"There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge)
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@ThePfromtheO said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
@wintercoast said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
Though I do have Brave installed, just not as desktop default.
Me too! I sometimes use it, for example, to compare it with other browsers.
I often use it to test an unauthenticated version of a site I'm logged into on Vivaldi. I also recently installed LibreWolf, so as to have at least one Gecko browser to test. I was a Firefox user for well over a decade but eventually defected to Opera and then Vivaldi.
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@wintercoast said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
I often use it to test an unauthenticated version of a site I'm logged into on Vivaldi.
Oh, I simply use "Private Window" for that!
But, maybe you want to keep the data, not lose it every time when you close the window... -
@DoctorG said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
I tries some special web sessions question for Perl and AI created wrong solutions or was hallucinating unusable code.
Could be that AI is good for you and your C#, but not for me and my Python and Perl codes.
Ha! I hate Perl with a vengeance.
I've found that the AI's vary in quality depending on the problem you fire at it. They vary from better or worse variations on the correct and/or compilable/runnable answer to being plain wrong. That's why you always need to keep your brain engaged!
But there's also a skill in crafting your prompt. IIRC, when I was playing yesterday, it (ChatGPT in this case) got it wrong initially, but that was because it had misunderstood what I was asking (which when I read it back to myself, was understandable). Once I reformulated my prompt, it got it right.
Btw, I currently have 14 AI's hooked up in my Vivaldi web panel. Plus I also occasionally use Opera Aria and Brave Leo as standalones in their own browsers.
Plus I use Brave AI in Brave Search in Vivaldi, but mostly just for summary searches.
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@ThePfromtheO said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
@wintercoast said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
I often use it to test an unauthenticated version of a site I'm logged into on Vivaldi.
Oh, I simply use "Private Window" for that!
But, maybe you want to keep the data, not lose it every time when you close the window...I have a friend I often send links to and I know he uses Brave, so it makes sense to test in Brave.
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@wintercoast said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
so it makes sense to test in Brave.
So you won't seem ignorant, no?
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@wintercoast Sorry for deviating even more from the topic of the OP, but do you know how could I make the emoticons I type remain emoticons, not to change in emojis here, on the Vivaldi forum?
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Huh, some Eich-man fanboyz here.
I run away now.
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@DoctorG Only one more thing, please!
What does this mean?
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@ThePfromtheO I do not want to explain why i disagree in support for Brave Corp.
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@DoctorG But, I don't promote Brave, as you saw!
With esteem,
"The Phantom from the Opera" -
I do not understand why users want to get suggestions by bing,com CoPilot.
Bing and its bot are really crazy "searchengine" which fails to use favicons correct and tries to think for users by suggesting wrong pages. -
@wintercoast said in "There's no need to download a new web browser."(Microsoft Edge):
Most of them just add privacy layers on top of (mostly) Microsoft and Google web indexes. Brave, Mojeek and Yandex are some exceptions, having heir own web indexes.
That layer of privacy is very valuable. And the existence of so many viable third party search front ends argues, if anything, for V. creating its own. It could be viable, and it might not be so technically involved.
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@ThePfromtheO Then you could not have recognize that i have not addressed my answer to you.
But i always fear attacks of straight conservative tech dudes.
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@paul1149 I agree privacy is valuable but I don't see that there's much Vivaldi can add here to an already crowded market.
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@wintercoast Yes.
I think there is no need for Vivaldi Technologies to run a search engine/bot. More work, less money and time for browser. -
@DoctorG @wintercoast There are already a lot of other search engines.
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@ThePfromtheO As well as other browser apps
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@ThePfromtheO But Vivaldi stands out of all of them as being the most customizable one.
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@DoctorG Not a fan boy of anyone, I just use whatever I happen to find valuable for specific purposes. I generally find there's never any one product that is best for me for all use cases. So I use a mix of Big Tech, small tech, closed and open source, commercial and free, as the case may be.
I'm currently writing this in Vivaldi on Windows 10. It's my default browser.
I also use Linux for other purposes, e.g., playing around with blockchain tech.
On my phone, I have Opera as default.
On my iPad I have Brave as default.
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@ThePfromtheO Most people in these forums, I assume, care about customizability and features, but most users don't. They just want to browse and don't care about anything else. Or, if they do care, it will just be about privacy and nothing else.
