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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I tried Vivaldi when it was newly released, but when back to good ol' Firefox (with an occasional Edge visit). I wonder if I should give Vivaldi another look...
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I was an Opera user for several years, but got driven away when they dropped a fully functional browser and expected users to be happy with a half-baked one for however long it was going to take them to finish cooking it.
Then I was a Firefox user for several years but finally got sick them dropping features that I was using. (I mean the notes field in the bookmark list, why on Earth did they have to drop that? Was I really the only person who'd spent years curating a list of bookmarks with notes?)
And then I found Vivaldi - initially attracted by its links back to Opera (and it's ability to have notes on bookmarks). There were some moments early on when I was inspired to look around for other options, but I kept coming up empty and Vivaldi kept getting better. Now I am very happy with it. It's based on Chromium so site compatibility is good, and the developers give me confidence that they take privacy seriously which is even better. I don't like the integrated email very much, but it's entirely optional - I have it active for my free Vivaldi account only and it suffices for that. In that vein, Vivaldi has lots of interesting and useful features which you can use or ignore as you like, and it seems to be compatible with most Chrome/Chromium extensions (or the few I've tried so far, I don't tend to need many because Vivaldi comes with the most critical stuff built in).