this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
1049 points (97.6% liked)

Technology

59295 readers
4310 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Switched to Vivaldi last year and haven't looked back. Did some side by side with FireFox for a month or two on my phone. I have a cheap 2022 Moto G something or other, running whatever Android it shipped with.

I guess that like a lot of people, I don't like having apps tracking stuff, but my work requires me to have access to Facebook, Insta, Threads, and the like... so, I just use browser shortcut widgets for them instead (I should quit my job, I know, I know... working on it). Both Firefox and Vivaldi immediately figured out that I wanted to run them in containers so that was great. However, Vivaldi runs all of them so smooth where as Firefox just kind of stumbles around. Some of them would refuse to work some days, just bringing up the web browser container and then crash. Facebook dot com was the worst... there were issues with the UI not showing me the text input bubbles and latency with button presses was terrible... like needing a refresh to show a "like" or even that a notification was read. It was almost unusable. Bizarrely, Outlook was also bad on FireFox... like that's a fairly bog standard email client and "productivity" site, but on FireFox it would crash more than it worked. Vivaldi handles all of the sites/platforms I need like I'm running the apps.

Maybe it's something with my cheap ass phone and Motorola's bloatware, but Firefox crashed and burned more than it worked. I cannot recommend Vivaldi enough.

[–] steve_floof@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In other news: stop using Netscape

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey, anybody know the best browser for Windows Mobile 6.5?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Chinese spyware, has been for years now.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] MrFunkEdude@piefed.social 16 points 9 months ago (7 children)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] RandomPancake@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I remember way back in the late 90s or early 2000s, when Opera was commercial, I bought a lifetime license. I don't remember the specifics but it was basically a way to support them and it was good for all future versions, forever and ever.

I lost the key long ago and the browser is free now anyway. Still wouldn't use it.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

God damn it. I just switched to Opera because of the "Hey get off Chrome" posts like 2 weeks ago.

I have Firefox installed but don't love it. Need a "and the next closest good mobile browser is X"

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What is Firefox lacking for you to love it?

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Lutra@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

late to the party, but I had OperaGX do a clever evil thing recently - I have an old machine running MacOS 10.14 (for reasons), I had GX up, and I alt-tab'd and noticed there was the "don't symbol" (ghostbusters) over the OperaGX Icon. I thought, "that can't be right". I'm running GX right now. I double checked, and I was using GX with several windows open. But the symbol was right - they had Updated OperaGX that I WAS running, WHILE I was running it, to a version that WOULDN'T work on the computer I was on. I eventually restarted GX, and got a 'You can't use OperaGX with this version of MacOS". Jerks.

I dug around, and very roughly, the .app file is not the App. They use a folder off in Library to store the actual pieces of the app, and it there is a few different pieces, and the .app file points to the actual executables.

Anyway it was fun while it lasted. Never again.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

the last time when I used Opera browser was on my Sony Ericsson W580i and C702i

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Somebody here is going to have a reason: why shouldn’t I use Safari?

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 15 points 9 months ago

While inferior to Firefox due to reason outlined by another user, it is infinitely better than going with Chromium-based browsers.

Keep on using it if you feel comfortable with it

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›