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".

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.