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  • tjtherealbest@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Everyone talks about Firefox. And that’s cause Firefox is good and hands down the best. But I’ve been using Vivaldi which is chromium based for years. Anyone have any opinion on Vivaldi?

    • Aagje_D_Vogel@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Vivaldi is based on Chromium. So it basically gets placed in the same field as Chrome and Edge.

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        1 year ago

        Basically except they dumped the parts they didn’t like and built it out to be better than anything else based on chromium.

        So it’s leagues above both of those browsers.

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        1 year ago

        chromium is fine though? doesn’t send any data over. Just has a problem with addons pretty sure

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      1 year ago

      I use it for work stuff, so it’s not my daily driver and I wish Firefox just copied some of the stuff.

      Tiling and Grouping is just neat.

      or if Vivaldi switched to the firefox engine it would be perfect.

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      1 year ago

      Vivaldi has some amazing features that I wish other browsers would catch up on. Unfortunately it’s really buggy. Crashes with no recourse to recover your tabs. That’s a deal breaker and I dealt with that a fair number of times. Then I decided I’d use their workspaces feature to try and avoid losing all my tabs. Great plan, worked until all my fucking workspaces got deleted too. For every good feature Vivaldi has, it has several game breaking bugs.

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      1 year ago

      If you use Firefox but are frustrated with how slow it can get, try Waterfox. It’s Firefox but without the annoying stuff.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I love Vivaldi, if Firefox could do side bar and tab grouping id use it but V just does it better and with built in ad blocking.

      • ImTiagoSousa@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I use Edge and can’t switch to Firefox for the same reasons. There’s stuff I use on Edge that is not available on Firefox. Unfortunately, those are dealbreakers for me.

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        1 year ago

        There is an extension for tab grouping (simple tab groups). It and ublock origin are the two main ones I install first when I install FF fresh.

        Side tabs I’m not sure of, but I’d be more surprised if there isn’t an extension for that, too.

    • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s not bad, but using a Chromium-based browser still supports Google’s attempts to build a monopoly on browser rendering engines. Also, there are Browsers (like LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox) with better privacy features and adblock.