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[–] fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de 1 points 20 minutes ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I have no favourite browser anymore since Opera 12. I don't want to support the Chromium dominance but Firefox still feels clunky. I have some sympathy for the Zen browser project. And then there's Vivaldi, with a lot of stuff I appreciated when I was still using Opera. But … Chromium, you know 🤷.

[–] anomis66@mastodon.me.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I run with @Waterfox@mastodon.social and @brave@mastodon.social on my daily machines, but have access to #Opera, #Edge, #Firefox and #Chrome for UI testing.

[–] Lingmops@topspicy.social 1 points 3 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox Focus on iOS. Refuses everything by default. Has a “delete session” button.

[–] slims@famichiki.jp 1 points 4 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net @kazuhito@vivaldi.net Waterfox and Qutebrowser!

[–] labria@social.yeschenko.com 2 points 5 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I’m currently trying Zen, which is FF inside and Arc outside, basically.
Re: why, I think Chrome is the new IE6, and we need more engines to keep the web open

[–] array@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 5 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net 日本語で書きます。翻訳サイトなど使ってください。
Firefoxは唯一日本語IMEの動作を正しく行ってくれます。なので文節などの変換が見やすく、安心できます。拡張が多くても不安定になりにくいです。Quantumは正しい判断だったと思います。

Chromium系(Elctronも)IMEの処理がおざなりで点線出しとけはいいだろうとしかとれない動作画面です。たまに文節区切りを見失いますし変なところになることがあります。

あとは垂直タブがあるかどうかで、その垂直タブもタブ同士の親子関係が表せられないと意味がないです。
ということでFirefox+Tree Style Tabが使いやすく、その次にVivaldiが来ます。

[–] codemacabre@social.coop 1 points 5 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net

General usage: LibreWolf
Dev: Polypane by @Kilian@mastodon.social

[–] Meznor@mstdn.social 1 points 5 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I use duckduckgo

[–] fredbrooker@witter.cz 1 points 8 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net as Linux based devs are just ~3 % of all users, it has no meaning for the overall picture 😂

[–] fredbrooker@witter.cz 1 points 8 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I like the hypocrisy of open source community as everybody uses Firefox and the overall usage is under 3 %

[–] Busyvar@jlai.lu 1 points 8 hours ago

Sometimes i take Vimb for lighter browsing, but for the most time i stay attached to Firefox for the whole browsing experience and sync my tablet, laptop & smartphone with it.

[–] fredbrooker@witter.cz 1 points 9 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Chrome and Brave - I don't care about Google as we pay a lot of money for SaaS by Google, there's no alternative to

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[–] juuro@mstdn.social 1 points 17 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Safari because it’s fast, reliable, has a beautiful design, fits well in the Apple ecosystem and it’s not Chromium!

[–] silvermoon82@wandering.shop 1 points 18 hours ago

@jon@vivaldi.net
Vivaldi is my daily driver, looking into Librewolf as my not-Chrome.
What I'd really like is the Vivaldi shell, as & tracker blocking, etc, with the Firefox HTML & js engines. No google or moz bullshit, just a nice clean shell and engines.

[–] Rhababerbarbar@tux.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net

#Firefox got a ton of variants/forks recently.

  • #Librewolf
  • #MullvadBrowser
  • #ZenBrowser
  • #Midori

So yeah I take Firefox + Arkenfox user.js or Librewolf if they fixed their CI/CD

[–] Busyvar@jlai.lu 2 points 8 hours ago

TIL Midori migrated to Gecko in 2019

@jon@vivaldi.net After dropping Opera, I now mostly use Waterfox. Vivaldi is also on my desktop and laptop. But so is Brave, Firefox and DuckDuckGO. Edge is also on there, but only because MS won't allow me to remove it :(

@jon@vivaldi.net
Just wish Google was not used in vivaldi , so when I don't want their influence I use ddg . if there is a way to keep Google completely out of Vivaldi. I'd like to know how.
Thanks MTT

[–] Jeff@bluenoser.me 1 points 1 day ago

@jon 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.

@Karen5Lund

[–] andrewc@masto.ai 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I started to really like ARC until recently when I heard they are focusing on a new project. Then I would say Firefox and Safari

[–] josh@vickerson.me 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox, despite Mozilla’s current trajectory because the Chromium monopoly will ultimately harm the web.

Hope to use @servo@floss.social someday 🤞

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I use chrome because I have a chromebook right now, but when I'm running Linux its librewolf

[–] TheExecEditor@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Brave, as you get a Chromium experience without Google nasties and a built in ad/tracker blocker

[–] omxxi@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

#Firefox because of Multi-Account Containers

[–] eilegz@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox, because its the only real alternative to chrome and its clones, firefox its still the most customizable browser, vivaldi its the second, but the biggest con of vivaldi feels that its the slower among chrome clones

[–] chris@social.losno.co 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox is my favorite when I can use it, but at least on my new Mac, I found Firefox was misbehaving for inexplicable reasons. Shrug, I don’t mind Safari that much, and for when AdGuard for Safari isn’t working, I also have AdGuard Home running on my home network.

[–] AndiFFM@mstdn.social 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Different Browsers for different situations

  • Safari
  • Edge
  • Brave
[–] nicomede@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox for the gecko engine vs the overwhelming power (and use) of Chrome's Blink.

[–] scott@typetura.social 2 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Arc, with spaces, profiles, boosts, and really considered design decisions, it works really well for what I do.

[–] ianjs@aus.social 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net

I'm pretty sure this just reflects "people who know what a browser is", or least "people who know enough about browsers to have an opinion".

@jon@vivaldi.net Pale Moon. It's single-process, so if something goes wrong, I can kill the browser simply. It supports the plugins and extensions I need, want, and use on a daily basis. It doesn't support DRM, RTC, or the concepts pushed on us by DoubleClick. I'm very happy with the browser.

[–] ingolftopf@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@jon
Many, many comments here. :tony_laughing:

So a lot of interest in this question.
No wonder really, here on 'Mastodon'.

Veery good. :tony_wee:

Maybe someone else is interested in digging through here. ;-) ;-)

I'm sure several people will take a closer look at the 'Vivaldiserve' afterwards.
https://vivaldi.com/

:tony_smiling: :tony_happy:

[–] veer66@mstdn.in.th 4 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net 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.

[–] iqaluit@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net LibreWolf for privacy &
Vivaldi for functionality

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

LibreWolf and Mull. I did use Chromium recently for a web-based GrapheneOS install, that was kind of cool.

https://privacytests.org/android.html

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

LibreWolf and Mull. I did use Chromium recently for a web-based GrapheneOS install, that was kind of cool.

https://privacytests.org/android.html

[–] dandandin@mastodon.uno 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Edge because it's the only one on the market that has an option to:

  1. Ask if you want to open or save the download
  2. If the user wants to open it without saving, it saves it in a temporary directory
  3. Automatically deletes that downloaded file when closing the browser

I like to keep my downloads folder clean, sorry 😢

[–] lxskllr@mastodon.world 6 points 2 days ago

@jon@vivaldi.net

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.

[–] ingolftopf@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@jon@vivaldi.net
Because 'Vivaldi' is simply the world's best browser for me.

Especially on 'Linux'.
And has been for a long time.

I think it's also worth taking a closer look at the 'Vivaldiserve' behind it. ;-)

Currently Firefox in first place, then Safari just ahead of Vivaldi here. :tony_unhappy:

I think many people here have simply not yet looked at Vivaldi for all platforms.
Based on 'Chromium', 100% open source.

:tony_happy: :tony_smiling: :tony_wee:

[–] MostlyTato@mstdn.social 4 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net

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.

[–] miquel@warhammer.social 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Zen Browser @zenbrowser@fosstodon.org

[–] joschtl@karlsruhe-social.de 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net #Firefox, because not Chrome.

[–] MarieClaudeS@mastodon.top 1 points 1 day ago

@jon@vivaldi.net logiciel libre, respect de la vie privée, non inféodé aux GAFAM

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