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Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by monooso »

adrian_b wrote: post #67
MaXtreeM wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always see these kind of comments, that many sites don't work in Firefox while they do in Chrome. When I encounter a broken site I always also check it in Chrome but the times where it is actually a browser's fault is like once a year. Usually it is some blocking of cookies or something that I have enabled in Firefox. Even sites from Google which everyone seems to describe that they are specifically made to work on…

Perhaps you use Firefox on Windows. Firefox on Linux has much more problems than Firefox on Windows, mostly because it does not support many GPUs, so it frequently disables WebGL or it cannot use hardware support for playing videos, even now, in 2026. This breaks many sites. Unlike Firefox, the Linux versions of Vivaldi/Chromium/Chrome do not appear to have any deficiencies in comparison with their Windows versions.

That has not been my experience of Firefox on Linux.

Whenever I encounter a broken site, it's because I blocked some advertising scripts and the whole thing fell apart with a slew of JavaScript errors. I'm quite happy to avoid such shoddy sites.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by dncornholio »

yard2010 wrote: post #64

Guys use Vivaldi. It's a present. A browser that has a sustainable business model and interests that reconcile with the user interests - consume the web as god intended, with no literally aids and cancer ads out of the box. I switched a while ago from Firefox and while the UI is.. different, it's been a great experience. In my opinion this project and the great people behind it must be the leaders of this industry, a…

aids and cancer, seriously?

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by slig »

yard2010 wrote: post #64

Guys use Vivaldi. It's a present. A browser that has a sustainable business model and interests that reconcile with the user interests - consume the web as god intended, with no literally aids and cancer ads out of the box. I switched a while ago from Firefox and while the UI is.. different, it's been a great experience. In my opinion this project and the great people behind it must be the leaders of this industry, a…

Closed source and based on Webkit? At least Brave is open source.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by mplanchard »

adrian_b wrote: post #19

With Firefox, especially with Firefox on Linux, which always had and still has poor GPU support, I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all. So I must keep a backup browser, which is normally Vivaldi, because typically any site that works in Chrome also works in Vivaldi. Moreover, Vivaldi has a great advantage over both Firefox and Chrome, in it the command to print a Web page usual…

Firefox Linux user (wayland) here. I can’t remember the last time I had a browser issue or had to open an alternative browser.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by gilrain »

RedShift1 wrote: post #70
adrian_b wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps you use Firefox on Windows. Firefox on Linux has much more problems than Firefox on Windows, mostly because it does not support many GPUs, so it frequently disables WebGL or it cannot use hardware support for playing videos, even now, in 2026. This breaks many sites. Unlike Firefox, the Linux versions of Vivaldi/Chromium/Chrome do not appear to have any deficiencies in comparison with their Windows versions.

Which is not Firefox's fault. It's up to the operating system to provide a stable API to make things like this work.

> Unlike Firefox, the Linux versions of Vivaldi/Chromium/Chrome do not appear to have any deficiencies

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by fransje26 »

mplanchard wrote: post #94
adrian_b wrote: post #19

With Firefox, especially with Firefox on Linux, which always had and still has poor GPU support, I frequently encounter sites that do not work well or they do not work at all. So I must keep a backup browser, which is normally Vivaldi, because typically any site that works in Chrome also works in Vivaldi. Moreover, Vivaldi has a great advantage over both Firefox and Chrome, in it the command to print a Web page usual…

Firefox Linux user (wayland) here. I can’t remember the last time I had a browser issue or had to open an alternative browser.

Same here, with X11.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by kavok »

slig wrote: post #93
yard2010 wrote: post #64

Guys use Vivaldi. It's a present. A browser that has a sustainable business model and interests that reconcile with the user interests - consume the web as god intended, with no literally aids and cancer ads out of the box. I switched a while ago from Firefox and while the UI is.. different, it's been a great experience. In my opinion this project and the great people behind it must be the leaders of this industry, a…

Closed source and based on Webkit? At least Brave is open source.

I’m pretty sure Brave and Vivaldi are both based on Chromium/Blink not WebKit.

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by gib444 »

ahofmann wrote: post #6

Vivaldi is the browser, where I always wonder why it doesn't get mentioned in all the privacy enhanced browsers. It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems. Also the company behind Vivaldi is not in USA/China/Russia, which also helps from my point of view.

Privacy enhanced? lol. Install the Android version (similar to desktop I imagine):

- The choice in the wizard defaults to no blocking of ads and trackers

- Third Party cookies enabled by default

- WebRTC IP leaking is the default

- No option not to persist history/permanent incognito mode

Etc

I imagine it leaks your list of extensions just like chromium too

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by gilrain »

isodev wrote: post #46
turblety wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's a proprietary closed source fork of Google Chromium. There's nothing to trust. If it's free and closed source, you are the product.

> you are the product Then we need to have a discussion about that because in case of Vivaldi you are in fact not the product.

> in case of Vivaldi you are in fact not the product

I’m really curious what gave you this impression. Vivaldi doesn’t hide its business model, yet you were so confident!

Re: Vivaldi 8.0

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Post by slig »

kavok wrote: post #97
slig wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Closed source and based on Webkit? At least Brave is open source.

I’m pretty sure Brave and Vivaldi are both based on Chromium/Blink not WebKit.

Thanks, that's what I get for commenting before the coffee kicks in.
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