I have been using 3 browsers for over a year, Chromium, Vivaldi and Firefox. That’s one too many. What has brought this whole situation to a head is I also have a couple of wireless mice, Microsoft Mobile Mouse 4000. They are dependable and work well except somewhere in the kernel updates scroll distance diminished dramatically (I think from kernel 4.19 to 5.0). I used imwheel for a while, but it adjusts everything and I only want to speed up scrolling within browsers. Slower speed/distance in Dolphin is a blessing. I tried editing the browser desktop files by adding --scroll-pixels=nnn to the Exec= line, but that’s not a good solution.
Firefox has the wonderful about:config settings page where I can control scroll distance with “mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount”. Chromium and Vivaldi no. I’ll keep Chromium as a backup and for its tight Google interfacing. So goodbye Vivaldi, you’re one Chromium based browser too many. It was a good run for a year.
Mozilla/Firefox, never get rid of about:config. Please. Chromium based browsers are a pain in the @$$ to modify for user requirements. If my life wasn’t so interwoven with the Google/Android environment I’d chuck Chromium too.
currently i use firefox too now understand what firefox sync works lol, so have it also on mobile i dont mind general change of heart can be good sometimes
I only now started using Firefox sync. Before I did manual sync. I’m also trying Firefox private network for Firefox browser sessions. It works, but there are some delays and every now and then it hangs and I have to kill the browser session. I expect that from an experimental beta program and am not disappointed. Overall it works pretty good and is easy to turn off and on.
I currently use two browsers; Vivaldi for Netflix and other daily tasks (synced on all my devices), and FireFox (I would prefer WaterFox, but it has problems right now), unsynced and FireJailed.
Of cource I use a VPN (and sometimes all of this in a VR-Box using the computer naked in a Farraday Cage wearing a tin foil hat).
thought I would add a note in favor of Brave. Brave often allows access to sites that demand turning off an ad-blocker. (am not intending to spark a debate over use of ad-blockers)
Neat find. The urls appear to work for chromium too if you substitute “chrome” for “vivaldi”. Useful, but not as extensive control as Firefox. I couldn’t find mouse settings.
I used double browsers for a long time, for the sole reason of “if a page doesn’t work in Firefox, switch to (insert Chromium based browser here)”.
Right now I am only using Firefox, tho. Basically if a page doesn’t work in Firefox, they don’t need me as a reader / customer.
You cannot trust a web browser with an embedded adblocker. You cannot be judge and jury at the same time. I do not trust this adblocker. How can I be sure it will block any single ad?
There’s a huge conflict of interest here. Can you think one second that Brave - which is a shell for Blink render engine - will bite the hand that feeds it?
And I do really appreciate the final straw man fallacy. Who is behind Blink? Google… So Brave cannot be trust.
What brave just do is open a market, by watching adds you earn something its a different market share.
as adblockers they are also not waterproof as the ads technology tries also they way to surpass add blocking technology…
since we got a choice, brave has just its own market
since its also make youtube video’s you also want much as possible subscribers, its technicaly same principal, but if to much uses its browser things get changed and users fired up
Blink is open source. Anyone can use it, it’s not a “hand that feeds them”. Also, Opera’s built in adblocker (they are also using the blink engine) works perfectly.
Again, Blink is open source. You don’t like Google, fine. But your statement is just false.
