I know we aren’t allowed to use Chrome. We can’t use Brave. But how does the Lemmy community feel about the Vivaldi Browser? or is it still not Firefox…
Vivaldi is pretty good. Henry from Techlore seems to like it. Also, while it is proprietary, the source code is available to view, audit, and compile.
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Thanks everyone for the feedback. I was using Brave but have been getting a bunch of people saying I shouldn’t be (mainly referencing the founder). Currently giving Vivaldi a go, so far so good.
Definitely get your side panel set up, it’s nice to have things like chathub, notes, and any website you don’t need for long periods of time (I keep fandom wiki pages for all the crafting games I play like Valheim in the side bar for quick information on items and components.)
There’s also the three different tab stacking options to choose from and a nice theme UI editor built in. As long as you chose block trackers and ads you should be pretty good on that without needing UBO. I don’t see anything on YT and that’s just with stock V.
I would say Vivaldi is my favorite Chromium browser, carrying forward the values of OG Opera from when I was a teenager. A browser for people who love to customize and want everything but the kitchen sink in one suite. Sadly, unlike Opera, which ran its own Presto browser engine, Vivaldi is somewhat leashed by Google, due to it running on Chromium. So I mostly use Firefox
Use whatever you want?
The guy is asking, in a vague way, for advice on which browser is best
Syncing between installs needs work, but it’s my daily driver
I love Vivaldi sync? What issues you having?
I started using Vivaldi when they finally added sync a d the sync is a thing I have the most problems with!
I randomly get duplicate notes and bookmarks if I edit some.
It always feels like ages until things get synchronized between devices (e.g. tabs).
There’s this very prominent button in the share menu “Send to device” which doesn’t work at all (I’ve read somewhere that it’s a deprecated thing from Chromium, but why haven’t they removed it for several years it’s broken…?)
And also in past months it just randomly disconnected from the server several times on several devices, didn’t even notify me except for changing the sync icon (on Android you have to go to the settings menu), and for a reconnect, I had to enter the passphrase again each time.
I see. You might be pushing it harder than I typically do. I use it to setup new installs and get all my pluguns transfered and for keeping bookmarks and history synced and it works well for this. I’m not typically doing a lot of hot syncing looking for tabs to update rapidly etc. Be sure to give them feedback and upvote similar complaints on their blog.
It’s top on my list of Chromium browsers
It’s chromium but has a special place in my heart because it’s made by the og Opera people, when Opera used its own engine. I still use Firefox but if I ever switched it would probably be to Vivaldi.
It’s all Chromium, the same browser.
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Firefox still isn’t chrome.
I know, i use firefox
I use Vivaldi and it works fine for me. You can block ads and trackers and it’s fast.
That’s all I need.
I’ve been using it for a while because I like the forward and back arrows at the bottom and Firefox on Android was doing some weird stuff (freezing up and whatnot) at one point.
It’s the best Chromium browser. Company seems like it’s run by decent people who listen to their users.
Wait what’s wrong with Brave? Is there drama?!
Nothing wrong with brave, people being overly dramatic about issues with the founder.
The founder was literally kicked out of Mozilla for being a bigot and Brave is funded by Peter Theil, crypto nonsense, and ads.
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Nothing, it’s actually a very fine browser with a very capable adblocker.
EDIT: aaand instant downvote from Mozilla shills or drama queens lol
I know we aren’t allowed to use Chrome.
Who says? Use whatever you want, if you want to use Chrome then use it, nobody is stopping you.
As for Vivaldi, I personally think it’s the best Chromium browser out there, highly customizable with all the good stuff from old Opera without none of the garbage from current Opera, plus it seems to be reasonably respectful of your privacy. Their only mistake was building it on Chromium.
I agree, I really liked its design and featureset. But after the third time I got a crash that deleted absolutely all browser data, as if it had been re-installed, I had to ditch it. It happened months apart, with no warning. I just open it one day and everything is gone. Not cool.
You can use whatever you want, tbh, you’ll just be judged. What browser is best really depends on what’s important for you.
In terms of features and functionality, Vivaldi is on a league of it’s own. No other mainstream browser can compete. Edge from Microsoft takes the second place (no, really). Everything else is far behind on third place. (I don’t know about opera though, haven’t seen it in a decade)
In terms of privacy, the picture is very different. Also depends on what you consider to be an invasion of privacy (is phoning-home bad? Is telemetry bad? Is allowing cookies bad?) some browsers do one, others do others. If everything is bad, then Firefox is the king here.
If you don’t care about any of that and wants something that just works, maybe safari I guess?
Any recommendation you get here will usually take in account what the recommenders’ think is important but your opinion might be different.
Ps: Chromium bases browsers don’t necessarily pack in everything that Google does. Most of them are actually forks that still get to have a say in what they do or don’t.
Note: while presently only available for mac, I would stick the Arc browser in the league of Vivaldi and Edge. While less customizable than Vivaldi, the level of workspace and tab management it brings are unprecedented.
Arc is incredible. I can’t wait for it to come to Windows
