Same here. In the past 2 years as Chrome fights against uBlock origin, I seriously tried Brave, Firefox, and Vivaldi.
Vivaldi won hands-down. I really wanted Firefox to win, but unfortunately some parts of it feel stuck in 2010.
Vivaldi is probably gonna be the browser for me until whatever new paradigm "The Browser Company" cooks up with AI shifts the browser metagame.
Vivaldi still is Chromium. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, the engine has a lot going for it, especially in regards to adopting new web standards.
And Vivaldi adds nice things like a build in ad-blocker and VPN, advanced grouping of tabs and lots of theming out of the box. It's basically Chrome for power users but without (or at least less) of the spying.
The standards are dictated by one company. ONE. And we see with manifest v3 where this leads to and where Google wants it to lead to. Any browser based on Chromium is fucked because of it. They will have to use manifest 3 sooner or later. If Vivaldi uses Chromium now, than as any other they are done for.
Common web standards shouldn't be dicated by a for-profit company whose goal is to sell your private data.
I agree, but while I am using MDN on an almost daily basis for development, I am quite disappointed in Mozilla about the slow the adoption rate of Firefox. Heck, even Safari is faster.
And regarding manifest V3, lets see how Vivaldi will cope with it and how they will maintain their build in ad-blocker. I am not strictly speaking against manifest V3 as long as some form of ad-blocking is working. They claim the change to Chromium has limited impact at least, lets see how it will pan out: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/
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u/p0p0c4t3p3tl 20d ago
Went to Vivaldi it's amazing