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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is Vivaldi good? I've heard it's like the old Opera, which I used to love (I used Opera from 2003 until around when they switched to Chromium, 2012ish)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I used to use it and I liked it quite a bit, I even replaced my gmail accounts with vivaldi.net accounts, though I may migrate to proton sometime. I use Firefox exclusively but if I needed to use a chromium-based browser, that’s the one I’d use. I’m not a power user by any stretch so my opinion probably has less weight than those of others on here, but that’s my two cents anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i like vivaldi a lot :) mostly because of its UI and extremely easy in-depth customization. in my opinion it is the greatest-looking web browser (if you don’t factor in all the css fiddling you can do in a text editor with firefox, of course. but even then i don’t recall seeing any custom firefox user style that looked better than vivaldi to me).

the reason why i switched away from vivaldi and back to firefox after ~2 years of straight usage was that vivaldi had a weird performance bug for me where if i had too many tabs open for too many days in a row (laptop, no shutdown), it would randomly start freezing and i’d have to restart it. but when it was running on a fresh start, it was amazing. also the more ethical choice of using a non-chromium browser was part of the reason

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

it would randomly start freezing and i’d have to restart it. but when it was running on a fresh start, it was amazing

Weird, that's the exact problem I had on my old desktop and have on my laptop with Firefox. Both were 8gigs of memory and I figured out that the freezing coincided with memory being depleted. My new desktop has, funnily enough, no problems with its 32gigs of memory. I need to purchase a new ram block for my laptop...

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

yeah I switched to Vivaldi from Firefox after a few years. was just sick of the incompatibility issues