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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

PSA: The old Opera guys have a new browser, Vivaldi.

It's quite nice and I use it daily.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huge fan of Vivaldi for both pc and mobile!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe a tiny bit unstable and proprietary, but I don't think they have had any controversies or shady action.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. I daily drive Vivaldi on both macOS and Android.

I love it. The sidebar is a great feature; I stash my extension icons there. The theme is highly customizable; I have mine set to something similar to the Opera dark theme.

I don't use the email or calendar features. The great thing about Vivaldi is that they provide a ton of power user features, but don't shove it in your face. It's super easy to turn off the things you don't want and to turn on the things you do want.

I do use UBO, but they also have a builtin ad blocker if you want to use that instead.

The settings page is very extensive. Tons of customization. True to the Opera legacy!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The sidebar is a great feature; I stash my extension icons there.

That's amazing, I didn't know you could do that. I've been using Vivaldi since the alpha days and I had no clue you could drag the extensions there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I keep revisiting Vivaldi once every few months, and get reminded of why I uninstall it within minutes. They remove the option of changing DNS servers from the configuration UI and moved it into flags. I have absolutely no idea why they do that, and its a philosophy I vehemently disagree with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vivaldi has the best tab management ever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I thought until I installed Firefox with Sidebery and oh man, that's another level. It required quite a bit of configuration make it really fit my needs, but when you configure it, it's incredible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for telling me about sidebery!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a rebranded chromium with some extra bloat. Just like his older brother Chinese Chromium, Opera, and their edgy cousin, Microsoft Chromium. All following the example of Papa Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget about their outdated-hIpster friend, Brave Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Acting like all these forks are just chrome is really disingenuous and isn’t helping the conversation at all.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/10742158329613-What-does-Brave-remove-from-the-Chromium-engine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's just another flavour of Chromium though isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Much more UI customization and a shitton of power user stuff too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair, site compatibility is needed for my work so I unfortunately must use chromium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Quit the job, work in Firefox only environments, send the message /s