling them in site preferences (or toggle them gobally on/off - it takes effect only on the side you're loading/browsing anyway). Adblock: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (yeah, it's also built-in, that's just a list)

Well, there's this one little browser that is both helluva snappy and has lots of features, Opera ;p (and yes, it has adblock built-in, no extension needed...you just provide it with a list http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ )

Opera has had the ability to block ads and other content for as long as I can remember, long before Firefox itself even existed. All that is required is for one to install a simple .ini file into Opera's user profile directory. The file must be updated manually, but it is simple enough to write a script to automatically download the new file every so often. It may not be as powerful or user-friendly as AdBlock Plus, but it works, and works well.

Oh yes, there are equivalents. Also, Opera has NoScript built in, in the form of site specific settings.

You would really like the responsiveness of Opera in many-tabs scenario.

If you do check it out, remember to turn on "Window" menu in options (lists all tabs in current window, and is actually usable - you don't have to scroll through it like in FF, no matter how many tabs), "hold down right mouse button and move scroll" (hard to explain...but its great), and list of all tabs (in all windows) in sidebar (with search)

And yes, Opera has Adblock built-in, you just have to provide it with a list... http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

Mehhh...in every thread about Opera those misconceptions.

Adblock - http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ that's basically the same list that Adblock addon uses. It certainly blocks everything just as well. And the functionality itself is built in, no messing around with plugins. According to my buddy who moved from FF to Opera, style file works slightly better at hiding empty spots. And, if something isn't blocked, you have a nice way of blocking this and similar elements through Opera UI.

GreaseMonkey - you do understand Opera pioneered also this functionality, right? Check UserJS (it is capable of running many GreaseMonkey scripts btw)

FxIF - built in. Didn't it ever occured to you to just right click on the frakking image and bring up properties?

del.icio.us, Twitter - something wrong with bookmarklets placed within one click, on navigation bar?

I guess the main problem of Opera is that people assume, because of beeing used to other apps, that there's now way it can pack so much in so little executable, so properly/speedy implemented.

I assume you refer to this: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

(mods: no need to mod up here I've already posted this link in a post above)

I use this: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

It took one minute to copy the file, and I didn't see any ad since then.

I don't know about Firefox users but with Opera's adblock I get forwaded to an "adsblocked.html" when I try and access zShare:
http://zshare.net/

Oh for reference I'm using Fanboy's Opera Adblock List, which you can find here:
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

All built in. Adblock has to be, as usual, provided with a list: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (according to my buddy who moved FF->Opera, works just as well for blocking, slightly better for hiding empty spots)

I'm almost used to the way how those facts are ignored (still, I don't get that implied thing in the summary that FF was on top...)

There's an adult blocklist for AdBlock here. I use it along with EasyList and EasyPrivacy.

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

Nice list & style, works just as good as FF Adblock for blocking, somewhat better for hiding empty spaces.

I'll throw this in before some Firefox fanboy gets in with the usual "but in Opera it's only manual"...

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

Works at least as good as AdBlock + any proper list, light (no extension needed after all/uses build-in Opera features) and leaves almost no empty spaces.

Opera has content blocking, and there's also stuff like this

Why are you people so ignorant? Opera has a urlfilter.ini file which is located in your profile dir (most usually ~/.opera on GNU/Linux) which you can edit (and supports wildcards of course) by yourself or you can download a already made one (and constantly updated one too) here and it also includes an element hider which removes the whitespace from the blocked ads (on the same page). Other filters exist too.

If you just Googled "opera adblock" you'd find lots of results. Instead many people here and on Digg too are too ignorant to check the fact that Opera indeed has an adblock and it can be configured.

Which is what I thought too, much to my chagrin as although I like firefox, I'd rather have been using opera but couldn't force myself to because of all the ads! Then I found this, and all my problems went away... http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

I don't see adds either.

Download the url filter:
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

and also get the CSS "element hide" file.

It's not AdBlock, but I don't see advertisements anymore. 5 minutes is a small price to pay :-)

*cough* http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/

Have fun switching. All your issues, solved:
Logins: The dialog isn't blocking the page load, so just wait two seconds before clicking any of it's buttons and see if you entered the correct info.
Search: Ctrl+F opens a dialog for non-incremental searching, great for huge documents on old computers. . or / open a small search prompt at the bottom of the page, for incremental search. , opens the same prompt, searching for links.
NoScript: Press F12, check or uncheck "Enable JavaScript" to whatever suits your situation. Rinse and repeat for animated gifs, Java, Flash ("Plug-Ins") or sound.
Adblock list: Opera Software, ASA is a business, so them providing (and even worse: activating) an adblocking list with their browser would probably get them into deep shit with lots of advertisers. Lawsuit-type shit. There are unofficial lists, though ;)

Have fun switching. All your issues, solved:
Logins: The dialog isn't blocking the page load, so just wait two seconds before clicking any of it's buttons and see if you entered the correct info.
Search: Ctrl+F opens a dialog for non-incremental searching, great for huge documents on old computers. . or / open a small search prompt at the bottom of the page, for incremental search. , opens the same prompt, searching for links.
NoScript: Press F12, check or uncheck "Enable JavaScript" to whatever suits your situation. Rinse and repeat for animated gifs, Java, Flash ("Plug-Ins") or sound.
Adblock list: Opera Software, ASA is a business, so them providing (and even worse: activating) an adblocking list with their browser would probably get them into deep shit with lots of advertisers. Lawsuit-type shit. There are unofficial lists, though ;)

Try this for Opera Adblock: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

and as soon as they start the adservices, I'll block them :)