I am boycotting brave because of its sizeable amount of controversies and because it is American. I have decided to swap to Vivaldi but I have noticed a significant performance decrease on Speedometer 3.1 Benchmarks. Furthermore, according to EFF Cover my Tracks I now have a unique finger print and am easier to track.

My setup consists of using uBlock Origin (normal not lite) instead of Vivaldi’s built in tracker & ad blocker.

  • lai, a supersonic warrior@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    vivaldi would be the best browser for me (too and im boycotting too, im euro) but in there is so much shit i dont need. i have given up on firefox and its forks after 13 years…
    both are chromium, so idk how they can be as fast as brave with a browser so full of “features” and less developers.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    24 days ago

    Even Vivaldi has started saying certain plugins may not work in the future because they don’t abide by Google’s best practices.

    My biggest problem with Firefox is Google meet does not work well with it in Linux. It can take me over a minute to coax the video to work and some builds the audio just never works. A lot of other stuff I use works slow or just poorly in Firefox. I need OWA and PWA’s to work, keeping all of my work things together is just a really big hassle.

    I primary Librerwolf, and slip over to Vivaldi or Brave when I have to have something that’s google-ish. Each of the three are loaded down with the plugins that I use regularly and bookmarks are kept synced.

    • Lopar@lemm.eeOP
      21·
      29 days ago

      firefox is unuseable for me, it uses way too much ram compared to chromium browsers which have much better resource managmeent

      • ⲇⲅⲇ@lemmy.ml
        1·
        29 days ago

        As far as I know, Chrome uses much more RAM than Firefox. Look for benchmark, Firefox keep using less RAM and being fast as Chrome, some builds even faster on the brenchmarks I read.

        edit: typo

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 month ago

    Vivaldi is a no-go for me due to these two reasons:

    1- Chromium based 2- Does not respect the “open-source spirit”