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- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
I have Waterfox setup as an alternative browser but it does not have much stuff to differentiate itself from mainstream FF, as you said.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
Firefox can do so too with TST or one of the other extensions in the store. Sometimes(atleast for me), they introduce slightly more lag when opening the browser but otherwise, they can do much of the job. I use Tree Style Tabs even though I might not be a power user of it (read:not actively using every nitty gritty of the extension).
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
I think I remember Opera Mini’s layout though I didn’t much use it. It was a great alternative especially on mobile more than a decade back.
But yes especially after changing ownership, switching browser engines and years down the line; things have changed.
I think I have their desktop variant a try sometime ago but didn’t find it compelling enough. I haven’t even used their Android fork. I keep using a Firefox fork only :p.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
I think 4K is only available on Edge on Windows for Netflix. I never bothered with 4K since that’s above and beyond my device’s native resolution but I didn’t have too positive a experience with Netflix, IMO.
I just want to watch something in full HD without intermittent streaming or buffering. Legal streaming services including Netflix treat one like a criminal by forcing them to watch in a Web browser with constant Internet connectivity forced upon them. I can use keyboard shortcuts to increase playback speed by 0.1x each time in mpv, does Netflix allow me to do the same? No, instead it gives me a dusty experience.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
I gave Vivaldi a try way back in its early days when I was on Windows. IIRC, it was bundled with lots of features even then and I think, for some weird reason, had Philips Hue Lighting support integrated (unless I am really confusing it with something other, this is multiple years old experience of mine).
I used it as my main browser for Atleast couple of months then.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
I am surprised they abandoned it. It was originally launched as a macOS variant only, correct? And Mac users praised it a lot, on the Web. I thought with that level of traction they will keep going.
In contrast, there are projects that have a much lower user base though vocal (read: Pale Moon) and despite struggling with half of the available modern Web pages, those projects still keep going.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
Many sites have become worse. I think stuff like Cnet, PCMag (which still has a digital magazine I think)were much better in the previous era.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
I will give Zen browser a try. As for Netflix, I only used it for a one month since it’s quite expensive in my country and it crawled like anything on Firefox for Linux. I was getting consistent 720p video but not sure about full HD. Eventually I canceled it.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 5 weeks ago:
Opera also was a good alternative on Symbian phones right or whatever OS Nokia used before they switched to Windows Phone, I think.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 127 comments
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
I guess I will give it a try someday. I originally had a Google Play Music subscription back in the day when it had a cleaner UI(and then Google killed it). I recently switched back to YT Music since ReVanced would usually play video variants.
I don’t have much love for YT Premium since the official YouTube app is worse than NewPipe, say. Even after paying, you are shown adverts for purchasing say, merchandise from creators (that counts as an ad in my book).
I will probably give RVX a try once my current subscription ends.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
RVX Music requires manual compilation, right? Also, does it properly play album version of songs? (YT Music ReVanced plays the video version of songs instead).
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- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 5 months ago:
I think the article mentions it. AOL tried to block it and this to and fro went 21 times before finally coming to a stop. MSN and Yahoo later signed a deal, I think, so that the former will work with latter’s contacts properly.
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 119 comments
- Comment on Nokia: The Story of the Once-Legendary Phone Maker 6 months ago:
My first smartphone was their cheap Lumia 520. Yes, it had its limitations (it couldn’t natively playback mkv files and no VLC support was there yet; only one paid app offered this basic thing) but the polycarbonate back was good, the battery lived decent enough despite being small and the OS was very smooth.
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