I love Vivaldi. If only it wouldn't use Blink. I feel morally obligated to use Firefox.
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I feel morally obligated to use Firefox.
I tried to switch too but tiling in Vivaldi is too good.
There's an extension for the 'Fox but it doesn't work so great for me. I dug a bit into it and there was a previous version that worked exactly like Vivaldi's! I.e., tiling within one browser window. But it was broken when Firefox "switched to WebExtensions."
The following is hearsay, but I read that the extension's author apparently requested some things for WE so they could restore functionality and the request got mothballed.
Same, I finally switched a couple of months ago, to avoid manifest v3
Why? Maybe because of Google? Google has the same influence in Firefox, there even Google devs working in Mozilla on Firefox. Don't forget, Chromium is FOSS and every company is free to gut Chromium to they like, which Vivaldi devs are doing. EDGE is also Chromium, it is a privacy Nightmare, but all calls are of MS and participating companies, but zero calls to Google. The original engine was KDE's KHTML, forked by Apple into WebKit which Google improved, creating Blink, which currently is the best engine, because of this also the most used.
Define "best".
That said, none of your reasons really. Well, in a sense because of Google. But not their influence on FF, but Manifest 3.
Plus, having Blink as the only engine on the web paves the way to non-standardized practices and technologies. And Google would control that. And one company having too much control has never been a good idea. Isn't that right, Microsoft (cough Internet Explorer)?
What is the sense of OpenSource? Or which part of OpenSource you don't have understand, respect control by an unique author? Google control the web and its services, that isits power, not the Blink or other engine, which everyone can modify and customize.
If it was just refactoring the browser wouldn't get faster, would it? Since refactoring should only affect the readability of the code
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I absolutely love the update!
Since every major release od Vivaldi is unstable until it gets 2-3 minor updates, I feel like "massive code refactoring" means it'll need at least 5 updates this time. I'll give it a few weeks. But the changelog looks cool nonetheless.