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Mozilla Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN, with a catch (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Vivaldi has had a "light" proton VPN for a while.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

And this is relevant how?

If I wanted Blink trash, I would not be using Firefox

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I consider Vivaldi as my backup choice if there is ever something to happen to Firefox. I've tried it several times and it's fine, but I still just prefer Firefox. It just works better.

What annoys me is that Vivaldi entirely depends on Google's extensions store and that sucks. For that I actually like Opera more as they have their own that is not controlled by Google, but the browser has few really dumb issues and design choices, like why is fucking Google Search the only option in Start page?

So, yeah almost no matter what I try there's just always something dumb and I then return to Firefox.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

In my experience, Vivaldi buckles under a heavy load. It feels clunky, like the team tried to develop a browser within a browser*, and all the added features like an email client inside of it probably don't help.

* I'm pretty sure the whole UI is like an Electron app in there, which might explain the bizarre behavior that's usually handled decently by other forks: Tab handling, keyboard shortcuts, etc

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