3 things that work better in Vivaldi compared to Google Chrome
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@priest72: I agree. And Firefox is improving a lot its speed and performance in the last recent months.
My wet dream would be a Firefox fork made by Vivaldi to get where Firefox lacks in my opinion (features, customization and integration with different OSes. For example, Windows has the close, minimize and maximize icons on the right, and MacOS has in on the left side. Firefox has the close tabs icons on the right always, but Vivaldi has them on the right side on Windows and on the left side on MacOS). -
@almarma - Vivaldi has plenty of what Firefox used to be good at, namely flexibility.
The one thing Vivaldi could improve a bit on (at least on my Win10 setup with SSD), is a quicker boot at startup. Brave, Slimjet and Edge are always faster at this.
Waterfox 3rd generation (fresh off the press) seems to be on the road to pickup where Firefox left off.
So, in the meantime, keep up with the good work Vivaldi!
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@almarma Gecko is harder to mantain (less people to work on it), tends to change too often (vanilla gecko, goanna, quantum, rust, servo, chromium-like extensions...) and the fact that several minor forks switched from it to chromium is pretty concerning. Would be an huge risk which could even kill Vivaldi. Chromium is more modular and has more people which fix it. I think is the reason why we'll never see a Gecko fork. Most gecko forks are/were just rebranded Firefox, some are tweaked foxes and some are separate branches which couldn't be reliable nowadays (due outdated gecko code).
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@danielson but Waterfox has no sync features, am I right? Also they are based on an old Firefox engine if I'm right.
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@Hadden89 Interesting. I don't know about the intricacies of developing a web browser so I had no idea about the issues.
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@almarma - can sync with Firefox database.
Info. on latest iteration with roadmap:
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@priest72: I think that's a matter of personal preference. You seem to have an issue with, or some bias against Chrome and chromium engine. Everyone has their subjective biases. Others will swear by Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Edge, Opera, and yes, your preference for Firefox. For myself, as with the author, I've been using Chrome for ages. Is it perfect? Not at all. I don't like Chrome's lack of decent tabs and extensions management and organization. BUT, Chrome is very extensible with so many addons to extend usability in many useful ways. This is important to me especially extensions I use which supports Japanese. I use Edge on occasional in parallel, and ditto for Vivaldi as well. It is much more organized and the layout more customizable versus Chrome. I think Vivaldi also supports most of the extensions that Chrome does if not mistaken. If Vivaldi had greater penetration and widespread use like Chrome, I'd switch to Vivaldi immediately full time. For now I use both.
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For me all Gecko browsers work slow, and page loading speeds are slower than on chromium. Moreover, Firefox has less extensions than chromium
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@KastenTop That was not my experience with gecko browsers.
There are several reasons why chromium renders pages faster although the speed is negligable.Both chromium and firefox share the webextension api so one does not have more than the other.
Firefox has far more granular control than chromium.
Chromium uses prefetching and heavy caching to give the speed illusion. -
there are also tab groups in chrome. even though that feature was only a year ago, I think it deserves to be mentioned.
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