Hi everyone, with the whole Firefox ToS change and it’s fingerprinting I asked on mastodon if anyone could recommend a web browser alternative to Firefox and was recommend to go with Vivaldi due to their no fingerprinting, and allowing unlock to still work even though it uses manifest v3.

I am already switching to librefox on windows, and fence on android.

But I wanted to ask if the claims for vivaldi where true?

  • land@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’ve tried out most of the popular browsers:

    • Arc
    • Firefox
    • Librewolf
    • Brave

    I keep coming back to Vivaldi. Here are a few reasons why:

    • Built-in Workspaces (Way better than tab groups)
    • Customization (which I absolutely love)

    I use Zen browser as backup. Firefox-based browsers always seem to have something broken, so it’s good to have a chromium-based browser.

    I really like Brave for privacy reasons, but it lacks some of my most used features like workspace and split-view.

    I know Vivaldi looks a bit overwhelming at first, but you can disable almost everything you don’t need.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I like Vivaldi even though it has started to become a little bit too much of everything for quite some time (mail, calendar, RSS, notes luckily one can deactivate all that). For years, Vivaldi has been my second browser next to FF (which I’ve been using since… way before it was a thing as I started with Mosaic ;)). I also have a copy of Brave.

    That said, yesterday I installed LibreWolf on my Linux machine to test it out as an alternative to FF because, well, that last change they made was one more I’m not a huge fan of and maybe it’s time to start considering changing my main browser and I’m not sure I want a chromium-based browser as my main one.

  • pound_heap@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    LibreWolf is a decent alternative. I switched to it a while ago as Firefox enshittification required more and more tweaks in configuration to close leaks.

    I’ve heard good things about Mullvad browser too especially on fingerprint resistance, but LibreWolf works for me well enough to not search for alternatives.

    For rare sites that I need to use and which don’t work in Firefox based browsers, I just use Brave.