There’s also other chromium browsers with built-in ad-blocking that still work AFAIK. If all extensions and forked brower’s ad-blockers stopped working, I think there would probably be a surge in firefox usage (even if there’s not that much change in chromium usage).
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I use Vivaldi as my daily driver and love it. There’s built in ad blocking but it’s not as good as the extension. If the extension stops working there I’ll switch to Firefox in a heartbeat though
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
As a supporter of Firefox and FOSS, Vivaldi is my guilty pleasure. It has the best UI experience once you set it up how you like.
mke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Leaving Vivaldi was a sad moment for me. That UI, the settings, those features…! Goodness. I’m an enjoyer of bells and whistles, and Vivaldi’s got all of them and then some.
The folks working on it seem straight up great. Did you know they also host a mastodon instance? Literally my only issue with it is the engine, and that just so unluckily happens to be a deal breaker.
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah the founders are ex-Opera devs who left after the company was acquired by Qihoo 360, and the power user UI features are leagues ahead of other browsers I’ve tried. I wish Firefox developer edition would embrace of a philosophy of a more customizable UI centered around power users
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Vivaldi is cool. I installed it (for those who wanted a chromium browser) and FF on all the work computers where I work. Eventually uninstalled it because people started playing Vivaldia. Disabled Edge, so now they are FF only.
avatar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Is there any other browser that does a right-side vertical tab bar with compact tabs?
There’s an extension for Firefox to do it, but it’s a bit clunkier than Vivaldi’s - definitely something I’d only switch to if I really had to… but every other browser I’ve seen only offers left-side vertical tabs at best, which is terrible if you want 3 monitors in a left-to-right layout with your browser on the left.
Morphit@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I think what you want is in Firefox nightly right now: …mozilla.org/…/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-…
That expands and compacts based on the sidebar state and can be flipped to the right side of the window in the ‘customise sidebar’ settings.