At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors.

[dougiec3@libretooth.gr]

@jon
Love Vivaldi. I heard about it here, on Mastodon, tried it and have been with it ever since. No bugs! Ah...

[seanpm2001@techhub.social]

@jon Vivaldi is still a problem. Your browser is not only closed source software, but it is based on Chromium, meaning you are just another Google browser, like Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, etc. I am unhappy with Firefox at the moment, but I will keep using it, as I refuse to support Google.

[lisp_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@seanpm2001 My sentiments exactly.

[lisp_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@bucachowchow me too.

[thezorse@hear-me.social]

@jon

It looked promising when I checked it out, but I'd humbly recommend that either the Google checkboxes be unchecked by default, or the user is shown a message during setup pointing them out.

[aianhanma@toot.community]

@jon In the words of my mother: vivaldi is too messy out of the box.

That, together with the pain one has to go through if one wants to remove all the "big tech" style ads and disable the associated trickery, makes it really hard to recommend.

[abosio@fosstodon.org]

@jon I’m loving Vivaldi as a recent convert but the last piece of my workflow puzzle is stack syncing between mobile and desktop.

[controlfreak@todon.eu]

@lexinova oof on the hateful cdn, plus as others have noted, their additions to chromium are closed...

[amitie@m.cmx.im]

@jon This is my main browser now and I'm in China.

[sarae@ecoevo.social]

@jon I have been trying it and like it but am still trying to figure out how the starting menus system works

[dextivestudios@mastodon.art]

@jon No AI is based.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@jon Vivaldi is my daily drive. You share my values about what the internet should be. And you give Vivaldi users a place on the Fediverse. Most of all, it's a great browser. Thanks for what you do.

[gekitsu@toot.cat]

@seanpm2001 @jon jup, my feelings as well. by all accounts, the people making vivaldi seem to be pretty good sorts.

but chromium considered malware.

[qlp@linh.social]

@jon While I prefer to use Firefox as my primary browser (partly at a way to show that non-Chromium browsers are still important), but Vivaldi is my go-to Chromium-based browser.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@jon @zazzoo thank you.

[msdropbear@friendica.opensocial.space]

@jon

based on the wishes of our users.

...unless, ofc, one of those wishes is tree style tabs, ie, an infinitely nestable tab hierarchy, not merely the simple one-dimensional options as now of many years' standing. in this case, it's all just 🦗🦗🦗

[olivia@theforkiverse.com]

@jon I've just downloaded, I don't demand much from my browser bar no-AI and good ad blocking. Good so far

[r4d10_411310947hy@radikal.social]

@jon They are a wrapper around google's browser engine (Chromium) and refuse to open source their code... How much could they possibly respect your privacy?

[shadowmakersdr@mastodon.nl]

@jon I really like Vivaldi, especially the sessions functionality.
There's only one issue: after the first start up of the day, every subsequent time I start Vivaldi it takes something like 30 seconds before I can use it. It becomes totally unresponsive during that time. I've been in contact with support, but so far there has not been a solution. Which is a shame because apart from that it runs great. This is on Windows btw.

[seven_708@infosec.exchange]

@jon @inthehands This browser is very nice, but I would love for it to do one thing, be a bit more privet. Would be super cool if you would scramble the fingerprint on it, to provide another layer of security, without the need for plugins.