We will be doing maintenance work on Vivaldi Translate on the 11th of May starting at 03:00 (UTC) (see the time in your time zone).
Some downtime and service disruptions may be experienced.
Thanks in advance for your patience.
I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox 😇
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Well, I jumped. I am now 100% off of V and onto to FF. The switch was actually pretty painless as extensions are near identical, can export/import their settings and bookmarks are a breeze.
V is still installed, but not the default and not pinned. I also removed my profile and made a new, fresh one with just my local development sites and Bitwarden loaded. This is day 3 of my V-tox and really is barely noticeable (for anything bad or missing). I have spent some time on the FF forums getting some UI tweaks figured out and I am real happy with the outcome.
V is still my main browser on my phone and tablets. We don't surf much on those and have AdGuard installed for blocks. V just looks good and works well on those devices.
I will still continue to promote V to family and friends if/when asked about a non-FF browser or just a base browser if they don't have a clue. I also still have this forum bookmarked on my Speed Dial because there is a lot of good information and really friendly people here.
As I have said in other posts, I have jumped and jumped back before, not only on browsers but other products. Mv3 is really big and looming. At least with FF we know some of what their plan is whereas the V team has been quiet. If they have made a comment, I have missed it and I apologize.
Was talking about this with the wife over coffee this morning (switched her PC as well). We were both remembering the old days w/Netscape and such and our first "feature rich" browser - Maxthon ! M1 and M2 was great, M3, not so much when it went the way of Opera, e.g. Chinese company involved. There were some really great features we used in M1 and M2 that we still haven't been able to replicate in any modern browser, e.g. the way they handled Tab Groups.
Anyway, good luck and best wishes to all.
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@vongalin said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:Anyway, good luck and best wishes to all
Does that final line imply that you're also leaving the forum? You really do not need to. I've been regularly jumping back & forth between V-Snappie & FF-Nightly for several years now. Even during the many times that Nightly was my default [latest cycle of which only ended a couple of weeks ago, btw], i remained active in the forum, coz, ofc, we don't just "forget" our accumulated V knowledge/experience even when kissing foxes, so that we can still assist others & participate in the community vibe.
Fwiw, i emphatically share your Mv3 angst. I do feel more pessimistic than several others in the forum on this, who IMO seem to have a bit of "magical thinking" about it. I feel extremely happy with my years-evolved setup of my Snappie, AND of my Nightly, such that if V were to "die"* for me, my Nightly setup provides an also superb personalised browsing capability for my needs & idiosyncrasies.
* "Die" = lose the current uBO / uM capabilities, if Mv3 proves every bit as dire as @gorhill has been opining for years. For me, daily browserising sans-uBO/uM is simply non-negotiable; if gargle do indeed murder uBO/uM in chromium browsers, then jumping to Nightly full-time permanently would occur in a heartbeat. I'd be extremely sad to lose my V, & certainly hope it won't come to that, but i know where my line in the sand is.
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@guigirl said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:Does that final line imply that you're also leaving the forum?
we still have 6 months
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T'other week i belatedly deployed this wunnerful wunnerful mod to autohide my Vivaldi-Snappie bookmark bar. It's so cool, & i'm enjoying it every day [why on earth had i not thought of this years ago?
].Consequently, this arvo, on a whim, i decided it's about time my FF-Nightly gained a similar bit of love. That soon lead to this, which equally works beautifully.
In this shitty hateful destructive world, other peeps' random generosity continues to comfort me.
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Fix UI Scaling and Large Fonts Issues in Firefox 103:
"If you installed or upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 103 or later version and you noticed that the fonts, menus and webpage contents are displaying too large on your computer screen, this article will help you in fixing the scaling issue and making the UI and fonts back to normal in Firefox."
Solution:
https://www.askvg.com/fix-ui-scaling-and-large-fonts-issues-in-firefox-103-and-later-versions/
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@barbudo2005 said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:Fix UI Scaling and Large Fonts Issues in Firefox 103:
So it 's looks like this issue only windows-related.
Luckily in Vivaldi we have UI scaling setting
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@barbudo2005 said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:fonts, menus and webpage contents are displaying too large
applied in Windows operating system
Hahahahaha, yet again, stoopid windoze lies at the heart of global misery & hardship.
I've been seeing endless moans, whinges & anger across reddit for the past several days on this, & was completely baffled yet amused. My FF 103, & Nightly 103-->104-->105 never had any such problem. I didn't understand it, but couldn't be bothered to investigate my
!=problem, ha. Now your linked article ends the mystery. Ta. -
Adsnetwork PPA is now enabled without any consent on Firefox 128. BAD!
Collecting data without consent violates EU-GDPR.
And they do not show opt-in or opt-out and to delete the collected data. Violates EU-GDPR and german DSGVO.
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@DoctorG said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:Adsnetwork PPA is now enabled without any consent on Firefox 128. BAD!
Mozilla basically just did exactly the same thing as Google with their Flock/Topics
Unbelievable!
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What is Adsnetwork PPA?
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@Stardust Now Mozilla Open-Source is a synonym for "We use your Data as a Open Source for Ads."
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other than being gecko based what can firefox do that you cant already do in vivaldi with some tweaking
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@mikeyb2001 said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:other than being gecko based what can firefox do that you cant already do in vivaldi with some tweaking
There are also things that Vivladi doesn't have and can't do:
- Drop-down bookmarks menu
- Middle-click scrolling on Linux
- Built-in proxy settings
- About:config settings
- Extensions support for android version, including uBlock Origin
- MV2 Privacy and Ad-blocker extensions will continue to work for the foreseeable future (as Mozilla claims). MV2 uBlock Origin will keep working.
- Better Bookmarks Manager
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Are you still with us?
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@Stardust said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:@mikeyb2001 said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:other than being gecko based what can firefox do that you cant already do in vivaldi with some tweaking
There are also things that Vivladi doesn't have and can't do:
Drop-down bookmarks menu- Middle-click scrolling on Linux-cant confirm or deny this one
- Built-in proxy settings-chrome://settings
- About:config settings-vivaldi://settings
- Extensions support for android version, including uBlock Origin-this is correct
- MV2 Privacy and Ad-blocker extensions will continue to work for the foreseeable future (as Mozilla claims). MV2 uBlock Origin will keep working.-the built in blocker willl remain functional
- Better Bookmarks Manager-X
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@barbudo2005 said in I cheat on Vivaldi with Firefox
:Said:
Yes!
Then why do you put that pest at the end?
Because we are in Firefox cheating thread!
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@mikeyb2001 ??? There is no Drop-down bookmarks menu in Vivaldi. I know this because I created a Feature Request to add it many years ago
