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The Superbrowser

262 Comments · Posted by Splasho in Uncategorized

See also: My roundup of the funniest extensions
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Yesterday I decided to undertake an experiment. My favourite browser, Firefox, allows its users to add extensions. Currently 1102 extensions are available at Mozilla update. I decided to install 100 of the most popular extensions at the same time, trying to avoid those that duplicated others functionality. Cruelly, the hundredth was the XPI delay remover.

This scrollable screenshot below shows the result. (View in own page)

Superbrowser - full

It was really extraordinarily stable. The work of hundreds of programmers who had no idea their code would be used together, coexisting happily in the browser.

Here is what I got when I right-clicked:

Right click

Overall I was very impressed. The browser was a little slow on my machine (which doesn’t have impressive specs) but there were no crashes except when installing the extensions. The main problem I had was that the statusbar became so wide that on some websites I had to expand the browser window onto my second monitor! I discovered a number of extensions that I would not otherwise have known about and strongly recommend a trawl through at least the first hundred.

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Update: (28 Feb) Statistics

Stats

It takes around seven seconds to start up.

It freezes for at least one second between pages (I guess a lot is hanging on the onLoad.)

It has not yet crashed, half hour or so I’ve browsed with it, since all the extensions have been installed (for some reason it did crash immediately after installing them, before restarting.)

See also: My roundup of the funniest extensions

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262 comments

  • Superbrowser or superheadache? at FactoryCity · March 3, 2006 at 4:17 am

    [...] Yes, this is kind of what we’re trying to avoid in Flock. I mean, take a look. While I’m sure a lot of functionality in there is pretty useful — that’s a user experience I would never want to impost on anyone! [...]

  • Techno Mojo » Blog Archive » Firefox, the super browser · March 3, 2006 at 5:11 am

    [...] Someone finally did it. This guy has installed 100 extensions onto his Firefox browser.  He said that the only issue he had was installing which was fixed by a reboot. Talk about pushing the limit… [...]

  • JK · March 3, 2006 at 8:48 am

    Haha.. But do any of these extensions help you just a bit? Or will you remove them?

  • Arun Ambika Sasikumar · March 3, 2006 at 9:56 am

    I am pretty satisfied to knowabout the reliability of the browser. And haven’t given a try using all the available extentions, but good to know that people had tried it our successfully.The browser starts off with a delay and good for a long run .

    Thanks for the developers who sweat’d out for this

    Arun A.S
    http://www.arunspillai.blogspot.com

  • Khaled’s Blog » Blog Archive » List of links for the week! · March 3, 2006 at 3:03 pm

    [...] The Superbrowser – Firefox with 100 extensions installed [...]

  • Richard Harlos . com » Blog Archive » Firefox: Superbrowser! · March 3, 2006 at 7:44 pm

    [...] Firefox truly is the Superbrowser and you can read more about the experiment in a Splasho article called The Superbrowser from 26 February 2006. [...]

  • PIRABYTE » Blog Archive » · March 4, 2006 at 1:08 am

    [...] The Simpsomaker. Simpsomaker te permite hacer tu propio personaje con el estilo de los Simpsons. Aplicaciones para instalar en la memoria USB. Versiones mini de programas diseñadas para llevar en la memoria USB. 100 extensiones en el Firefox. Experimento instalando las 100 extensiones más populares disponibles para el Firefox. [...]

  • 徐杰 · March 4, 2006 at 2:06 am

    老大，厉害！！

  • Redeye » 当firefox装上100个插件 · March 4, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    [...] 不管怎么说，对咱们来说，可以坐山观虎斗，呵呵，来欣赏一下firefox变成大胖子的样子吧！原文地址：link。 [...]

  • Omar the Tentmaker · March 5, 2006 at 12:47 am

    I agree: GET A LIFE!

  • mtness · March 5, 2006 at 11:34 am

    You forgot the footifox ext. 8)

  • tutanchamun · March 5, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    此人疯子，鉴定完毕^^

  • Plugins para Firefox — Proletarium · March 5, 2006 at 9:11 pm

    [...] Esto es lo que pasa cuando de instalas todas las extensiones de Firefox En: Mozilla, outbox [...]

  • bela_666 · March 6, 2006 at 1:09 am

    How does stats program name?

  • MTYBlogs » Que pasa si instalas todas las extenciones de Firefox? · March 6, 2006 at 4:08 am

    [...] Esto es lo que pasa cuando de instalas todas las extensiones de Firefox [...]

  • 雲淡風輕 » Blog Archive » “外掛瀏覽器”Firefox… · March 6, 2006 at 10:10 am

    [...] http://splasho.com/blog/2006/02/26/the-superbrowser/ [...]

  • /* basquiat's lovely winter riot */ · March 6, 2006 at 10:37 pm

    Der Superbrowser…

    Firefox, überfüttert.
    So in etwa sieht unser aller Lieblingsbrowser aus, wenn man ihm 100 der populärsten Erweiterungen von mozilla.org spendiert. Verrückt genung dafür kann natürlich nur ein Brite sein. Mehr auf seinen Seiten….

  • Antholog · March 7, 2006 at 6:49 pm

    Extreme Firefox…

    I love me some Firefox, but this is way overboard. Still, it’s good to know that adding in the 100 most popular extensions doesn’t hurt its stability….

  • Geir Arne · March 7, 2006 at 6:53 pm

    Reminds me of the time I enabled every toolbar in Microsoft Word. Today’s graphical user interfaces clearly have some *major* scaling problems.

  • george Washington · March 7, 2006 at 6:54 pm

    i have 60+ installed .its a bit slow to load but i love options and the long right clik listing…dayum its neat!

  • naurhir · March 7, 2006 at 7:39 pm

    Is it sad that I can name half of those extensions by the context and toolbars they add?

    I keep around 90 or so on my home firefox, but I hide bars until they are needed etc. so it still looks minimalistic.

  • cplusruss · March 7, 2006 at 8:15 pm

    Sweet. I’ve got about 400 extensions. Runs pretty slow at startup, but gets faster after a while. I hate the way firefox manages toolbars – you can’t move them, nor can you make them float. I should make an extension to solve this instead of complaining.

  • churchofthegeek.com » Blog Archive » Firefox With 100 Extensions · March 7, 2006 at 8:40 pm

    [...] check it out [...]

  • The Workings of the Thing in my Head » Firefox plus the top 100 extensions equals.. the Superbrowser! · March 7, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    [...] Splasho took Firefox 1.5 and installed the top 100 extensions on top of it. It’s a bird.. it’a a plane.. it’s.. The Superbrowser! via C|Net [...]

  • 来自北京 · March 8, 2006 at 5:18 am

    nb阿

  • Ghost · March 8, 2006 at 5:21 am

    干丫823～～

  • 法克构思特 · March 8, 2006 at 5:25 am

    就是我最大的梦想

  • Boler Guo · March 8, 2006 at 6:21 am

    太厉害了，强！

  • SporTech Matter » Ever wonder what IE looks like in Firefox? · March 8, 2006 at 6:16 pm

    [...] Read More FireFuxed   [...]

  • noisy, noisy man - your daily dose of retard. · March 9, 2006 at 2:41 am

    [...] Super FireFox – Geeky Goodness! [click here] [...]

  • interhui · March 9, 2006 at 3:30 am

    Is it useful?

  • 聽本犀來說 · March 9, 2006 at 6:10 am

    firefox 重度使用者～～～…

    有個人，選了一百多個 firefox 的 extension 裝上，特壯觀滴～

    http://splasho.com/blog/2006/02/26/the-superbrowser...

  • ctqucl · March 9, 2006 at 2:53 pm

    谁能把这些插件打个包，我一把下载了装上看看。哈哈哈哈。

  • Diario a Borbo » 100 extensiones en un Firefox · March 9, 2006 at 8:39 pm

    [...] Desde Slapsho han realizado un experimento con el navegador Firefox de las 1148 extensiones disponibles ha instalando las 100 más populares evitando aquellas con funcionalidad parecida. El resultado ha sido bueno se ha mantenido estable aunque tuvo problemas con el ancho del statusbar [...]

  • links for 2006-03-11 at Netsensei · March 11, 2006 at 5:17 pm

    [...] The Superbrowser (tags: mozilla firefox) [...]

  • 爱是生命 » postshow二次过滤（8） · March 12, 2006 at 6:54 am

    [...] 不管怎么说，对咱们来说，可以坐山观虎斗，呵呵，来欣赏一下firefox变成大胖子的样子吧！原文地址：link。 [...]

  • יובל · March 12, 2006 at 3:49 pm

    שלום!
    חיזרו לתיאטרון!

  • משה · March 12, 2006 at 6:24 pm

    שלום!
    חיזרו לישראל!

  • עמית · March 12, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    וואלה!

  • לול · March 13, 2006 at 7:19 am

    מי לעזעזל שם 100 הרחבות

  • LOL · March 13, 2006 at 8:51 am

    אחד הטובים

    It`s intersting if someone understand the few last comments

  • FARUK · March 13, 2006 at 12:00 pm

    I DOWNLOADED 100 EXTENSIONS FOR FIREFOX,
    AND AL I GOT WAS THIS EVER SO USELESS MENUS………

  • graphpaper.com · March 13, 2006 at 8:41 pm

    [...] A recent post at Splasho.com took on the following experimental challenge: Yesterday I decided to undertake an experiment. My favourite browser, Firefox, allows its users to add extensions. Currently 1102 extensions are available at Mozilla update. I decided to install 100 of the most popular extensions at the same time, trying to avoid those that duplicated others functionality. [...]

  • crawlspace|media · March 13, 2006 at 11:01 pm

    [...] Check out the full story. [...]

  • dig1234 · March 14, 2006 at 11:50 am

    see. (0_0)

  • Алекс · March 15, 2006 at 2:31 am

    Ну ты продвинутый, братан :) )) улыбнуло.

  • solyak1 · March 15, 2006 at 4:20 pm

    Array

  • funkysoul’s Blog » Firefox Extensions · March 15, 2006 at 8:27 pm

    [...] http://splasho.com/blog/2006/02/26/the-superbrowser/ You can also bookmark this on del.icio.us or check the cosmos [...]

  • Il Superbrowser at Giocolando · March 17, 2006 at 1:21 am

    [...] Questo articolo su splasho racconta l’esperimento di installare 100 tra le più popolari estensioni per Firefox. Con tanto di screenshot. Buffo. Meritano un’occhiata. [...]

  • BLINGBLOG » Blog Informatique, Web et Insolite » En vrac #6 · March 17, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    [...] Vous aimez les extensions Firefox ? Peut-être pas au point d’en installer une centaine ! Et pourtant c’est possible, et c’est même plutôt stable (il ne faut par contre trop compter sur la réactivité du navigateur dans ce cas…) [...]

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