It’s been twenty-three years since the day Phoenix was released, the web browser that eventually became Firefox. I downloaded it on the first day and installed it on my trusty HP Omnibook 800…
  • riley@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    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!!

      • riley@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        3 minutes ago

        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.

    • paper_moon@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 hours 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.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 hours 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.

  • Stefen Auris@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    There are options if you want something like Firefox without the AI nonsense like waterfox and librewolf.

  • Einar@lemmy.zip
    4·
    9 hours ago

    I feel the author. I loved Firefox. Then it went downhill and I used Vivaldi for years.

    I stick to Firefox again (Floorp, to be precise, Zen browser when I want to chill) just for diversity’s sake and I’m fine with that.

    Still, I am sad that Vivaldi runs with Chromium at it’s core.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    9 hours ago

    I enjoyed Vivaldi for a bit.

    But the second time I opened it to find my tabs, browsing history, and literally all other user data, gone… Months apart, with thousands of saved bookmarks and hundreds of tabs lost each time.

    I never went back. Deleting everything is just completely unacceptable.

    I never found anyone else who’d had it happen, but twice was a pattern I didn’t care to repeat.

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    8 hours ago

    i love firefox and librewolf but ive been using vivaldi more and more since their no ai stance combined with the fact theyre not a us company is really nice. you can also add adblock compatable filterlists to the built in tracker too. just wish they enabled extensions on mobile :(