Hi all, been using Vivaldi for a while now.Started some time around March of last year, and since it’s been my go to. While, yes. Even for a gaming PC it is rather sluggish, it worked and pushed through. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the experience with it.That said! I’ve been in consideration of moving to something that fits my needs a lot more.
I’ve wanted a few things from a browser.
- Something more sandboxed in.
- Better password management that isn’t totally reliant on autofill info.
- A bit faster speed, and so on.
- Something a bit more sandboxed in.
Here are some features I’ve loved.- Vivaldi snapshotting, this has saved me especially when buying online and forgetting an item page.
- Able to bypass a lot of nonsense.
- Feature suite, what’s not to complain about it? It is literally a Chrome but better and offers more for the average user that I could see any Chrome lover using.
- Solid browser in terms of reliability. I haven’t had any crashing as I’ve constantly read about on here.
I’d say my experience has been a good one, but I am definitely in high wants of moving to something different.
I don’t think there are any browsers that have built-in VPN as most are likely just some kind of proxy but I would recommend trying out Proton VPN (Free Version) and for the browser itself, try out Brave Browser.
I think this may fill in your requirements so Merry Christmas mate!
You really shouldn’t seek out one program to do a whole lot of things out-of-the-box, as that leads to yet another single point of failure vulnerability.
Try out a browser that allows you to chose add-ons more freely, from which you can chose and pick the elements you want. Mouse gestures, Snapshotting, µMatrix & uBlock Origin, etc. Like Pale Moon.
For VPN, I’d suggest Mullvad. For Passwords, I suggest your brain.
- Vivaldi snapshotting, this has saved me especially when buying online and forgetting an item page
screenshot webpage? edge have that feature
Being Swiss Army knife of browsers is why Vivaldi stands out. So there isn’t really a browser that can provide everything that Vivaldi offers. If you find proprietary browsers reliable, the Chromium Edge will probably be the best alternative for you. It runs much smoother than Vivaldi.
Firefox could be another potential alternative. While it’s quite minimal out of the box, but with correct suite of extensions and some heavy work on userChrome, the extensibility is limitless.
Pros:
- Ads and trackers filtering with uBlock Origin and ETP enabled, is far superior than any other browser.
- A very well-implemented password manager (Disclaimer: I am a Bitwarden user. I don’t use Lockwise but have mostly seen positive feedback. So take it with a pinch of salt)
- Containers. Imagine it as multiple Chrome profiles but all present inside same window.
Cons of Firefox:
- Sandboxing isn’t really on par with Chromium-based browsers.
- Customization isn’t as straightforward as Vivaldi. It will take quite an effort to achieve everything you are looking for with css. It’s achievable but not easy.
I just want to find something with the ability to change location etc, especially for sites, Netflix, and so on.
I spend 95% of my time not gaming doing a lot of browsing. So having tools I want would be useful.
Nothing in Vivaldi prevents you from installing and using any of those extensions instead of the built-in functions. But installing a ton of extensions will lead to trouble, whereas the built-in features won’t (apart from occasional bugs for new features which will get fixed
I agree about mixing and matching, but don’t you find Pale Moon is slowish and doesn’t work on some sites? For examples, Google Docs doesn’t work for me with Pale Moon.
Mate there’s no browser in the world that has built-in vpn etc and if you want to just use any browser you can find like Edge, Chrome, Firefox or anything so long as you have Paid VPN for it but I do recommend asking people for VPNs that can be used to change location for Netflix
I don’t find it slow at all, but you’re right in that it doesn’t work as well on some google sites. And that’s a good thing. I actively avoid google as much as I can, since I do not want to support their oligopoly, anti-privacy, censorship, and agenda pushing. google trying to make the internet dependent on google should normally have been broken up long ago, just like Microsoft bundling IE with Windows. That was enough at one time. Now it’s google Android bundled with google chrome/chromium watching google youtube and googling stuff to send to friends with google mail. And that’s not even mentioning the underpinnings and standards they’ve transformed the internet with. WHATWG, web components, web assembly, google tag manager, google analytics, V8, Electron apps, etc.
So, in view of that. Here are alternatives to google docs: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-docs---word-processor/
It is easy for you to say don’t use Google, but I can’t use iCloud or Discord on Pale Moon 31.4.2 either, and I rely on those two websites daily.
Sorry, but there is something very backward about having to tell people not to use the sites they want to use.
Any good browser should allow the freedom to use the web the way I choose to, without hindering me because some companies are declared to be “bad”.
No, it’s generally accepted, or was, that sites should accommodate browsers, not browsers accommodating sites. You should contact iCloud and Discord to have them follow W3C standards.
I admire your idealism, but your suggestion is not practical or helpful.
