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Since Brave is apparently absolutely terrible, is Vivaldi any better IF YOU CAN'T USE FIREFOX*? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I daily drive Firefox, but more and more websites are starting to break without Chromium, so I still have to occasionally switch to get something working. I was using Ungoogled Chromium until I realized that there was no easy way to update it when that pixel-stealing exploit came out a while back.

To be clear, I'm not talking about stock "no settings changed" Vivaldi. With that requirement, even Firefox could be called invasive! What I want to know is if Vivaldi is relatively safe to use with all the telemetry and stuff disabled in the settings and using any necessary extensions.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Haven't used it myself yet, but I've seen it recommended: the User Agent Switcher extension. It might fix some websites you have issues with?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's a good suggestion, but I'm talking about websites that actually break on Firefox, not just refuse to work. I can't send messages to my doctor because the portal gives an XML parsing error on Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Make you substantially easier to fingerprint.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I used to use it and it can help. Particularly microsoft websites. It causes audio distortion on some sites though.