@mib2berlin said in I switched to Arc, here is why:

Hi and yes, in the address bar settings enable Open Tab.
You can move it up to get higher priority.

Cool. This is great.

@Catweazle I just realize that I wanted to answer another post by @wintercoast in the other thread about Opera. 😅

@Catweazle @Leuchte812 I'm aware of the deficiencies you mention but I just don't place them as high in my hierarchy of drawbacks as you do. I prioritise overall features and usability. That's what drew me to Vivaldi, not privacy and security. The latter are pretty good but if another browser is even better, that in itself would not cause me to switch. I look at features as a package.

@Robbo said in Zen browser, An advanced modern Firefox fork with a beautiful Apple-like interface:

@electryon that's funny, the only reason I have zen installed right now is because I want better media playback which it provides on wayland.

Wayland, you are a linux user, Zen won't have playback issues in linux at playback of Netflix etc because VMP is not supported in linux.
But as a windows user, Zen is a no no for me. I also use my browser for watching sports from my local tv provider, I watch Netflix, I listen to Spotify. Browsers like Zen can't fulfill my media playback needs.
Firefox supports VMP and in version 132 they have also added support for Microsoft PlayReady for 4K Netflix playback.
Maybe Firefox with a css that mimics Zen's interface would be an alternative. Especially now that Firefox has very nice vertical tabs support in latest nightlies, they have also added support for transparency and Mica in latest nightlies, it will be easier than ever to make a replica of Zen's interface in Firefox.

@Catweazle Not to worry, I already installed Zorin O/S last July and it runs better than Windows, on another PC I have. I think its better keeping things separated .

@Stardust I wouldn't do something like that ... I use Librewolf 😉

@aminought said in [Mod] Second sidebar with web panels for Firefox:

you can't open two panels at the same time.

And here is the corresponding feature request!
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/44798/two-panels-sidebars-at-the-same-time

OK some pointers:

Chrome/Chromium and most Chromium-based browsers use the Omnibox.
https://www.chromium.org/user-experience/omnibox/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dk_U-zXiMFynKOYYKrS6VKUXrON_ta2mYnAyHa-Uvc0/ Vivaldi does not use Omnibox, but its own implementation allowing stuff like the drop-down menu priority and ordering/removing categories. Firefox and Mozilla-based browsers use a ranking based on some "Frecency" algorithm:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/urlbar/ranking.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecency Chrome was built from the ground up as a data collection tool. It prioritized History searches over Bookmarks, as it wanted users to save their history so Google could slurp and index it. Google is a "search company"[1] and they made damn sure its History search was really good, so people would use it instead of Bookmarking stuff.

So is Chrome's Omnibox search better than Vivaldi's implementation?
It depends. The Omnibox does not allow for any customization of results or priorities - it uses algorithms to guess what the user wants. And it's pretty good at guessing, that's true.

For people who rely solely on their History to find web pages, the Omnibox is great, probably better than Vivaldi. But I've not used Chrome to any large extent so wouldn't be able to tell. Most people coming from other browsers will be used to the Omnibox and so that's what they expect. They'll just have to learn the Vivaldi way.

[1] Google is actually a data collection and advertising company but that's another discussion.

As said before, the Yandex reverse image search is by far the best and most complete, but the other products are similar to Google with the same inexistent privacy.

@Catweazle True for the wording being complicated and omiting and I agree on that however some practices in the past ( i.e. DDG) proved that some questionable stuff might be going on. As I said before , my testing is very limited and dowloaded only because your comments were positive. I typically don't download without extensive research. Thanks for your input

@uberprutser
They make profiles from you and share them with third parties. Sure... these parties take good care of them:)

https://alohaprofile.com/public/privacy

Your personal data (name, contact information, email address) may be shared with third parties - service providers who participate, directly or indirectly, in the development of Aloha Profile's commercial activities, such as providing support, analyzing data, provision and support of the website's functionalities and resources. Under the terms of your engagement, these service providers are not permitted to share or use your data for any purpose other than providing services to us. We clarify that the personal information collected is accessible only to those who need to know it to carry out relevant activities, respecting the purpose for which it was provided.

@AllanH Supermium sounds interesting! The fact that it supports Windows XP and older versions is a big plus for those still using that operating system. The improved security and usability features are also worth noting!

I keeping using Vivaldi (and try to whenever i can) as im an old Opera 12.x user and like what the dev team has created and what they have added over time (never realised how much customization has come back ...). Much of it works for me, but for various reasons i cant commit fully to using it as my only browser (YT doesnt work all the time and various video streaming accounts work on and off and some others sites wont work with vivaldi properly for me etc)...so i have others on hand like Brave and Edge/Chrome for certain types of account and sites

I think important things are not written.
First, official site is: https://floorp.app/
(GitHub: https://github.com/floorp-Projects/floorp/ )

And, this browser's most important feature is Firefox-based and is not ruled by Chrome Web Store. So, for example, addon(extension) doesn't need to follow Manifest v3, which has following problems: https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/issues/1934#issuecomment-2154174223

@jakemcrae Settings > Tabs:

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Also note that this is the Default setting, so you have changed something yourself to make it not do this.