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Who uses chrome anyway even there's vivaldi
Give me some of that closed source browser goodness, yes. Vivaldi and Chrome are the same thing from a privacy perspective precisely because you cannot verify that they're not.
Although you could take into account what the makers are telling you. You have to trust someone, and at least to my knowledge, Google fails and it's all over the news, Vivaldi has not. It's not like I can validate the Firefox source either, I'm just trusting the website I download it from, or more likely my distro packaging. And people do look at call outs browsers make etc.
Google claims Chrome is private too.
Becauae not many gives a fuck about Vivaldi enough to reverse engineer it
You don't have to. Thousand of people who know what they're doing does.
This is a separate security, not privacy, issue resolved by trust chain model of distro packaging.
Of course, I'm screwed anyway because there's not reasonable competition in the phone space, and I have to use Microsoft products for work, and... {insert a dozen more things here}. Given all that, I'd like the browser that works better for me.
Trusting a company to do right by you (for unknown reasons) vs. trusting thousands of independent researchers who have no incentive to wrong you. Though pick, I guess.
Choose a Firefox-based browser instead for open source.
Who uses vivaldi anyway even there’s firefox
I just can't use a browser so... primitive? I wold gladly change to Firefox if it gave me all the customisation options Vivaldi has. Mouse gestures, synchronising my settings across 2 PCs and an android phone, shortcuts to different searchers etc. Plus it would need to be visually customisable so od doesn't irritate me every couple of minutes.
It sounds like perhaps you haven't looked into Firefox for a while, because out of the box it does all of the things you listed, except for gestures. There are multiple popular plugins that provide Firefox gestures easily. I'm not sure what visual customizations you're referring to, but Firefox also has had support for themes for ages now.
2 finger swipe to the left or right is the gesture to go back and forward, don't know what other gestures you'd need.
The "cradle" for going forward and backwards plus swipes for closing a tab, refreshing and opening a new tab.
My problem is - last time I looked, which was a while ago to be fair - there weren't good tab management plugins that also supported tab title search, a list of tabs to easily close ones I didn't need anymore with ctrl+click or shift+click, no session management, problems with cross window tab viewing/searching, no tab stacks, and now workspaces are kind of awesome for me too.
I'm not saying there aren't extensions for each thing, I'm saying I could NOT get them all to work together, and have a fast performant browser without weird hangs, and the UI was kind of all over the place and hard to remember cause none of the extensions were designed to work together from what I could tell.
What I don't get is why Vivaldi didn't code on top of Firefox, but I think it's because there are sites that work in chromium and don't in Firefox, and fail silently - and just like in IE6 days, they're sites like my parents retirement site, they can't NOT use them.
I don't care for themes, just need night mode. I need the option to throw out any taskbars except fot tabs and address bar. Including any search window. I need a zoom slider at the bottom right corner, and this is a must. It's also nice to have these things built in instead of looking for extensions. And You are right, o haven't looked into Firefox for a long time.
To paraphrase ' a Chrome by any other name would smell as sweet'
why are people that allergic to firefox?
vivaldi is chrome with extra steps
Mostly because the browsing experience IMO is much much worse with Firefox. I tried extensions to get functionality back, it made it worse - slower, buggy, extensions would stop being developed etc. I wish Firefox was better, I really do. But IME it's frozen functionality like it's 2010 or so. Like, they have tabs, who hoo. I really find save/restore, multi window control, tab stacks, sessions, workspaces, and easy UI config pretty important in day to day use. That said, I also think ads are a deal breaker, but I really wonder if this won't bring back some of the ad-blocking proxies you run locally or something.
Or, someone forks chromium to keep Manifest v2 or whatever.
Vivaldi doesn't have to use v3, Brave won't. If Vivaldi does upgrade to v3, that should tell you something.
those are all things that don't exist on most browsers without many extensions
I use both Firefox and Chrome-based browsers and I haven't come across any major differences in functionality. What are all these things Chrome can do that Firefox can't?
Browser Wars!!!!!!!!!