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ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Vivaldi and Librewolf are good recommends. So good call by the author.

I wish I could completely ditch Blink based browsers for Gecko ones, just because I dislike how dominant Blink is thanks to Chrome. But some sites don’t render correctly on Gecko. So a fallback is needed.

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Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
We vote with our browser. And you are voting Chromium. It’s ok, but you could do something about it.

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- ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’m really not. I use Firefox 99.5% of the time (I need to switch to Librewolf). But there are some rare occasions - usually shitty old billing websites - where Gecko simply does not work due to said shitty old website. Not paying those bills is an impractical solution. Having a fallback for those rare occasions isn’t unreasonable.
  
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  - Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sorry, I misunderstood then
    
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abrahambelch@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I never came across a single page that didn’t render correctly with Gecko - do you have an example?

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- ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah. Most recently it was a shitty site that looked like it had been built in 2000 and I had to use to pay an EMS bill: services.webillems.com
  
  Tried several times on Firefox and it wouldn’t let me proceed with the payment. It kind of acted like it had. But when I called them to confirm they said it never went through. Tried multiple times with the same results. So I then tried on Chrome and it went through first time.
  
  There’s have been others too. But like I said before, it’s rare. But annoying.
  
  It’s down to these sites using stale, poorly-written legacy code and/or never being upgraded.
  
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ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What’s wrong with Vivaldi?

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- nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Some people are uncomfortable with it being closed-source. It’s more of a philosophical objection than a criticism of the browser’s functionality.
  
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- BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  If you dont require open-source in your decision, Vivaldi is great. Its what i use most. It has a ton of granular features that i appreciate, but can be a bit too much for folks that want a more minimal experience.
  
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