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The thing I liked about Opera was the lack of plugins.

No waiting for 10 add0-ins you've never heard of to update themsleves and ask you to restart your computer.

No having to search the net for add-ins to do things like toggle image loading or prevent popups.

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These aren't Firefox add-ins. These are small pieces of JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Probably won't bog down your browser any more than UserJS scripts.

According to them, these new extensions will also have [more?] control over tabs and windows, which plain JS (like their existing Widgets) cannot do.

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getting-started-with-oper...

If you haven't heard of them, why do you have them? Why don't you get rid of them?

I'm also interested in what kind of add-ons you have installed that require you to restart your computer.

I also don't see how the existence of extensions is a downside for a browser. Firefox ships with none to begin with.

Dependencies. You want to toggle image loading (opera's original killer feature), that uses the wibble library witch needs the flooble dll. So you get a message telling you a new flooble library is available everytime you start to browse.

The plugins generally don't need a restart - but under windows the default for installer examples is to restart and the guy that did the flooble binary packaging didn't bother to change it.

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