So he traded Firefox for... basically Chromium.

It's not even open source. Being in Europe doesn't automatically grant you the privacy, let alone the free software rights.

I don't really have a lot of reason to believe that this will happen, but I wish Mozilla would back off the AI nonsense. I don't want to switch browsers. I think Vivaldi is actually very cool and is my go-to any time a site is misbehaving in FF, but not being FOSS is a big bummer to me.

That said, Vivaldi's built-in web panel feature is SO nice!!

Me, I'm sticking with LibreWolf. If Mozilla collapses, I hope they can keep on going without them.

I feel the author. I loved Firefox. Then it went downhill and I used Vivaldi for years.

I stick to Firefox again (Floorp, to be precise, Zen browser when I want to chill) just for diversity's sake and I'm fine with that.

Still, I am sad that Vivaldi runs with Chromium at it's core.

There are options if you want something like Firefox without the AI nonsense like waterfox and librewolf.

I enjoyed Vivaldi for a bit.

But the second time I opened it to find my tabs, browsing history, and literally all other user data, gone... Months apart, with thousands of saved bookmarks and hundreds of tabs lost each time.

I never went back. Deleting everything is just completely unacceptable.

I never found anyone else who'd had it happen, but twice was a pattern I didn't care to repeat.

i love firefox and librewolf but ive been using vivaldi more and more since their no ai stance combined with the fact theyre not a us company is really nice. you can also add adblock compatable filterlists to the built in tracker too. just wish they enabled extensions on mobile :(

From the article:

The inability to video conference reliably [on LibreWolf]

Could someone elaborate on this? Also

I like my browsers to remember when I have zoomed in on a tab

If she means the browser remembering the zoom levels on different pages, this can be done IIRC by disabling resist fingerprinting in about:config and then installing the canvas blocker addon which is not as good as RFP, but for me at least has been a good compromise privacy-wise.

Out of date info! Have a look at this instead: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1775

Always wanted to like Vivaldi. Like the aesthetic options but it always feels very bloated a browser. LibreWolf with uBlock can be enough to be highly useful and it feels leaner. I do miss the old Opera with the Presto engine, sigh.

"AI" is whatever (it's a meaningless buzzword - some "AI features" I like and some I don't care about) but proprietary is a dealbreaker.

Vivaldi is not free software and is therefore not worthy of consideration as a replacement for Firefox.

No. I avoid Chromium entirely. When there is a worthy contender to Firefox, I will check it out and weigh the options as well as do my research.

Chrome/Chromium has a monopoly on web browsing. And I will not support it.

If you are unhappy with firefox ceo or whatever, I would advise to use a fork like ironfox.

Right now firefox remains the best choice for internet freedom even after these "controversies".