Help with Opera or FF

[GoodRevrnd]

I used to use FF, but switched to Chrome because of the bloat and media files would never play right in FF. Frankly, Chrome pisses me off. I can't stand the lack of live bookmarking, ad-blocking is simply sub-par, Youtube videos won't play half the time, and in-browser Adobe reader crashes about 3x as often as it did in FF (which was still a lot).

My biggest annoyance in FF was if I click on an mp3 it doesn't instantly play streaming in the browser. Granted you could theoretically make this happen, but I will not let Quicktime on my computer again and it would never display the player controls while streaming (just a black box). Quicktime Alternative / WMPC plugin had the same problem. VLC is another option but just a complete nightmare in itself, doing wacky things as far as stability, bizarre video scaling, etc.

Honestly, I would prefer to use Opera because then I could sync bookmarks with my mobile phone easily. I also prefer the more modern window layout of Opera/Chrome compared to FF. The problem with Opera is it has no native support for streaming media like Chrome or IE do either. I also don't quite understand Opera ad-blocking, but haven't spent much time learning to configure it yet.

So does anyone have any suggestions to solve my browser woes?

 

[Murloc]

I use FF with quicktime and manage to survive.

 

[ForumMaster]

to stream media in opera, you first need a plugin like quicktime (shudder).

to configure opera to play an mp3 file instead of opening a save file dialog,
go to Tools>Preferences>Downloads...

Now type audio for example and a list of results
will show up. double click any of them and you configure
what opera should do with them. you can add an extension to the profile and tell opera to use quicktime to open it, save it somewhere and so on.

second, to block ads in opera, right click in a page, select 'Block Content', click on the ad, and the domain will be blocked. shift click to block a specific add.

and the best thing to do, is to add a list of blocked domains for opera from a site like this.

 

[pyonir]

What sites don't work for you in FF? I use FF exclusively and do not have Quicktime installed on my system. Never had a problem with mp3's or video.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

What sites don't work for you in FF? I use FF exclusively and do not have Quicktime installed on my system. Never had a problem with mp3's or video.

So if you click a link that actually points to a filename.mp3 it will open in a new tab (or current one i guess) and just stream it?

As to using Quicktime in FF, even if I wanted to it does not work properly. I see no player controls, all I get is a little blacked out box.

re: Opera... no other functional alternatives to QT?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

can i have some links, GoodRevrnd?

 

[pyonir]

So if you click a link that actually points to a filename.mp3 it will open in a new tab (or current one i guess) and just stream it?

As to using Quicktime in FF, even if I wanted to it does not work properly. I see no player controls, all I get is a little blacked out box.

re: Opera... no other functional alternatives to QT?

Provide links and I'll let you know. I usually use Winamp to play mp3 files as very, very rarely (actually I can't even think of a single time) have I gone to a site where you can play an mp3 directly from the site.

As for QT, what sites, other than Apple, use QT exclusively where that is all you can use?

 

[GoodRevrnd]

for testing purposes: http://rednicko.com/100411/crystal-crime(midnight).mp3
root site: http://redthreat.wordpress.com/

The point is I prefer having an embedded player for quickly watching a silly video or instantly previewing a song, rather than downloading the whole thing and opening it up in another program. If I really want to download it I'll just right click save as. Chrome has a built in player, QT will do this if it worked properly.

 

[ForumMaster]

So if you click a link that actually points to a filename.mp3 it will open in a new tab (or current one i guess) and just stream it?

As to using Quicktime in FF, even if I wanted to it does not work properly. I see no player controls, all I get is a little blacked out box.

re: Opera... no other functional alternatives to QT?

you can use WMP. quicktime, much as i hate it supports a variety of formats.

what do you use in FF?