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There are cool answers to “what are you replacing Firefox with?”
A Blink-based browser is such a lame answer. It just contributes to furthering Google’s control over the space.
Thanks for the reminder to toss the Servo project some money. There needs to be another competitor to Chromium.
So he traded Firefox for… basically Chromium.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
Me, I’m sticking with LibreWolf. If Mozilla collapses, I hope they can keep on going without them.
Isn’t LibreWolf just Firefox with a preconfigured profile?
There are options if you want something like Firefox without the AI nonsense like waterfox and librewolf.
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.
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.
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 :(
