So Long Firefox, Hello Vivaldi
It’s been twenty-three years since the day Phoenix was released, the web browser that eventually became Firefox. I downloaded it on the first day and installed it on my trusty HP Omnibook 800…
So he traded Firefox for... basically Chromium.
It's not even open source. Being in Europe doesn't automatically grant you the privacy, let alone the free software rights.
I don't really have a lot of reason to believe that this will happen, but I wish Mozilla would back off the AI nonsense. I don't want to switch browsers. I think Vivaldi is actually very cool and is my go-to any time a site is misbehaving in FF, but not being FOSS is a big bummer to me.
That said, Vivaldi's built-in web panel feature is SO nice!!
Even if it was foss, it would still be a chromium based rendering engine. Basically Firefox and apple's WebKit are the only things to run to that isn't chromium based, the web is barely staying 'open' as it is.
Does Vivaldi match Firefox for adblocking ability? That's always been my highest priority when it comes to browsers.
I'm actually trying it out as my daily driver for a week or so trying to answer that exact question. I've got Pihole on my network so it won't be a true test of Vivaldi alone, but I can say with the weaker Manifest V3 version of uBlock and whatever Vivaldi has built in, I've been satisfied. Granted, it's just been a day, but I tried my damnedest to get some YouTube ads to appear with no success.
all entities are being flashed a lot of cash if they join the AI game and i don't blame firefox for joining in because of it and plus, it'll help them stay around a little bit longer.
Thanks for the reminder to toss the Servo project some money. There needs to be another competitor to Chromium.
I feel the author. I loved Firefox. Then it went downhill and I used Vivaldi for years.
I stick to Firefox again (Floorp, to be precise, Zen browser when I want to chill) just for diversity's sake and I'm fine with that.
Still, I am sad that Vivaldi runs with Chromium at it's core.
There are options if you want something like Firefox without the AI nonsense like waterfox and librewolf.
I enjoyed Vivaldi for a bit.
But the second time I opened it to find my tabs, browsing history, and literally all other user data, gone... Months apart, with thousands of saved bookmarks and hundreds of tabs lost each time.
I never went back. Deleting everything is just completely unacceptable.
I never found anyone else who'd have it happen, but twice was a pattern I didn't care to repeat.
From the article:
The inability to video conference reliably [on LibreWolf]
Could someone elaborate on this? Also
I like my browsers to remember when I have zoomed in on a tab
If she means the browser remembering the zoom levels on different pages, this can be done IIRC by disabling resist fingerprinting in about:config and then installing the canvas blocker addon which is not as good as RFP, but for me at least has been a good compromise privacy-wise.
Out of date info! Have a look at this instead: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1775
Always wanted to like Vivaldi. Like the aesthetic options but it always feels very bloated a browser. LibreWolf with uBlock can be enough to be highly useful and it feels leaner. I do miss the old Opera with the Presto engine, sigh.
i love firefox and librewolf but ive been using vivaldi more and more since their no ai stance combined with the fact theyre not a us company is really nice. you can also add adblock compatable filterlists to the built in tracker too. just wish they enabled extensions on mobile :(
"AI" is whatever (it's a meaningless buzzword - some "AI features" I like and some I don't care about) but proprietary is a dealbreaker.