User:84user/wishlist

This page is in my User space and should not be confused with a wikipedia article.

Media players
Key: G=GOM M=Media Player Classic S=SUPER V=VLC media player Z=ZOOM


 * GOM Player hangs on some files playable with S,V,Z
 * Media Player Classic cannot render some files playable with S,V,Z
 * QuickTime generally terrible and slow
 * Real Player generally awful
 * SUPER (software) handles almost everything, but with a poor GUI
 * VLC media player plays most codecs with gaps and bugs
 * Windows Media Player fails to play many codecs
 * Zoom player cannot render some files playable with S,V,Z

Awkward media formats

 * .rmvb only payable with Real Player, G, M and Z

What Opera has that would be useful in Firefox

 * Page zooming that works on everything!
 * Firefox has "View / Text Size / Increase " and Decrease but this neglects images
 * Image Zoom is close but does not zoom the whole page and does not work with macromedia images
 * does not hog memory

What Firefox has that would be useful in Opera

 * "Find in this page" using control-F and with persistence.
 * Opera does not have an equivalent, Opera's "Find" comes close but misses the essential aspects


 * fast tabbing
 * Opera has Alt-tab but it is not fast enough because it requires two user actions to Firefox's one


 * Resurrect this page add-on
 * Opera seems to have no equivalent

Is Firefox a Memory Hog?
Yes. At least Firefox 2 on my Windows Vista would regularly use over 1 gigabyte of extra RAM. Yes one whole Gigabyte, on a 2 Gigabyte system where the first Gigabyte was already used by Vista. Because I read posts from users that claimed Firefox 3 was better and *only* used 200 or 300 megabytes of memory with around 12 tabs open, I decided to upgrade. Here are my results.

Megabytes RAM  What I did 982           installed Firefox 3 (FF3) but did not launch it yet 1040           launch, open two more tabs, one is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page the other is my wikipedia user page which I am editing now So that means FF3 has used 58 megabytes already 1020           memory usage is decreasing as I type? 1020           opened news.bbc.co.uk in new FF window 1020           opened three BBC news pages each in a tab 1030           clicked Preview button on wikipedia page 980           opened new wikipedia.org page and closed original mozilla start page 990           click my wikipedia watchlist (so far FF3 is behaving itself quite well!) 1020           after 4 windows opened, a google search and a wikipedia edit unknown        after 20 hours open, FF3 crashes, so I restore the session 1180           FF3 session restored, 4 windows open, total of 10 tabs open 1190           after writing the above two lines!

Browser suggestions
I welcome anyone to provide links to Add-ons or widgets, Greasemonkey or other tweaks that implement these missing features. I have already seen various Opera settings to partly-implement Firefox's "Find" but so far each one fails to address the essential Find behaviour (press control-F in any tab and browser must immediately use the last-entered find text - Opera requires the user to retype each time; control-g is a part solution but takes too many user actions and simply does not allow user to edit the last find text)

If either Opera or Firefox implemented these shortcomings then I would only need to use one browser!