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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.

                  Firefox but I've recently discovered Pale Moon which is an interesting project. I use Pale Moon with nMatrix, HTTPS Always and uBlock Origin(legacy). In Firefox I have uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere & NoScript. On top of that I've tweaked about:config to the teeth.

                    Brucehankins Don't know why I was drawn in the notion of separation but my gut told me to do it. Also there was something about browser containers I cannot wrap my head around. Either way, it feels right.

                      It doesn't make sense to me to use three or four different browsers. That means three or four installations (at a minimum, if all goes right), three or four configurations, and three or four sets of processes eating up RAM.

                      Many browsers allow you to start multiple instances. For example, I install and configure just one browser on my computers, but I run as many as three instances of that one browser, with each instance in its own workspace (and I could run more, but three are actually all I need, so far).

                      Vivaldi, for instance, presents this context menu on a right-click to any Vivaldi icon in the Task Manager:

                      By then clicking on the New Window button, I can put a new instance of Vivaldi in the empty workspace I've previously selected. In all I have three workspaces where an instance of Vivaldi runs on my laptop... one for financial matters, one for the Solus forum and related sites, and one for miscellaneous browsing, such as online shopping.

                      The same extension (LastPass) is used by each instance, as are all the same settings, and I've needed to do only one installation and configuration. And I needed to learn well only one browser's secrets and idiosyncrasies.

                        I'm using Opera on Solus and Opera Touch on Android. Great pair. Extensions: translator (in sidebar) and bitwardern

                        WetGeek That's interesting. Please tell me more when it's convenient.
                        One browser (instances of) in multiple workspaces?
                        How truly isolated are the work spaces from each other? Are workspace cookies separated like containers? Besides the giveaway that is LastPass, any canvassing would see multiple profiles or a different configured browser for each work space?
                        If one tab (for ex.) was banking, another work, another news, etc----then these workspaces are not cross-tracked being in the same browser? Workspaces function as browser containers, in theory? edit: sp

                            brent

                            I wish I could give you better answers, but I don't even understand some of the questions or terms like cross-tracked. I can only say that from one workspace that contains a Vivaldi instance to another that contains a different Vivaldi instance, I've never seen any interference from one to the other.

                            I do believe that the settings are common, but I've never researched that. I do know the extension is common, which is the way I want it. I have about 300 passwords stored in LastPass, and I wouldn't want to manage multiple versions of that. So I suspect that if you needed them configured entirely differently, you'd need different browsers, each with its own collection of settings and extensions.

                            I've never investigated the idea any farther, though, because what I described in my previous message works exactly the way I need it to work.

                                WetGeek that's ok. I have a hard time asking precisely sometimes--too wrapped up in conceptual I guess. was talking about cookies and what isolation/separate actually means when it comes to workspaces. Containers is a feature many users use on their browsers. Sorry to confuse you, I was not clear. Thanks for your answer.