Zen is still buggy, unfortunately. It was great when it was hot off the press, but they slowly pushed UI changes. They'd give you options to roll back the changes, but I would have preferred if they made the changes and gave you the option to opt into them.
I checked it out again the other day, and the newest update caused compact mode to disable every time I restarted the browser. Now I just use Floorp with in-line tabs activated. I love having one hybrid URL and tab bar, but I've never been a 100 tabs kind of guy so I have the room. I don't save my previous tab sessions.
I gotta check out some TUI browsers someday, I like the idea of being able to browse through my terminal. I've never heard of Pale Moon! I'm excited now and will be going to check it out ASAP.
There's a good amount of Firefox forks to tide us over, plus you could always check out QTWebEngine browsers. I hear Falkon has a decent reputation, and as a Vim user I love Qutebrowser. I got curious and just tried Falkon. The integrated adblock is quite good and I got a greasemonkey script that at least silenced and blacked out ads (it did not skip them, though).
Ah, no that's not it at all. I gotta see if I can look back to what happened. I think it was the Brave Rewards auto-contribute, though I'm seeing things like it accessing webcams without explicit permission. Ah, wait, it was the VPN. In 2023 they made an update that installed a paid VPN service on user's computers as well as turning on telemetry even for users that had turned it off. That caused a huge stir.
They also have a long loooong history of putting ads into their browser and their homepage and keeping the revenue, selling scraped data, and leaking DNS queries in their built in TOR browser from what I'm reading here.
Yeah, Floorp is my go-to right now. Its incredibly lightweight and has a lot of customization for how smooth it is. I am liking Librewolf though, just from how completely stripped down it is. There's barely anything unneeded in the options, its crazy. I think I'll still mainly use Floorp, though.
I'm on vanilla Arch as well (btw), but I had similar experiences on NixOS and CachyOS. I think its hardware related when it comes to Vivaldi. On Windows I'd BSOD and I had huge memory leak issues on NixOS.
I have to mess with Zen a bit more and see if its something I can fix. The lag isn't bad, its bog-standard for a browser, but after using Floorp and now Librewolf, I can definitely feel it.
I've been meaning to check out Jellyfin. I've been dabbling in Stremio lately and did look into Kodi for a bit. I think Plex is now pulling some shady business? So my next stop is Jellyfin.
Oh, no I doubt that as well. Like I said, the communities I ran in were all praising it and recommending it at the time. I've seen the graph charts for browser downloads. The top 3 are monoliths. But Brave did stand out for a time.
The closest thing I've found to Vivaldi tab management without installing a bunch of custom CSS and extensions is Zen Browser. Zen would be my favorite browser if it was a little lighter, but it's worth checking out if you like Vivaldi, imo.
Lol, yes I did. I only dropped Chrome completely when they dropped adblock support. Curiosity would always get me and I'd try Chrome-based browsers against my better judgement.
Holy. Its a good thing tabs can go inactive now, lol. I saw an extension that allowed you to convert tabs to lists so you didn't need them open and you could even port your tab lists to other devices without the need for syncing... I think it was called OneTab? Yeah, just checked.
I recommended it to a friend who is a similar tab user and he uses it quite a bit now.
I hear you. It really is that smooth. Some may disagree, but I don't think there's anything wrong in choosing Brave. Just be sure to go through your settings and make certain that there's nothing on that you don't want on. They have a tendency to do that to their users.
I believe there was an update a while back that even turned things on that had been turned off by the user previously, but they claim it was an accident. But with any browser you should always keep an eye on your settings after updating, anyway.
This looks like a good read. I'm sure many of the Firefox recommended settings can be applied to it's various forks, too. Thank you for this! I've got it bookmarked and will be checking it out soon.
Nothing wrong with that. Everyone has their own vision of what Firefox should be, and some just want the original experience.
Workplaces are the number one thing that keeps unpopular software afloat... at least you don't have to use it for anything personal. Chrome isn't unpopular, per se, but Google is definitely seeing a decline overall. I remember seeing an article that their search engine is actually losing % in numbers.
lol! I just grabbed librewolf-bin after talking about it here (actually, I've almost got it. I lost track and forgot to accept the yay prompts, lol).
Have you looked into creating your own local hosted homepage dashboard for tracking your servers and such? Its something I'm very interested in doing, but I need to learn from the ground up. There's so many AI answers now, much of it incorrect, that its getting more difficult to learn things on my own these days.
lol Poor IE. In the user setting that's all its good for. Good thing they still get businesses to use it. A big reason I love Linux is that it doesn't have Edge stuck to it like a leech and I don't even need a browser to get a browser (though I think this can also be accomplished in Windows if you know how).
Firefox and Brave was my duo for a long time, too.
I really love both of these browsers, I really do. They are amazing choices if you don't have the weird bugs and lag that I've unfortunately experienced. I still miss Vivaldi a lot.
I still occasionally check out Brave and it usually is quick and smooth every time. There was a time I solely used it for logins and personal applications.
Give Floorp a shot sometime, its so smooth and light if you're looking for something in the performance bracket.
Zen is still buggy, unfortunately. It was great when it was hot off the press, but they slowly pushed UI changes. They'd give you options to roll back the changes, but I would have preferred if they made the changes and gave you the option to opt into them.
I checked it out again the other day, and the newest update caused compact mode to disable every time I restarted the browser. Now I just use Floorp with in-line tabs activated. I love having one hybrid URL and tab bar, but I've never been a 100 tabs kind of guy so I have the room. I don't save my previous tab sessions.