i was using librewolf, but it kept freezing.
going back to "ungoogled chromium" however illegal it is.
is vivaldi better?
i remeber trying it a few years ago and didn't do well
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Syncing between installs needs work, but it's my daily driver
I love Vivaldi sync? What issues you having?
I started using Vivaldi when they finally added sync a d the sync is a thing I have the most problems with!
I randomly get duplicate notes and bookmarks if I edit some.
It always feels like ages until things get synchronized between devices (e.g. tabs).
There's this very prominent button in the share menu "Send to device" which doesn't work at all (I've read somewhere that it's a deprecated thing from Chromium, but why haven't they removed it for several years it's broken...?)
And also in past months it just randomly disconnected from the server several times on several devices, didn't even notify me except for changing the sync icon (on Android you have to go to the settings menu), and for a reconnect, I had to enter the passphrase again each time.
I see. You might be pushing it harder than I typically do. I use it to setup new installs and get all my pluguns transfered and for keeping bookmarks and history synced and it works well for this. I'm not typically doing a lot of hot syncing looking for tabs to update rapidly etc. Be sure to give them feedback and upvote similar complaints on their blog.
Vivaldi's pretty good feature-wise. It's got tab workspaces and stacking, detailed themes, mouse gestures, menu customisations, tab tiling, it's basically where a lot of the Firefox power-users have gone. It's a solid browser. That being said, a lot of the Firefox fanboyism is prevalent here so you're going to make a few people angry if you suggest anything that's based on Chromium. Just use whatever you see fit - I personally don't care too much about open-source vs. proprietary, I use Steam for crying out loud.
That being said, I've also gotta shill Pulse. I don't like the way Mozilla is running Firefox so I'm steering away from that, luckily Pulse is forked from Firefox. I'm concerned about Mozilla treating userChrome.css as a legacy feature, so having native vertical tabs is great, and a generally minimalist UI makes it a very clean looking browser to use. With Simple Tab Groups, the only extension I've installed for extra functionality with the browser itself, I've basically got my Vivaldi replacement, though If Mozilla breaks STG I'm moving my ass back to Vivaldi.
Vivaldi's pretty good feature-wise. It's got tab workspaces and stacking, detailed themes, mouse gestures, menu customisations, tab tiling, it's basically where a lot of the Firefox power-users have gone. It's a solid browser. That being said, a lot of the Firefox fanboyism is prevalent here so you're going to piss a few people off if you suggest anything that's based on Chromium.
That being said, I've also gotta shill Pulse. I don't like the way Mozilla is running Firefox so I'm steering away from that, luckily Pulse is a Firefox fork. Native vertical tabs that don't need an extension that Mozilla can break at any time, as well as a minimalist UI makes it a very clean looking browser to use, and with Simple Tab Groups, the only extension I've installed for extra functionality, I've basically got my Vivaldi replacement. If Mozilla breaks STG I'm moving my ass back to Vivaldi. edit test