I have been using Vivaldi now for some years. I did try Firefox recently but its really lagged behind.

However for me, Vivaldi has a great productivity integration. We spend lot of time in browsers and having my mail, calendar and other things like that in one place does save me time.

It was my main reason to choose it.

Chrome / Chromium is a resource hog. I hate it and try to never use it

I've got major issues with Mozilla and Firefox

@tachan I decided to stick with Firefox as long as its features can be customized, since no fork can offer the same security guarantees in terms of rapid patching.

All AI features can be disabled directly in about:config (my choice)

askubuntu.com/posts/1556089/re…

or by using a ready-made configuration file

justthebrowser.com/firefox/

Revisions to How to disable all the AI features in Firefox to increase performance?

Q&A for Ubuntu users and developers

^{Stack Overflow}

I thought it was the reverse! 😯

So, I'll stick with Firefox (disabling IA features).

you’re more in control and aware of your settings this way. How is this a problem?

I’m using #Librewolf for months now and am very happy with it.

LibreWolf is firefox based, doesn't currently have AI, and supports uBlock (I think it may come by default but I install it a weird way so I'm not sure).

Can't tell you about the rest of it. Not sure if it not having AI is just a face thing or not, but I never have to look at it (except it's in all the search engines now too and librewolf clears preferences that turn it off by default).

When chrome first introduced tab hibernation, i noticed immediately and foiund the needed flags to disable that bullshit.

I only use chrome as the work computer browser, but that "feature" made my work day miserable.

Firefox imo is still great, provided you choose a fork that removes the things you don't want or need. Librewolf's been my daily driver for years and it works great.

librewolf.net/

LibreWolf Browser

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

^{librewolf.net}

I cannot really compare as I use Vivaldi as my primary browser with lots of tabs left open.

I use LibreWolf differently normally in private browsing mode for searches, route planning or reading the news.

Especially where a website makes you choose between accepting tracking or logging in.

I have other browsers installed for single uses - Chromium for Wire IM and nothing else.

I have noticed that the Helium browser (not using Helium services) feels much faster than Chromium.

the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal.

Absolutely not, pls compare with UngoogledChromium.

You can install UBlock from
github.com/gorhill/uBlock/rele… as an unpacked extension.
Switch on developer mode in the extensions page of Ungoogled.

No need to let play store track you

Releases · gorhill/uBlock

uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlock

^GitHub

I can't daily drive a Chromium browser; it feels weird. I have custom user.js and policies files for Firefox. When I place both in the right directories, I don't need to change a thing in the settings.

github.com/fahim-ahmed05/dotfi…

dotfiles/browser/firefox at main · fahim-ahmed05/dotfiles

My personal config files. Contribute to fahim-ahmed05/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub