elfprince Unfortunately, when it comes to sensitive operations, like banking, CRA/IRS, etc, they only accept Firefox, Chrome, etc.
Same with Netflix.

That seems strange to me. I use Vivaldi for banking, stock brokerage, Netflix, BritBox, Disney+ and much more. It's what powers my streaming machine. It's even better than I expected.

For a long time I'd used two different browsers (Firefox and Opera), in two separate workspaces on my Windows laptop, each with assigned tasks. It used to be Firefox for news, Twitter, broker, and banking, and Opera for ad hoc browsing (motorcycle racing, soccer, F1 and such).

Turns out, when one starts Vivaldi, it not only remembers the sites from the last session, but even remembers the workspace where it was last started. Thus, when last used in workspace 2, for example, it restarts with the tabs that were previously open in workspace 2. When restarted in workspace 3, it remembers the tabs that were last open in workspace 3. I don't know if that's by design, but it works that way for me.

Formerly I used Opera because I found its "speed dial" feature very useful. Recently, I've discovered that Vivaldi offers that as well. These days I have even less reason to use any other browser.

In my experience, most browsers simply change to the instance that's already open when started a second time. Given this useful characteristic of Vivaldi, I no longer need to use two different browsers, but just two instances of Vivaldi. And I totally eschew Chrome, because Google already has plenty of personal information about me. They don't need any more.

      I've actually transitioned to Vivaldi amazingly. As some may know I've been a Chrome fanboy since their first testing releases all those years ago. I'm enjoying Vivaldi now that I've got it tweaked a bit!

        elfprince

        Sorry, I've never thought to check that. Vivaldi is an extension of Chromium, as is Opera and so many others, if that gives you a clue. And thanks to this forum for introducing me to Vivaldi. It's now the only browser I need, whether on Linux machines or on my Windows laptop.

          Justin Sounds exactly like me. Curious what tweaks you've made to Vivaldi maybe worth mentioning here? Other then just a few Chrome store extensions, I don't think I've really needed to tweak Vivaldi much, other than making sure it syncs everything, having a customized start page of my favorite websites, etc.

              Scotty-Trees Wish there was a command to say what's not default in config. 😃

              • I turned off coloured tabs
              • Customised the theme fit in with Arc GTK theme
              • Disabled middle mouse button to show previews on click the bottom of a tab (purely to stop me continously doing it by accident)
              • Changed Ctrl L to Alt D for accessing address bar (Chrome default, so used to it)
              • Disabled download notifications
              • Turned on sync (I'm really liking their sync, Google's takes forever, not sure why, Vivaldi's is super fast)

              That's all I can think of off the top of my head, oh and I turned on dark mode for the interface.

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                firefox 🔥 🦊
                plus vivaldi as a side-by-side experience.also use seamonkey and palemoon at times.

                Scotty-Trees I don't think I've really needed to tweak Vivaldi much

                I/ve tried most of the popular browsers, and settled on Vivaldi for all of my computers, even the Windows VMs I keep available for those rare programs that can't run on Linux (e.g., Ring and Nook). It's the browser that requires the fewest changes to its settings whenever I set up a new OS installation, and in my experience its function in flawless.

                  Still Firefox and Vivaldi on PC and mobile.

                  xjdwc It looks like a firefox with uBlock origin & duckduck go preinstalled and some telemetry settings changed.
                  I don't see the aim of a fork for installing a couple of extensions and changing the value of a few keys in about:config

                      kyrios I tried to use Librewolf daily for about a week or more. I liked it. They ripped out telemetry and pocket, and clipboard function, and some other ghack.js--type changes in about:config. It's a great privacy browser but it's rarely updated so that's worrisome in a way.
                      Also: I could do all they things they did in about:config in my native Solus updated FF, so I did. 🙂 Ergo, no more wolf for regular browsing.
                      Plus I think uMatrix is 1000X better>uBlockOrigin (the librewolf default extension).

                        Firefox with Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, BitWarden and the about:config altered on several key issues not usually mentioned here. WebRTC, saved sessions, couple other things)

                        I am a Vivaldi Ambassador but when I use Vivaldi I am using it for specific purposes. I have both stable and snapshot versions but use them for different things. Opening up either Vivaldi opens up a preset of multiple web panels, extensions (those mentioned in Firefox plus 3-9 others depending on which Vivaldi I am using), pinned tabs, and several tab stacks grouped into relevant sites, PLUS Vivaldi has a setting which allows any browser tabs you had open prior to open once again.

                        Some people call Vivaldi bloated for the reasons I just mentioned. In my eyes that bloat is a feature, not a bug. When I open Vivaldi it is for specific purposes. When I open Firefox it is just to browse. I want my default browser to be fast to open. The way I use Vivaldi causes it to not open fast but that is by design.. opening Vivaldi for me opens up anything I am working on the way I want to be working on it.

                        That said I would hope that Gnome continues building on Gnome Web. I would prefer to use that browser but found that every tab opened exponentially made things slower.

                          jrsilvey Swap brave for Vivaldi and we are using the same browsers for the same surface reasons. FF just for surfin, the other for business. And keeps the cross tracking cookies confused. I've been really in to separating browser-per-function lately.

                          jrsilvey That said I would hope that Gnome continues building on Gnome Web. I would prefer to use that browser

                          I miss that one, too. A great second/third browser and I'm sorry we had to deprecate it. I did not noticed the sluggishness, but as its so light in nature, I never had more than 3 tabs open. For light and easy I would ditch Falkon in a heartbeat if Epiphany (old name, I know) came back.

                              It's funny how many people have a surfing and definitive purpose browser. I use Opera for all my personal stuff and Edge for work.