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If browsers are like fashion, Firefox is a well-tailored suit. Never out of style.
@imaqtpie @The_Picard_Maneuver, in Vivaldi you can create your own style to your like and need, or also download one of te more than 3500 user made themes.
https://themes.vivaldi.net
Yeah, Vivaldi is the best chromium-based browser. Personally, I use it a secondary for sites that were made to only display right on chromium browsers. Librewolf, a privacy-focused fork of Firefox, is the one I use as a main browser.
@TheGreatFox, Librewolf is a good choice, but instead of a FF fork (Firefox also has a good privacy, but not so Mozilla), I prefer the Otter Browser. Mozilla in last years it has become a Google Mascot and is sponsored by it. When you need to sync your data, Mozilla shared it with Alphabet, googleanalytics and googletagmanager.
Anyway the privacy depends more on the search engine you use and your common sense, than on the Browser itself (only if you not use Chrome, EDGE or Opera)
@TheGreatFox, anyway in privacy you always have to make compromises, for example when I set my privacy to the maximum in Vivaldi, I have as a counterpart that many pages do not work or are unreadable. What we have to avoid is exposing private data and not so much technical data (OS, screen resolution, country by public IP (we can only hide this last with a VPN), things like this that need many pages to work as espected and do not identify you personally).
Vivaldi looks cool, and I have heard tell that Mozilla is far from its former glory, but my user experience on Firefox is excellent so I have no reason to switch
@imaqtpie, that is the point, the best browser is the one which suits the best your needs and use.
Apart of Vivaldi as main browser, I also have Firefox and the Otter Browser for test reasons (f.Exmpl to see if an isue is due to Chromium or general, FF with Gecko and Otter with Qt5)
Yeah for sure. You're much more advanced than I am, let's just say it's not a coincidence that I'm on sh.itjust.works 😅
@imaqtpie, I don't think so, I only a normal user with the experience since my first modem with 56k.
Vivaldi since 7 years, which fits all my needs, due it's more a Internet suite than a browser, with all the funcionality you mauy need, without using extensions, apart of the end2end encrypted sync with Vivaldi Mobile, without sharing userdata to Google (Alphabet), what Mozilla does.
Does it have adblock?
This is objectively false. The best browser is the one that gets the job done and doesn't have endless absolutely terrible security vulnerabilities (e.g. IE before they switched to Edge which is just Chrome) or intentionally leaks your private information (e.g. Edge leaking every site you visit to Bing and Chrome doing the same but with Google).
Also, from a performance perspective "the best" is obviously objectively measurable and Firefox just took the crown which is what the post is all about. Realistically though both Chrome and Firefox have had completely acceptable levels of performance (imperceptible differences to normal humans) for like a decade. So it's probably not that big a deal.
A bigger deal for normies using their browser IMHO is memory utilization which is a much bigger factor than, "how fast does the browser load and run HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?" Just ask Google how much more memory efficient Firefox is! LOL
https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=firefox+vs+chrome+memory+utilization