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grundymonday··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
I switched to Vivaldi a year or two ago after using Firefox as my main browser for the longest time. I've considered switching back, but every time I run up against several features in Vivaldi that I am just not ready to part with yet:

1) tab stacks, 2) the ability to save and reopen an entire session, 3) a page load progress indicator in the URL bar, 4) using Ctrl-F highlights the position of all matching locations in the page in the right-hand scroll bar, and 5) the window panel, which keeps track of all closed tabs and windows so you can reopen everything if you accidentally close a window.

Some of those are small perks, and some of them are major. I'd love to see Firefox implement some of them.

grundymonday··on The smug style in American liberalism
Indeed, the ideological opponents of liberals in America also have a smugness problem, but that may be because they themselves are also liberals.

"[T]he contemporary debate within modern political systems are almost exclusively between conservative liberals, liberal liberals, and radical liberals. There is little place in such political systems for the criticism of the system itself, that is, for putting liberalism in question" (Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, 394).

Smugness is a problem for liberal liberals and conservative liberals alike. Perhaps smugness is a natural temptation or outgrowth of liberalism itself.