• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    As a supporter of Firefox and FOSS, the closed-source, Chromium-based Vivaldi is my guilty pleasure. It has the best UI experience I’ve found on a browser, and the company behind it doesn’t seem to be very evil.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah the founders are ex-Opera devs who left after the company was acquired by Qihoo 360, and the power user UI features are leagues ahead of other browsers I’ve tried. I wish Firefox developer edition would embrace of a philosophy of a more customizable UI centered around power users

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      1 month ago

      Leaving Vivaldi was a sad moment for me. That UI, the settings, those features…! Goodness. I’m an enjoyer of bells and whistles, and Vivaldi’s got all of them and then some.

      The folks working on it seem straight up great. Did you know they also host a mastodon instance? Literally my only issue with it is the engine, and that just so unluckily happens to be a deal breaker.