{"id":1076,"date":"2014-05-06T06:32:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T13:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2014-05-06T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:06:55","slug":"opera-with-chrome-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Opera With Chrome Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox.\u00a0 Dang it.<\/p>\n<p>Coding some javascript and waiting for a build, I was checking out my OK Cupid profile and wiped my Chick-Fil-A grease on my LA Clippers t-shirt when someone walked up and said \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOMG!!!\u00a0 You are using Firefox!\u00a0 What a moral outrage!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crap.\u00a0 Can\u2019t win here.\u00a0 Time for a new third browser.\u00a0\u00a0 I have to use IE (reality) and Chrome.\u00a0 IE, sigh.\u00a0 Good ideas, bad implementation like a Corvair.\u00a0 Oops that\u2019s non-PC too.\u00a0 Wait were Corvairs bad cars? Can\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not I work in the stone ages and can&#8217;t install Safari on my Win 7 machine.\u00a0\u00a0 You need admin rights for that.\u00a0 I know, crazy \u2013 <i>a developer without admin rights????<\/i>; my setup starts with what the front desk has which is so nuts.\u00a0 But . . . I CAN install Opera.\u00a0 And Opera is kinda neat because it\u2019s a *version* of Google Chrome and is also my mobile browser of choice.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time I didn\u2019t do this because I couldn\u2019t install any good plugins but this has changed \u2013 Opera 20 has a plugin that let\u2019s you install Chrome plugins.<\/p>\n<p>The two I absolutely need (besides developer&#8217;s stuff):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xmarks &#8212; very implement for sharing project links between browsers, especially during testing.\u00a0 And the profiles are awesome.\u00a0 I organinze my research in folders this way too.<\/li>\n<li>Controlled Multi-tab Browsing &#8212; this lets me limit my browsers to 9 tabs.\u00a0 I am an infernal tab opener, and I read at Lifehacker.com that all&#8217;s you need are 9 tabs max &#8212; and I&#8217;m following that right now.\u00a0 And seriously it\u2019s a big help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be careful about the multitab limit plugins.\u00a0 There\u2019s another Chrome one I cannot recommend called Tabalot that does this (explicitly from their plugin site):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>After reaching a configurable open tab limit (that excludes pinned tabs) Tabalot will automatically close the left-hand non-active tab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/a069e080bcf61b40d2693d49ea8ea643.png\" width=\"268\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no prompt or anything as of this date \u2013 just closes the darn tab.\u00a0 Sounded great until it closed a Google Doc I keep open all day and I lost my information for the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>So anyway in Opera you can install Chrome plugins.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a big deal to *me* because XMarks doesn&#8217;t have a deployment for Opera. To do this you need to first install a plugin called <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.opera.com\/en\/extensions\/details\/download-chrome-extension-9\/?display=en\">Chrome Extension<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are the steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install Opera\u2019s Chrome Extension.<\/li>\n<li>Install your favorite Chrome Plugins \u2013 Opera will be treated like Chrome because they are based on the same <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WebKit\">WebKit<\/a> core \u2013 as is Safari.<\/li>\n<li>Xmarks will work properly in Opera (or it has for me in version 20).\u00a0 Joy of Joys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now when these politics and religion talking people come sauntering around they\u2019ll just see me with Opera, Chrome and IE.<\/p>\n<p>But did I uninstall Firefox?\u00a0 Heck no.\u00a0 Never know when it might be PC again and Chrome be the next offender. I\u2019m even keeping Sea Monkey on my PortableApps just in case someone sees me shopping at Walmart or the Co-op and complains about my browser.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there&#8217;s always wget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox.\u00a0 Dang it. Coding some javascript and waiting for a build, I was checking out my OK Cupid profile and wiped my Chick-Fil-A grease on my LA Clippers t-shirt when someone walked up and said \u2013 \u201cOMG!!!\u00a0 You are using Firefox!\u00a0 What a moral outrage!\u201d Crap.\u00a0 Can\u2019t win here.\u00a0 Time for a new third browser.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}