Epiphany supports extensions in an optional
package you can install through YaST, but does not let you pull in Firefox extensions directly.
Opera
This commercial browser has long been the home of much innovation in the browser
market. Opera first employed the idea of tabbed browsing, with multiple sites displayed
within a single browser window, pop-up ad blocking, strict adherence to standards, and
(to somewhat lesser acclaim) advertising-supported software. In 2006, Opera Software
celebrated its tenth anniversary as a company by making the browser free of charge (but
not yet open source), and dropping the ad window from the top of the browser. This
included version 9 for Linux.
Like SeaMonkey, Opera (Figure 13.6) has a built-in email client that also supports RSS
feeds (see Chapter 16 for more on RSS) and an Internet Relay Chat client. Opera 9 introduced
a BitTorrent client that works inside the standard download engine, and a Widget
engine. Opera Widgets are more like desktop gadgets than browser extensions, with
assorted diversions, games and RSS newsfeeds and podcasts.
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