What is your favorite browser? Feel free to share why.

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    @[email protected]

    Firefox because it isn’t chromium, and I just like it. With chromium, google controls the web. Doesn’t matter what kind of wrapper a third party puts on it. It’s still chromium and it’s still google.

  • MostlyTato@mstdn.social
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    @[email protected]

    I currently use:

    Firefox on the desktop
    Librewolf on the Linux laptop
    Waterfox on my main phone

    Vivaldi on my other persona on desktop, laptop and second phone.

    Also going to try Floop and Zen.

    Ostensibly I want to use Firefox forks but I find Vivaldi pretty cool despite being Chromium, especially on mobile.

    TBH, none of them are ideal. I’d love to have one browser with multiple profiles across multiple devices, but I find that doesn’t work for me.

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    @[email protected] I like Zen browser because it comes with vertical tabs, screenshot feature, and familiar dev tools.

    Moreover, unlike Safari, it works well on macOS and Slack notification. When I checked my Slack tab on Safari, I usually found that it didn’t load the page yet although I didn’t shutdown or restart the computer.

  • Crystal@social.vivaldi.net
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    @[email protected] I choose Vivaldi as my favorite because I like many things about it. I use my home computer now for recipes, cash spreadsheets, and a shopping list. I had not previously used social media and this is a nice surprise for me to enjoy it. I used Netscape before Metacrawler and then I used shelves of books until trying Firefox. I used Chrome then Edge before I retired, but used Firefox and DuckDuckGo on home computers until I noticed Vivaldi about two years ago and put it on my home computer and laptop and cellphone. I like its many options and features and forums full of answers to questions I might ever need ask! It gives me a calendar and note and task pads and all sorts of things which optionally can sync and be seen when I use the browser on my cellphone or to choose not to sync. The very best is, when I removed Windows Operating System from my old laptop and replaced it with one of the Linux distributions now this Vivaldi continues to give me my familiar user experience. Thank you, to all and everyone who is and who are responsible for allowing me this user experience which followed me between operating systems, thank you.

  • I use Vivaldi but I would really like to see more attention to quality. Breaking things randomly in minor releases and then taking half a year to fix them is not okay, guys. A public issue tracker would also help, instead of the scream-into-the-void bug report form. I understand that you’ve taken everything from the old Opera team, but this part should’ve been left behind.

  • Jeff MacKinnon@bluenoser.me
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    @[email protected] I’ve been using Vivaldi lately, but I also like Firefox and Librewolf. However the internet today feels like that of 2000, so many websites only work with todays IE (Chrome), so yeah, the options are either Chromium or Gecko; and the latter doesn’t work for all websites.

    It’s a very sad state of affairs.

    @[email protected]

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    @[email protected] only now noticed your handle and who you are…and “Feel free to share why.”

    For me having an alternative rendering engine is a key reason to stay loyal to Firefox.

    So no vivaldi for me though I trust you if you’d say it’s wonderful in many other aspects (like features and privacy).

      • Vile Lasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place
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        @[email protected] It IS pretty good, sure. At the very least it doesn’t randomly block my own collabora server unlike uBlock Origin.

        But ultimately it’s just not good enough. So the day I can’t run uBlock Origin, my browsing experience will be immediately horrible

        This is VERY MUCH a deal breaker. Overnight the browser will become essentially unusable. And I know because I use the mobile version already where I can’t install an adblocker and… yeah, it sucks