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So Long Firefox, Hello Vivaldi (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 month ago by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] riley@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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!!

[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] The_Grim_Dreamer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does Vivaldi match Firefox for adblocking ability? That's always been my highest priority when it comes to browsers.

[–] riley@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] The_Grim_Dreamer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

First you had my curiosity, now you have my attention. Home pi-hole is something I've been meaning to look into.