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With FireFox becoming more and more unusable, does anybody with experience know if Vivaldi or Brave are objectively better (or faster or more stable)?
Congrats to Vivaldi! There is a good interview with Vivaldi founder on Tedium [1] where he basically says that because most browsers are built on Chromium nowadays, you have to innovate on features and that is the direction they took. And really the number of features in Vivaldi is staggering including some great ones like Tab Stacking and Tab Tiling. But adding this many features took a toll on performance and it is…
Is the UI still as horribly laggy? I try vivaldi every other year because people say it's faster, but it's almost as if those people only run that beast on a desktop or fully specced 15" laptops
Themes and the translation panel are the highlights according to their blog. And speed improvements.[1] [1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-5-0-desktop-themes-translat...
"Speed improvements" in every release but there must be something about the way the browser is implemented that just kills performance/efficiency vs other Chromium browsers. Even a basic test like Speedometer 2.0 shoots out that DOM manipulations are 75% the speed of the same benchmark on Chrome, what on earth is it doing to cause that? The interface is great but between performance and bugs I've never been able to s…
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/f9ui2b/is_t...
Congrats to Vivaldi! There is a good interview with Vivaldi founder on Tedium [1] where he basically says that because most browsers are built on Chromium nowadays, you have to innovate on features and that is the direction they took. And really the number of features in Vivaldi is staggering including some great ones like Tab Stacking and Tab Tiling. But adding this many features took a toll on performance and it is…
Is the UI still as horribly laggy? I try vivaldi every other year because people say it's faster, but it's almost as if those people only run that beast on a desktop or fully specced 15" laptops
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I wouldn't be surprised if that because Vivaldi had/has a corporate MS service using the domain in some way. E.g. if I test with one of my personal domains with MX records/email configured it continues just fine, if I test with one of my personal domains without email configure it continues just fine, if I try to create a personal account using my work's domain (tied to O365) it blocks it. So it's not that you can on…
Ok, good.. Then vivaldi.net is specifically blacklisted then. I checked and vivaldi.net is their community, everyone can sign up for email, whereas vivaldi.com is their "commercial" email domain. Both hosted in Iceland with valid MX that has got nothing to do with o365...
Fun fact, Microsoft (Skype) will not accept user@vivaldi.net as a personal email address for new accounts. It needs to be gmail/yahoo/outlook etc. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FETZDicXEAEjlSQ?format=jpg&name=...
This seems to be a new trend - even IBM doesn't allow you to create accounts with non-American / non-BigTech email IDs (for their free cloud offering). Makes you wonder what is going on behind the scenes.
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Is this still true of v5?
That's where I pulled the 75% result from just now, not sure if it's as systemic as it was originally as that's where I gave up bothering to test further this time.
It's a small price to pay for a browser that lets me configure the UI the way I want it. If Chrome supported tabs on the side as well as Vivaldi, even with an extension, I might not have switched. The rest of the configurability is just gravy for me.
Fun fact, Microsoft (Skype) will not accept user@vivaldi.net as a personal email address for new accounts. It needs to be gmail/yahoo/outlook etc. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FETZDicXEAEjlSQ?format=jpg&name=...