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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@[email protected] I would love to use Vivaldi, but unfortunately the Ad-Blocker on Android isn't very good - Firefox using ublock-extension or Brave is doing a much better job there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] I would love to support Vivaldi more than I do but I worry about the Chromium base and also Firefox has its own plugin ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] I tried to vote but it was not registering my vote from what I could see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] only now noticed your handle and who you are...and "Feel free to share why."

For me having an alternative rendering engine is a key reason to stay loyal to Firefox.

So no vivaldi for me though I trust you if you'd say it's wonderful in many other aspects (like features and privacy).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] Firefox, largely because I like supporting an alternative (non-Blink) rendering engine - I think a rendering engine monoculture is very dangerous for the internet as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] #DuckDuckGo is my favorite browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] Firefox since early times. Now evaluating Vivaldi on Linux and iPad(I know same browser engine as Safari). Just curious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] Firefox, because it has good privacy options, and their development tools are very useful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@jon Firefox, despite Mozilla’s current trajectory because the Chromium monopoly will ultimately harm the web.

Hope to use @servo someday 🤞

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
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@[email protected] I’m currently trying Zen, which is FF inside and Arc outside, basically.
Re: why, I think Chrome is the new IE6, and we need more engines to keep the web open

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] It is my default browsing. Completely customizable, I adjust it to my way and it has many options and pluses such as blog, note taking, RSS reader, translator and much more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] After testing all the browsers my favourite is Vivaldi due to their focus on privacy and no crypto crap. I also like to browse their forums which has been helpful to me at times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I have no favourite browser anymore since Opera 12. I don't want to support the Chromium dominance but Firefox still feels clunky. I have some sympathy for the Zen browser project. And then there's Vivaldi, with a lot of stuff I appreciated when I was still using Opera. But … Chromium, you know 🤷.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@fluchtkapsel

Indeed, we are using Chromium, but there really is not a lot of choice. I hope you will make the switch. If you liked Opera 12, you will love Vivaldi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I already use Vivaldi since a botched Chromium browser update about a year ago. It's just a little bit sad that there's neither a lot of choice nor something like Chromium project but on a Gecko basis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected]

I wish I could have used Presto, but sadly that is not an option. The Presto code was much better in many ways that both Gecko and Blink. It was all in one. Very little 3rd party code. It compiled in a couple of minutes on a slow computer.

At this time the Chromium codebase is the best available.

Clearly there is a lot more to a browser than just the core and we modify the core as needed as well, so I hope you see we are providing something special here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] I run with @[email protected] and @[email protected] on my daily machines, but have access to #Opera, #Edge, #Firefox and #Chrome for UI testing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] Firefox Focus on iOS. Refuses everything by default. Has a “delete session” button.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] 日本語で書きます。翻訳サイトなど使ってください。
Firefoxは唯一日本語IMEの動作を正しく行ってくれます。なので文節などの変換が見やすく、安心できます。拡張が多くても不安定になりにくいです。Quantumは正しい判断だったと思います。

Chromium系(Elctronも)IMEの処理がおざなりで点線出しとけはいいだろうとしかとれない動作画面です。たまに文節区切りを見失いますし変なところになることがあります。

あとは垂直タブがあるかどうかで、その垂直タブもタブ同士の親子関係が表せられないと意味がないです。
ということでFirefox+Tree Style Tabが使いやすく、その次にVivaldiが来ます。

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected]

General usage: LibreWolf
Dev: Polypane by @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] as Linux based devs are just ~3 % of all users, it has no meaning for the overall picture 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] I like the hypocrisy of open source community as everybody uses Firefox and the overall usage is under 3 %

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected]

#Firefox got a ton of variants/forks recently.

  • #Librewolf
  • #MullvadBrowser
  • #ZenBrowser
  • #Midori

So yeah I take Firefox + Arkenfox user.js or Librewolf if they fixed their CI/CD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

TIL Midori migrated to Gecko in 2019

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Sometimes i take Vimb for lighter browsing, but for the most time i stay attached to Firefox for the whole browsing experience and sync my tablet, laptop & smartphone with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

@[email protected]

Firefox because it isn't chromium, and I just like it. With chromium, google controls the web. Doesn't matter what kind of wrapper a third party puts on it. It's still chromium and it's still google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] Chrome and Brave - I don't care about Google as we pay a lot of money for SaaS by Google, there's no alternative to

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] After dropping Opera, I now mostly use Waterfox. Vivaldi is also on my desktop and laptop. But so is Brave, Firefox and DuckDuckGO. Edge is also on there, but only because MS won't allow me to remove it :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] I’ve been using Vivaldi lately, but I also like Firefox and Librewolf. However the internet today feels like that of 2000, so many websites only work with todays IE (Chrome), so yeah, the options are either Chromium or Gecko; and the latter doesn’t work for all websites.

It’s a very sad state of affairs.

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

@[email protected]
Just wish Google was not used in vivaldi , so when I don't want their influence I use ddg . if there is a way to keep Google completely out of Vivaldi. I'd like to know how.
Thanks MTT

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

@[email protected]

I currently use:

Firefox on the desktop
Librewolf on the Linux laptop
Waterfox on my main phone

Vivaldi on my other persona on desktop, laptop and second phone.

Also going to try Floop and Zen.

Ostensibly I want to use Firefox forks but I find Vivaldi pretty cool despite being Chromium, especially on mobile.

TBH, none of them are ideal. I'd love to have one browser with multiple profiles across multiple devices, but I find that doesn't work for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

@[email protected]

asking us to vote between:

  • Chrome
  • Chrome
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • other (but mostly Chrome)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] Safari because it’s fast, reliable, has a beautiful design, fits well in the Apple ecosystem and it’s not Chromium!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected]
Vivaldi is my daily driver, looking into Librewolf as my not-Chrome.
What I'd really like is the Vivaldi shell, as & tracker blocking, etc, with the Firefox HTML & js engines. No google or moz bullshit, just a nice clean shell and engines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

#Firefox because of Multi-Account Containers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] Firefox, because its the only real alternative to chrome and its clones, firefox its still the most customizable browser, vivaldi its the second, but the biggest con of vivaldi feels that its the slower among chrome clones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] I like Zen browser because it comes with vertical tabs, screenshot feature, and familiar dev tools.

Moreover, unlike Safari, it works well on macOS and Slack notification. When I checked my Slack tab on Safari, I usually found that it didn't load the page yet although I didn't shutdown or restart the computer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] I choose Vivaldi as my favorite because I like many things about it. I use my home computer now for recipes, cash spreadsheets, and a shopping list. I had not previously used social media and this is a nice surprise for me to enjoy it. I used Netscape before Metacrawler and then I used shelves of books until trying Firefox. I used Chrome then Edge before I retired, but used Firefox and DuckDuckGo on home computers until I noticed Vivaldi about two years ago and put it on my home computer and laptop and cellphone. I like its many options and features and forums full of answers to questions I might ever need ask! It gives me a calendar and note and task pads and all sorts of things which optionally can sync and be seen when I use the browser on my cellphone or to choose not to sync. The very best is, when I removed Windows Operating System from my old laptop and replaced it with one of the Linux distributions now this Vivaldi continues to give me my familiar user experience. Thank you, to all and everyone who is and who are responsible for allowing me this user experience which followed me between operating systems, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] Arc, with spaces, profiles, boosts, and really considered design decisions, it works really well for what I do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago
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