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Vivaldi is even better than Chrome.

tonyr6

tonyr6

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I started using Chrome on my new MacBook Air 15. I then decided to use the Edge browser and uninstall Chrome. The Edge browser was terrible. Always pushing Bing and Ai. More bloated. I finally uninstall it when it refused to update anymore.

I went back to Chrome and right away I noticed it was twice as fast I loading pages. I then tried Vivaldi. I had to heavily tweak it and turn off the tracking option which caused 503 errors but all of my Chrome extensions worked. I liked how I can load pages for quick use on the start page where only Chrome allows only around six. I am still keeping Chrome and Firefox but I never going back to Edge.
 
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Vivaldi, Edge, Opera and Chrome all use the Chromium browser base (developed by Google) so page loading really should be pretty much identical between them all. Chromium browsers really just come down to the UI and added on features between them, but the underlying engine is all the same (thats why all your plugins work).

Safari uses the WebKit base/engine (developed by Apple), there are other browsers that use this as well but not many left on Desktop mostly mobile.

Firefox uses the Quantum base/engine (developed by Mozilla), Firefox is the only one using it

Waterfox uses the Gecko base/engine (developed by Mozilla), a few other browsers are still using it but it's the old pre 2017 Firefox engine and isn't really updated much anymore.
 
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I use Edge and changes the settings to disable AI, Bing, etc. Previously I use Chromium but uninstalled it due to Netflix declined to run on it. They’re both have similar performance (if Edge settings were fine-tuned).
 
SnowCrocodile said:
True. Most mainstream Chrome-based browsers are better than Chrome. It was always resource-hungry, but lately turned into a real monstrosity.
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Except Edge. That browser is even more bloated and even slower than Chrome. Avoid it. It is also very buggy even the stable version.
 
I am not saying Edge is so slow you can't browse. I just noticed when I switched to Chrome and later Vivaldi the web pages loaded twice as fast than with Edge. I also did not like how Edge would log me out of YouTube every week.
 
I use edge (previously Chrome) because it can open Netflix. It seems Vivaldi is still not compatible (just checking, haven’t tried yet).
 
Other browsers are cool, but I don't think I'll ever be able to switch away from the Safari (personal)/Firefox (work) combo I have going on. Multi-Account Containers (aka per-tab profiles) have proven indispensable in my job as a Mac and Google Admin.
 
I'm trying out Vivaldi. I have both chrome and chrome beta installed. Anyone knows how I can import specifically from chrome beta rather than chrome. I want bookmarks and passwords and tabs brought over

EDIT: I ended up manually exporting and importing bookmarks and passwords

Anyway, I noticed that with just 2 tabs opened Vivaldi helper (GPU) is already the highest mem user, higher than chrome helper (GPU) with 2 windows and like 20 tabs. What the heck? It seems fast enough, but that could be because it's brand new and not loaded with history and extensions. I don't know, guys.
 
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Vivaldi is terrific, isn't it? I've been using it as my primary browser for several years; in terms of features and functionality, it's my favorite. Unfortunately, Vivaldi likely isn't the best option for privacy and security, at least not by default.

For a detailed comparison of browser security, you'll want to see this site:

Privacy Tests

It's worth your time.
 
I'm testing Vivaldi. Although I disabled autoupdate and translation, at every start Vivaldi wants to connect to update.vivaldi.com downloads.vivaldi.com update.googleapis.com
Is there a way to make it stop?
 
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