Building a Better Mozilla With Plugins

Ant writes "Wired has a story on how to improve Mozilla and Firefox web browsers with various plugins/extensions (XPI installations). It lists some of the extensions that have been rated highly by Mozilla users like BugMeNot. One of them not listed and my favorite is PrefBar."

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And this is why I still have to use Opera

[loomis]

I have done the Firefox dance since the beginning--installing many builds and major releases and plugins, using these for awhile, growing frustrated, and then uninstalling and reverting back to Opera.

Consistently I find myself bewildered at the lack of a single browser (tab mode) in Firefox. And to add insult to injury, there is always this running battle in progress about the Tab Prowser extension. In fact, with 0.9 of Firefox, the Tab Browser extension wasn't even available from the extensions page, even though it worked fine for me. It just seemed like Firefox developers tried to censor the plugin. Very strange.

Why the Firefox developers refuse to make a functional, option-laden one-window tab-based option available without a plugin is beyond me. For now, I'll keep on using Opera.

Loomis