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.

There are cool answers to “what are you replacing Firefox with?”

A Blink-based browser is such a lame answer. It just contributes to furthering Google’s control over the space.

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.

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.

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Out of date info!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.