No other browser felt better than Vivaldi
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I recently made the switch from Firefox to Vivaldi, and I have to say, I love the change! One of the biggest differences I've noticed is the speed. Vivaldi is super fast, with almost zero lag when browsing web pages, which is a very huge improvement over Firefox. This is despite Vivaldi having more features and generally doing more work. I've noticed a significant improvement in my laptop's battery life since using Vivaldi, which is yet another huge improvement over Firefox.
Another thing that's impressed me about Vivaldi is the level of customization it offers. I can personalize it easier. No need for
user.jshax, just straight to the settings and I can change the placement of tabs. The notes and mail significantly changed my workflow for the better, no more switching windows over and over again just for taking notes. My productivity improved very much thanks to this.I'm really happy I discovered Vivaldi. It's a powerful browser that's faster, more battery-friendly and offers incredible customization options.
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@IverCoder Welcome to this forum!
After what feels like 2 years of Vivaldi, I can only agree with you. Vivaldi is great!And by the way, this forum too!
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@IverCoder I was a Firefox user for over a decade and switched to Opera and Vivaldi about 4 years ago, with Opera as default and Vivaldi as No. 2. I've had Vivaldi on my PCs for a few years but finally decided to try it as default, if only to gradually discover features that I've been unaware of due to only casual use.
But I realised early on that, certainly for any disgruntled Firefox power user, who didn't want to bet on a Firefox fork, then Vivaldi was the obvious choice.
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@IverCoder, welcome to the community, and yes, using Vivaldi is an experience, no way back to other browsers, for me since almost 7 Years now.
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Welcome friend. I've been using Vivaldi as my main browser since version 2.0.
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Welcome! Please evangelize for Vivaldi
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Welcome aboard! I've been enjoying this great browser since the beta days. Tell all your friends about it!
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@IverCoder It’s great you’re happy, but “fast” and “speed” are useless measurements. Any browser on a fresh profile will feel faster than a browser with a dirty profile you have used for months/years prior. It’s one of the top reasons why people switch browsers. My stable Firefox install is lightning fast, because I rarely touch it.
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@luetage you have a point, though in my experience, my few weeks-old Vivaldi profile is much faster than a fresh Firefox profile.
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@IverCoder , same for me, Vivaldi with all extensions, history, bookmarks and web panels is way faster as my Firefox as is, which I have for testreasons. The other 2 I've for same reasons are really lightning fast like a Pop-up, Otter and the SSuite Netsurf, but they are very basic.
But the speed in any case is relative, it doesn't work for me if a browser opens and renders very quickly, if in its daily use I have to open other things apart to have the functions I need, wasting time switching between one and the other.>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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@Catweazle said in No other browser felt better than Vivaldi:
it doesn't work for me if a browser opens and renders very quickly, if in its daily use I have to open other things apart to have the functions I need, wasting time switching between one and the other.
Agree. Even if Firefox is faster, I think I'll stay with Vivaldi because its built-in notes and mail feature mean I no longer have to waste time switching apps/windows to access those.
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@IverCoder, with this I have been able to convince some students about how practical Vivaldi is in online exams, with splitscreen and web panel
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@luetage I've never really noticed speed differences between browsers. In practice network latency dwarfs any minor differences in page rendering. Therefore the main criteria for me have always been overall features and usability.
I've also found that no one browser is better than all others in all respects. Ditto search engines.
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@Catweazle said in No other browser felt better than Vivaldi:
@IverCoder, with this I have been able to convince some students about how practical Vivaldi is in online exams, with splitscreen and web panel
I find horizontal split screen on one page is useful especially when reading technical documents with graphics where you can stay where you are in the text in the lower panel but scroll back to a graphic it is referring to in the upper panel.
There are extensions that can be used for this and there was a good one in Firefox Classic but since then I've been unable to find anything as usable as Vivaldi's implementation. It's one of the reasons why I used to switch to Vivaldi occasionally before I made it my desktop default.
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@wintercoast, this is why I said that speed is relative, in the difference between the main browsers we are talking about a few seconds or fractions of seconds, which is basically irrelevant. Where there is really a noticeable difference is in the aforementioned Otter and Netsurf, these actually open almost as fast as the file explorer, but instead they are pretty basic browsers, which on the other hand have good privacy protection and can be an alternative for users with very limited resources. They don't have many configuration options and the themes are limited to dark and light theme and background image. They are used to navigate and little else. They use the WebView2 engine. Netsurf has a good integration with SSuite, but it can also be used in any browser, in Vivaldi even in the WebPanel.
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Welcome. It's a great browser, isn't it? I've been using it as my default (over Edge) for about 7 months now, and although I still have a few odd reservations it will remain my default. I've posted a couple of blogs on this Community (see Stuff by Travellin' Bob) about my discovery and implementation experience, and will be adding another today on how I'm finding it after daily use for 6+ months.
Way better than any other browser, IMO - though I do believe Edge is running a close second, as I will discuss.
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I had to come here because I just updated to Vivaldi 6.0 and the team has, once again, come out with a feature that I never knew I so desperately needed. This time, it's Workspaces, and I can finally revamp my "View Later" bookmark folder I rarely use (because keeping the tab open for weeks/months has much lower resistance). I navigated onto the forum and found out that it's a feature that was suggested almost exactly 3 years ago.
Being able to move all address bar components into the status bar (to act like the "small taskbar icons" setting in Windows), remaping F11 to Show/Hide UI (acting similar to OneNote) and customising most context menus to remove actions I'd never use have had a similar, breathtaking feeling. So is not having to scroll for hours to find a theme I like, because I can create a custom one in moments. It's quite lovely going into the settings just to read them all, and thinking "You can do that / toggle that / change that?!". And because customisability is a first-rate citizen, obtaining a powerful, personalised setup isn't somethhing hidden away by knowledge only found in a large documentation wiki or YouTube tutorial.
The only thing I'm strongly looking out for now is Android extension support for a full-coverage solution. Somewhat better touchscreen support on desktop is second on that list, and why I also think Edge is driving a decent second place race.
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@Tsvetkov1964, nice, but one problem is sync with Mozilla, and the other with support. Anyway maybe a good second browser.
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@Tsvetkov1964 That is just another Firefox clone.
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@Tsvetkov1964, sure there isn't a problem to be able to sync with Mozilla, the problem is other.
Well, it's not so important if you don't need sync because of an own backup system. But in this case you can also use the Otter Browser with the philosophy of the old Opera 12
https://otter-browser.org
