It's sad that the only point to keep using Firefox is because it is open source.
The Firefox's interface is getting worse and worse and it does not seem to be doing anything to protect the users privacy.
The Firefox's interface is getting worse and worse and it does not seem to be doing anything to protect the users privacy.
It probably says more about me, but I spent a good 20 minutes last night trying (and failing) to work out how to remove the recently-added 'Firefox Suggest' line in the Address bar drop down when you enter a character and it starts to filter options from history, etc.
It's a stupid wee thing, but I don't need it, don't want it. It's just clutter, and besides it's not 'Firefox Suggests' it's my bloody history! Get out.
Can we trust Vivaldi? Without 100% of its source being available, the answer is dependent upon your threat model and what you intend to use a browser for along with where you live.
Vivaldi has poor feature parity with its mobile apps too.
Firefox has the same marketshare as samsung browser. Nosalgia wont save it. Chromium and its derivatives is just the standard client for the web, like linux is on the backend, the sooner everyone comes to terms with that the better.
If you can argue why a certain firefox approach is inheirently better and not even possible in the chromium ecosystem that is compelling but I have yet to hear of such an argument. For my part it seems like firefox just keeps getting more and more behind.
RAM and battery consumption for one. I would rather use a browser "that keeps getting more and more behind" if it means my battery usage is significantly better on a laptop or 2-in-1.
Web browsers are a surprisingly complex topic. For example, WebKit on iOS is intentionally crippled so that PWAs can't use push notifications, and thus businesses are forced to write apps for the App Store. However, Apple has been telling businesses for years now that their app could otherwise be achieved in a PWA, and regardless of kicking and screaming with an appeal due to needing to use push notifications, they will still reject it.
Is that wrong? Of course. Would everything using Blink or building on top of Chromium solve this? Potentially, but as we all know, Apple doesn't follow standards to the letter.
I do agree with where you're coming from though, and I do agree that standardization would be nice, but the reality is more complex, and there's objective advantages and disadvantages to each, the importance of each being a variable dependent on the user.