Thread: Share those tiny little (or mighty big) programs you could not live without.

Originally Posted by Marvo

It's probably an extension for Opera, converted to FireFox later on

No, Opera did it in-house years back. Same with tabbed browsing, before it was cool (and Opera still supports split-screen viewing and whatnot that Firefox ignores). Opera doesn't support extensions per-se, and I like it that way.

Originally Posted by dsr

I also depend upon this functionality. Firefox and Camino have it builtin (they call it keyword searching).

As does Opera, but YubNub is different. It's a social app where people have set up their own commands so you don't have to, and there are more complex things you can other than simple query-string replacing.

Originally Posted by dsr

That's why people use OpenOffice.org ...
Seriously, though, if you hate the fact that proprietary software comes with restrictive licenses, why don't you just use free (libre) software?

I downloaded StarOffice (Sun's proprietary fork of OOo (which was a fork of StarOffice )) from the Google Pack, but I am somewhat alarmed at the Googleness of it all. It's covered in Google task bars and phones home every now and then.

Should have not been greedy and gone for OOo (needed neither, tbh, I have Office 2003).

As for scripting languages, yes they are pretty neat. I endorse Python and I'm currently using the brilliant Windows version of Cream, a really nice version of VIM without the weird control scheme. I was previously an XEmacs user, but Cream is far easier: