Gregory's ServerI dumped Chrome a few years ago and switched to Firefox. Now I'm thinking it may be time to dump Firefox as well. So, what do I use? Any suggestions? What about Vivaldi?
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@dangoodin Vivaldi has been fantastic for me, personally. I understand the concerns about it not being open source. But it's a product and project that works quite well, and its monetization plan is tolerable to me.  @dangoodin I've been on Vivaldi for years now, and very happy with it. They're going to support Manifest v2 as long as possible (it'll stay in Chromium for another year or so for enterprise use). They're got a built-in ad-blocker (which is also very good), and are explicitly anti-cryptoscam and anti-AI. @dangoodin They're also fully embracing the fediverse, running their own public Masto server at social.vivaldi.net. @drsbaitso @dangoodin I used Vivaldi ages ago but had to give it up because unresponsive pages seemed to cause the entire browser UI to lock up. Eventually I got fed up. Have you ever experienced that? And do you still? Maybe it's time I give it another go. @dangoodin Really, there is no escape. I mean this seriously. As you move to less popular browsers from smaller companies, you tend to risk different sorts of failure modes and security problems. @dangoodin @dangoodin A bunch of us dorks use Brave. The built-in ad-blocking is legit. The dude that made it was a cofounder of Firefox and was disappointed in how user data was being used.  @griff @dangoodin Yeah. He was also disappointed that the Mozilla userbase and (I think) staff failed to share his explicit anti-LGBTQ stance.  @griff @dangoodin I thought he "left" because having an openly homophobic bigot among the leadership wasn't a good look. Brave is a hard no for me for a few reasons, most notably: (1) the founder is hostile to gay rights, aka human rights and (2) the browser promotes that whole cryptocurrency ponzi scheme mythology.  @dangoodin LibreWolf has been quite excellent to me so far: https://librewolf.net/  @dangoodin Slim pickings if you want to use an alternative rendering engine that’s not Blink / Chromium. I’ve tried Vivaldi and it’s not bad, but I find it’s window drawing to be dog slow on macOS, so I’m staying with Firefox. @dangoodin I've been using Vivaldi for about a year now. Works great on all the platforms that I'm using - Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android  @dangoodin My main browser is Safari, but my backup switched from Firefox to Vivaldi. Too soon to have much of an opinion, but it seems fine so far.   @dangoodin I think it will be important that Firefox engine doesn't die, even if we can't support Mozilla anymore. So I'm going to try and stay on FF derivatives for now.  @dangoodin I use Safari, which seems a reasonable first choice if you’re on a mac. Safari will sometimes glitch, like refusing to see captchas or other issues tied to my security settings and setup. If Safari glitches, I use Vivaldi and it’s been great.  @dangoodin team Vivaldi here bût if you’re more a Firefox engine person you should try Zen !  @dangoodin if I was doing that switch I'd probably run with LibreWolf or WaterFox just as the most active of the Firefox forks. You want something that's actively and rapidly updated to address things like the recent zero day.  @dangoodin@infosec.exchange Vivaldi ain't fully open source, only the engine itself is, UI/UX isn't. But it's enough for me and I love it. Very customizable, built-in adblocker, no tracking by default like in Firefox with all these switches in the settings, etc. @dangoodin@infosec.exchange btw I too did pretty much start to use Vivaldi as my primary browser after all of the shit that Mozilla has done recently :D  |
@dangoodin We should all just go back to using lynx.