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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mozilla is shitty, so you're opting for Google instead? That's like saying the air quality is bad, and opting to jump in the ocean and drown.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I said I moved back to LibreWolf (Firefox fork)

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

Oh sorry, my reading comprehension is clearly lacking :P I've been eyeing LibreWolf for a while, but I'm mostly too lazy to switch my addons over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I made the same mistake lol, thought OC said he moved to Vivaldi and previously tried librewolf

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

@Evkob @Gargari, this is not so clear, Mozilla has made a pact with the devil some years ago and is sponsored by Google, it even employs several Google devs who develop FF, the risk of depending on outside investors. Chromium is certainly from Google, but it is, just like Gecko, FOSS and therefore every browser developer is free to gut it, throwing out any Google API, which they are doing in Vivaldi (leaving some to the user's choice in settings), no homecalls to Google.
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/a-dangerous-conflict-of-interest-between-firefox-and-google/

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

FWIW, Vivaldi attracts a lot of the FF power users that updates like Quantum abandoned. Vivaldi honestly wipes the floor with Firefox feature-wise especially for tab organisation, but the fact it's Chromium might push some people away.

It would've been nice if they used Gecko, but eh. I went from FF to Vivaldi to now, the Firefox fork Pulse. It's a bit janky sometimes, but with native vertical tabs and the Simple Tab Groups add-on I love it enough to use it as my main browser, and there's little to no bloat. There's also Floorp, another Firefox fork, this time from a Japanese community, which AFAIK predates Pulse and is inspired by Vivaldi, implementing some of its features like Tab Workspaces. Worth mentioning for those wanting a more Vivaldi-like experience.