Are you missing Firefox extensions in Opera? Check this list.

Are you missing Firefox extensions in Opera? Check this list.

I made this list for Firefox lovers who are saying Opera is missing Firefox extensions. Guys, you are wrong. This is based on most popular (first 12 pages from mozilla.org) Firefox extensions. As you can see you have almost everything is out of the box in Opera. Hope this will be useful for people who want to switch from Firefox but afraid they will miss their extensions.


FlashGot/DownThemAll -> (out of the box) Links Panel (not all features)
NoScript-> (out of the box) Site Preferences
Adblock/Adblock Plus -> (out of the box) Block content
FasterFox -> (out of the box) Preferences, opera:config ; prefeching: http://userjs.org/scripts/browser/enhancements/page-prefetcher
IETab/IE View -> only "Open in IE" button : http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons#webdev
VideoDownloader -> Not available, just use http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
Tab Mix Plus/superT -> out of the box
Forecastfox/1-ClickWeather -> touchtheSky widget : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/3903
StumbleUpon -> ???
PDF Download -> Not available (just decide before clicking link!)
Adblock Filterset.G Updater -> Not available
Torrent Search Bar -> bittorrent.com search out of the box ; other easy to add with Create search
Web Developer -> Web Developer Toolbar & Menu for Opera : http://operawiki.info/WebDevToolbar
FootieFox -> some widget?
FireFTP -> Not available
Gmail Notifier/Gmail Manager/Yahoo! Mail Notifier/EMail_Notifier Toolbar -> you can configure you account in Opera's mail client to get notifications
Wizz RSS News Reader/Sage/NewsFox/Hermes News Reader -> (out of the box) Newsfeeds tab (probably not all features)
MediaPlayerConnectivity -> Not available
Mouse Gestures/All-in-One Gestures -> out of the box
Download Statusbar -> (out of the box) Transfers panel icon (shows remaining download time)
Answers -> out of the box
Image Zoom -> out of the box (probably not all feautures) ; try also: http://userjs.org/scripts/browser/enhancements/autosizer
Colorful Tabs -> useless?
Tabbrowser Preferences -> (out of the box) Tabs Preferences
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer/Google Browser Sync -> oSync : http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=104071
FoxyTunes -> useless
CustomizeGoogle -> Not available? (possible with User JavaScript) ; only: http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/google-suggest
Gmail Space -> just use GMail Drive : http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
ReminderFox -> Not available
SessionSaver/Session Manager ->out of the box
Flashblock -> out of the box Site preferences/Content Block
FoxLingo -> (out of the box) only translate selected text/ menu item for translating whole websites possible to add by Create Serch and editing menu config file
All-In-One Sidebar -> out of the box
Performancing -> Not available
MinimizeToTray -> (out of the box) Ctrl+H
Crash Recovery -> out of the box
FireFoxMenuButtons -> http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons / http://nontroppo.org/tools/buttonmaker/
del.icio.us -> only buttons: http://erlang.no/?p=14
SearchPluginHacks -> out of the box
UnPlug/Download Embedded/Amazing Media Browser -> Not available
Update Notifier -> Firefox specific
FireBug -> some features out of the box, some missing
Html Validator -> (out of the box) Ctrl+Alt+V
Cooliris Previews -> Not available
JavaScript Debugger -> Not available
Bookmark Duplicate Detector -> Not available ( try star to avoid dublicates : http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=123713 ) ; try also: http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm
SwitchProxy Tool/FoxyProxy -> Not available
Torbutton -> f12 > enalble proxy servers
ScrapBook -> (out of the box) only notes
ShowIP -> IP Address widget: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4095
Greasemonkey -> (out of the box) User JavaScript
Download Manager Tweak -> (out of the box) Transfers Tab, Transfers Panel
Tab X -> out of the box
ColorZilla -> Color Picker widget: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4138
LinkedIn Companion for Firefox -> useless?
Text Complete -> (out of the box) Wand
GooglePreview -> Not available? (possible with user JavaScript)
Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics -> just use connection speed tester eg. http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Leak Monitor -> LOL, sorry no memory leaking extensions in opera, so nothing to monitor
FoxGame -> Not available
Duplicate Tab -> (out of the box) Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N or Down-Up mouse gesture
Advanced Dork -> Not available
ReloadEvery -> out of the box
ChatZilla -> (out of the box) Chat
Firefox Extension Backup Extension -> Firefox specific
Snapper/Screen grab -> Not available?
Morning Coffee -> Not available
AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox -> (out of the box) Wand (very limited )
RSS Ticker -> Not available
Googlepedia -> User JavaScript: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=141503
gTranslate -> out of the box
JSView -> Not available
MR Tech Local Install -> Firefox specific
Restart Firefox -> Not available but Firefox specific (notice that Opera switch skins without restarting)
LastTab -> out of the box
smart-cursor -> Not available
Extended Statusbar -> out of the box
PayPal Send Money -> Not available
Dictionary Tooltip -> Not available
GoogleTabs -> (out of the box) search panel
Stealther -> not available
Print/Print Preview -> useless?
View Source Chart -> not available
Save Image in Folder -> not available
Custom Buttons -> http://nontroppo.org/tools/buttonmaker/
CookieSafe -> (out of the box) Site Preferences
Cert Viewer Plus -> out of the box?
Reveal -> not Available
BetterSearch -> not Available (possible with User JavaScript)
Auto Copy -> not Available
Viamatic -> (out of the box) Tabs > Arrange > Tile
FoxClocks -> (out of the box) only local time clock ; probably some widget soon
MeasureIt -> ?
bbs2chreader -> ???
Gmail Skins -> not available (probably possible with User JavaScript)
CSSViewer -> not available
Orkut Scrap Helper -> not available
SMS Send -> some external app?
Tab Clicking Options -> not available?
Mozilla Calendar -> not available
Tamper Data -> try: http://web-sniffer.net/
Search Engine Ordering -> http://opera-info.xorg.pl/en/ (or editing search.ini manualy)
QuickZoom-> out of the box
Radio Nederland -> not available
SlimSearch -> out of the box
Nuke Anything Enhanced -> ?
Googlebar Lite -> out of the box
Go to WindizUpdate -> just go to damn page : http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/
Add Bookmark Here -> out of the box
Google Calendar Notifier -> gCalendar widget: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4208
infoRSS -> not available
Firefox Showcase -> page tumbnails
Add N Edit Cookies -> ?
DictionarySearch -> out of the box
Tiny Menu -> http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons#menu


edit: thanks, i have corrected some mistakes and updated list a bit with your suggestions. added few more so now it's 20 first pages from https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?app=firefox&appfilter=1&sort=downloads&perpage=10 .

Originally posted by dodd:

PDF Download
VideoDownloader
MediaPlayerConnectivity
GooglePreview

what do these do ? Add only bloat ?

Originally posted by dodd:

Adblock Filterset.G Updater

Excuse for being lazy ! Download the list manually !

Originally posted by dodd:

FireFTP

Opera FTP support sucks, and it'll continue to suck for a long time. Yeap ! It's a internet suite and it barely downloads files through ftp.

Originally posted by dodd:

CustomizeGoogle

The only decent functionality that script has is available here
http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/google-suggest

Originally posted by dodd:

MinimizeToTray

Ctrl+H, not paste

Originally posted by dodd:

Html Validator

Ctrl+Alt+V... not very friendly though:ko:

Originally posted by dodd:

JavaScript Debugger

Currently under development:up:

Originally posted by dodd:

Googlepedia

... useless crap.

Originally posted by dodd:

Print/Print Preview

File menu ?

Dodd, can you make this into a separate web page and maintain it? Maybe put into the Opera Wiki so everyone can maintain it. Many of the "not available" items on your list are available in some form or other. A well maintained extension equivalency list would really help people who are trying to move from FF...

>Bela<

(in a nicely formatted table, with live links to things that need links; draggable Opera buttons for things that can be done that way; opera:config links for those things; doc links for things that need explanation...)

Hi,
as far as I know the "Block content" of Opera cannot block iframes and scripts. thats why when you block an ad in opera the space it would use in the page still exists and is simply blank. iframes, scripts and such still load, only the pictures dissapear.
So Ad Block for FF is better imho.

ShowIP -> Not available

There's an IP widget :

http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4095

Hi Dodd

You seem to be the expert I need ------~~~~~~~!!!!!!

Just installed opera9 and have no clue how to import the bookmarks from firefox.
Would you know where they are hidden, in which file, under what name??

Any suggestion is very much appreciated

Kindly
Aniccia

aniccia, on Windows XP Firefox store bookmarks in file: c:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\some_letters.default\bookmarks.html . Notice that Application Data folder may be invisible until you check Show hidden files option in Folder Settings.
You should be able to import it with File>Import Export> Import Netscape/Firefox bookmarks... .

COOL - thanks dodd

Excellent list there. I'd recommend separating out the "not available" items into a different list for ease of use (i.e. have one list of extensions you -can- do in opera, and one you can't).

I missed:
dom inspector (quick way to change some small forum reply box)
download status bar (it shows speed, %, time, and size; the out-of-the-box opera way isn't quite as useful)
foxyvoice (n/a to fx1.5 anymore; yes opera has voice but why not use windows sapi?)
menu editor (can probably be done with ini files, well would be better if there's a gui)
tab clicking option (the ability to middle click bar to undo close tab; also useful when I don't have usb mouse and need to use the touchpad)

Can the list be ordered alphabetically, and separate out the n/a ones as suggested? That would be of great help!

I think a very interesting page for this compare is the FirefoxOpera - blog

Getting Firefox to look, function and behave like Opera through various extensions and themes...

Although the blog doesn't seem to be updated any more it gives some impression about what Opera can do without extensions and some things Firefox still isn't able to do, even with extensions.

Originally posted by iimess:

download status bar (it shows speed, %, time, and size; the out-of-the-box opera way isn't quite as useful)

Suppose you are speaking of Progress bar while page loads (as transfer status is already with default setting showing more information).
Try to customise your toolbars (ie Tools-Appearance-Toolbar) and select "Pop-up-at-bottom" for the Progress bar. Out of the box Opera will compare with the even more powerful Firefox extension

Originally posted by addons.mozilla.org:

Extended Statusbar adds an Opera-like statusbar to Firefox that shows:
-number of loaded images
-bytes downloaded
-average download speed
-load time
-percentage of the page loaded

Originally posted by iimess:

foxyvoice (n/a to fx1.5 anymore; yes opera has voice but why not use windows sapi?)

I heard IBM voice is much better. And Opera is not only available for Windows.

You seem to know alot about FF extensions. I used the Cookie Culler in FF and was wondering if Opera 9 has a way to keep the cookies I want and delete the others on exit. Thanks

@tbird03: I know only some of the extensions and rarely use them. It's a pain in the ass to go through the lot of pages with maybe interesting extensions. And curiousity and interest is actually the reason why I looked for Firefox extensions at all. Opera fulfills my needs much better. There are only few extensions I use for webdesign-testing and webpage analysis parallel to the capabilities of Opera.

But I know a bit about how to use Google and I know something about Opera.
You can manage bookmarks in Opera (ie with Tools - Advanced - Cookies) and delete them one by one. It's not that slow, but of course it is not as comfortable as the description of Cookie Culler.

But I think you do not really want to manually delete cookies. This could be done easier with out of the box Opera9 and I don't know whether there is an Firefox extension at all to do it similar easy.
Just use the site specific preferences of Opera9:
1) the general setting for cookies is off or "delete at shutdown" (more webpages will work at once)
2) for those pages you permanently want to keep the cookies just right click on the page - Edit site preferences - Cookies - and take the setting you prefer

Thank you ResearchWizard I agree with you about having to go through all the pages to find an extension. I use Opera and am really happy with it. It works much faster for me. I am having problems with one site I visit but will make a new thread about that. I am figuring out how to use the edit site preference tool. I was just wanting to delete the cookies that I didn't want to keep when exiting Opera. Thanks again.

Originally posted by ResearchWizard:

Originally posted by iimess:

download status bar (it shows speed, %, time, and size; the out-of-the-box opera way isn't quite as useful)

Suppose you are speaking of Progress bar while page loads (as transfer status is already with default setting showing more information).
Try to customise your toolbars (ie Tools-Appearance-Toolbar) and select "Pop-up-at-bottom" for the Progress bar. Out of the box Opera will compare with the even more powerful Firefox extension

Originally posted by addons.mozilla.org:

Extended Statusbar adds an Opera-like statusbar to Firefox that shows:
-number of loaded images
-bytes downloaded
-average download speed
-load time
-percentage of the page loaded

Thanks for your help. I was referring to the download statusbar extension that shows the transfer status of my downloads, not pages.
I like it because of its space-saving way of presenting status.

Originally posted by iimess:

foxyvoice (n/a to fx1.5 anymore; yes opera has voice but why not use windows sapi?)

I heard IBM voice is much better. And Opera is not only available for Windows.

[/quote]

Yes the opera voice is far better than the default microsoft sam, but I got an even better one from my company, if only opera uses the windows sapi.
I was hoping that opera can be built with some platform-specific features...

Originally posted by dodd:

CustomizeGoogle

The only decent functionality that script has is available here
http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/google-suggest

Here's a link to Google-Suggest which is exactly the same as CustomizeGoogle in FF as far as the "find as you type" goes.

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Great list: Definetly something people looking to switch to or from Opera can make use of.

Videodownloader is something that lets you download streaming video content to your hard drive. Even though it doesn't always work its far from bloat if you constantly deal with streaming videos. [maybe you are a cspan junkie?]

Page thumbnails in Opera are completely and utterly useless compared to Firefox showcase to even suggest that its comparable is a joke. I would have switched tabs nearly two times over if Opera let me switch tabs on mouse over instead of generating a useless thumbnail for one page on mouse over. I think that this page thumbnails thing in Opera is the worst addition aside from the useless torrent client which is only eclipsed by the sheer worthlessness of widgets.

You can see showcase screens here http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=146351

There are better session manager implementations avialable for Firefox, Session saver can actually save text that you have typed into a field unlike Opera.

@shadow skill:
I never saw a session manager for Firefox that was able to start up properly with all opened tabs even when Firefox crashed. Maybe this is better meanwhile. In Opera this part just works (I have certain pages open for month without problems).

With the page thumbnails you describe you may be happy with tiled windows (right click on any tab, arrange->tile): the small pages/tabs (some may call them thumbnails) are fully functional.

I just discovered that only the not minimized tabs are tiled - so you can minimize all tabs, click on the tabs you want to see next to another and choose tile vertically or horizontally. To see all tabs you can maximise all before tiling. That is really great. Together with fit to width you can have just two tabs side by side (or as many you want) fully functional and fully visible in the width. And you can drag and drop text from one text-field into another. I love Opera surprising me

I've never found panelling to be useful unless I was coding, or required to do something that required that I synthesize information; and even then I've always felt that paneling functionality requires tab grouping in order to be truly effective. Personally I think thumbnailing works better for switching tabs when you have alot of them open. I admit its a fine line between the two types of functionality though.

Sessionsaver for Firefox works very well at properly restoring tabs on crashes. Although some themes seem to interfere with the tab name display its not much more than a cosmetic issue though I do admit its just a trifle annoying.

hey, thanks for this post! very informative.

i would just like to say that although, site preferences -> disable javascript is the same as Noscript 'addon' option in firefox.

it doesnt distinguis between the numerous third-party scripts that run on the main site through ads, nor can u see which third-party has its scripts running.

for example going on a site [eg yahoo], has the following options:
enable [site yahoo] javascript
enable [ad-site eg counter] javascript
enable [ad-site eg about blank] javascript
forbid [ad-site] javascript (if a specific javascript is already enabled)

this is not possible in O9's current site preferences, does anyone know a way to enable this or to go around this?
thank you.

@AustenN: You can go around this by examining the source for the URL of the script and use the Content Blocker.
I don't know about a tool to display the external JS-URLs.

Personally I just disable JS for the pages with JS ads. Until now I got no problems (usually I go there by link from another page, i.e. Google and don't have the need to navigate on the site, so I don't know whether there is a problem with navigation).

Its a great idea to list out firefox extension equivalent in opera. It would also be useful to show the file sizes of those extension so that people can see how much garbage they need to install to work firefox work anywhere near opera.
Great work! My best support.

Huge list you posted ...

In Opera I personally would like to see features like FF-extension such as:

• Flashblock (not via Opera's block content)
• All-In One Search button (maybe Opera will implement UHB by default)
• Launchy (it's less hassle than editing menu.ini to launch IE or FF for example)

Originally posted by xErath:

Originally posted by dodd:

CustomizeGoogle

The only decent functionality that script has is available here
http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/google-suggest

Actually, I'm missing lots of things from CustomizeGoogle, like removing the text-ads from google sites (that's really the main thing I'm missing) and rewriting google image search so clicking on an image brings you straight to the image, instead of a google image search result frame.

I've seen a lot of talk at Digg about using the Firefox Styleish plugin to modify the layout of sites by writing your own CSS. To do this in Opera:

Design your custom stylesheet for the site and save it on your computer. Important - because Opera currently overrides the user stylsheet with the Author stylesheet, you need add !important to all your CSS calls to get it to override the default. (I hope they'll change this!!)

Back in the browser, right click and choose "Edit Site Preferences". From the display tab, enter the CSS file you just saved in the "My Style Sheet" field. Now, from the magnifying glass pop-down, use the mode drop-down to select "Manage Modes", make sure page stylesheet and user stylesheet are both selected under "Author Mode".

Wow....Fx needs extension for doing everything...man

Originally posted by dodd:

VideoDownloader -> Not available, just use http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

VideoDownloader widget:
http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4398

And this one is faster than Videodownloader, its a bookmark but gives links to embedded videos on video sites(like like the actual VD extension for Fx):
http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html

Originally posted by dodd:

Gmail Notifier/Gmail Manager/Yahoo! Mail Notifier/EMail_Notifier Toolbar -> you can configure you account in Opera's mail client to get notifications

How do u do this? I really miss the Gmail Notifier extension.

one way is to click the rss icon on your gmail inbox page. It will send opera a rss message everytime one arrives at your gmail inbox.

@bjrn

Block Google Ads:
add http://*.googlesyndication.com/* to Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Content - Blocked Content
(the URL may change some day)

Google Image frame bypasser:
http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/googleimages-thumblink

IETab/IE View -> only "Open in IE" button : http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons#webdev

IETab-like functionality is possible with the Neptune plugin. Look at this page.

Originally posted by ResearchWizard:

@bjrn
Block Google Ads:
add http://*.googlesyndication.com/* to Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Content - Blocked Content
(the URL may change some day)

Google Image frame bypasser:
http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/googleimages-thumblink

First of all, thanks for the frame bypassing script, it was just what I was looking for! Secondly, blocking http://*.googlesyndication.com/* unfortunately doesn't help much when you want to block the text-ads on Google's own pages. However, with some digging, and editing (because what I found didn't work), I worked out that adding

div#co div#rh, div#co div#rh {display: none !important;}

to a css file for gmail took care of the ads.

I still have to work out how to do it for the ads in the google search results, but I'm sure that won't be too hard either.

impressive.

many thanks.

Originally posted by another_user:

one way is to click the rss icon on your gmail inbox page. It will send opera a rss message everytime one arrives at your gmail inbox.

Hmm yes RSS works fine, and so does M2(thnx dodd for helping me out).
But it still downloads the actual message. Cant it just notify me? Otherwise its like using it as a normal email client. Which i dont want to.

Hi dodd,

Scrapbook -> Scrapbook analogue for Opera - OBook plugin

Originally posted by bjrn:

div#co div#rh, div#co div#rh {display: none !important;} to a css file for gmail took care of the ads

That looks great. You should add it to site preferences - display - my stylesheet [user-name].css for mail.google.com. If you put it in the general user.css you may run into problems displaying some pages - and do not necessarily know about it. (I suppose you already did it the right way).

This thread inspired me. I've turned the list into a big table and cleaned things up a bit, and added nice colors etc:

extensions.html

I've also turned this into a blog post.

Neat table very informative although I think the red or pink is a bit difficult to read.

Originally posted by Rijk:

... and added nice colors etc

keep up updating us, I love it

seeing you provide full path link to FF_extensions, what about links for appropriate opera:config paths or Opera userJSs ?

Good job, Rijk!

Originally posted by idleskitter:

Originally posted by Rijk:

... and added nice colors etc

keep up updating us, I love it

seeing you provide full path link to FF_extensions, what about links for appropriate opera:config paths or Opera userJSs ?

I tried to add all relevant links already. Feel free to point out where I've missed them.

I miss "Create Deskcut". I can't seem to find something similar for Opera. Is there a way to create a short cut to the current page on the desktop from Opera??

Thanks

Richard ;-)~

Originally posted by RAMWolff:

I miss "Create Deskcut". I can't seem to find something similar for Opera. Is there a way to create a short cut to the current page on the desktop from Opera??

You can simply drag the icon from the address field to the desktop. Yes, this means you have first to un-maximize the Opera application window.

I'm, glad you liked my idea. Rijk's table is very nice, great successor to my list.

Hmm the only thing I noticied is I like to download lots of attachments on this forum for pictures. When I use downthemall in Firefox it follows the PHP links automatically to the pics and downloads the pictures.

When I try the links panel in Opera it just downloads the PHP file.

Any way to fix this or make it work like downthemall does?

Opera now has a screen ruler widget. Woohoo!:

http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4536

You may want to go into detail on how to used the site content feature and maybe something that can beat Filterset.G

Because adding everything in manually one by one can be rather long and not worth the time. As for Script blocking, is there a way to create a whitelist instead of a blacklist. Maybe there is a way to dump a list of blocked domains into a file that is in Opera. So that we don't have to block every ad ridden domain one by one and save some massive time.

One more Question, does the content block support regular expressions?

Nic elist, to bad Opera didnt have stumble upon or vice versa, cause i like that little extension.

Originally posted by dodd:

CustomizeGoogle -> Not available? (possible with User JavaScript) ; only: http://userjs.org/scripts/site/enhancements/google-suggest

CustomizeGoogle for Opera // CustomizeGoogle

It's hugely incorrect to claim that Opera does "out of the box" the functions Tab Mix Plus extension does in Firefox. TMP is the one reason I haven't switched from Firefox to Opera: I simply cannot live without the functionality it offers.

Originally posted by SuperOscar:

It's hugely incorrect to claim that Opera does "out of the box" the functions Tab Mix Plus extension does in Firefox. TMP is the one reason I haven't switched from Firefox to Opera: I simply cannot live without the functionality it offers.

So what bits are you missing?