Now that Vivaldi finally has to let go of Manifest v2 (fuck you, Google!) gave their builtin ad blocker a chance. It seems to work fine for most things, except YouTube shorts. I occasionally scroll through those and basically every second video is an ad that would have been blocked by uBlock Origin. How can people tolerate that?
I guess if that happens to other websites, I really need to figure out which Firefox fork best matches the things I liked about Vivaldi (websites in sidebar, workspaces/tab groups, good performance, no AI bullshit)
AFAIK Firefox forks aren’t too different from Firefox feature-wise. It’s hard to make substantive changes to Firefox, so most forks like Librewolf or Waterfox slightly change default settings and extensions, but not sidebars and other cosmetics.
So unfortunately, there is probably no Firefox browser that would have Vivaldi’s features.
Maybe you could try uBlock Origin Lite? It’s Manifest v3 compliant, and I don’t remember having any issues with YouTube shorts using it. I use it on “optimal” filtering mode
Thanks but that’s not what I’m looking for. I have my tabs on top. What Vivaldi has is an additional sidebar that lets you display arbitrary websites inside that sidebar while the active tab from the main tab bar still takes up most of the browser window.
I find that quite useful for stuff like a feed reader, notes or a password manager. For a while I also had mastodon in the sidebar but found it too distracting. Basically every website with proper responsive design works.
firefox with vertical tabs on and ai killswitch on has all those features
you can also try ungoogled chromium where you can still install ublock, they give you a tutorial link on first launch
although idk if it cando vertical tabs
I use FF Ultima, it’s all the modern polished things i liked about zen with none of the perceived downsides and highly customisable, even supports the new side by side Tab Feature Firefox added recently.
This has been the cleanest browser experience i’ve had as of today when paired with sideberry, ublock, clean-urls and decentraleyes
in addition to what not_IO said, depending on your needs Firefox has tab groups, containers for isolating cookies, and fully separate profiles for when you need different addons, bookmarks and browsing history
Now that Vivaldi finally has to let go of Manifest v2 (fuck you, Google!) gave their builtin ad blocker a chance. It seems to work fine for most things, except YouTube shorts. I occasionally scroll through those and basically every second video is an ad that would have been blocked by uBlock Origin. How can people tolerate that?
I guess if that happens to other websites, I really need to figure out which Firefox fork best matches the things I liked about Vivaldi (websites in sidebar, workspaces/tab groups, good performance, no AI bullshit)
AFAIK Firefox forks aren’t too different from Firefox feature-wise. It’s hard to make substantive changes to Firefox, so most forks like Librewolf or Waterfox slightly change default settings and extensions, but not sidebars and other cosmetics.
So unfortunately, there is probably no Firefox browser that would have Vivaldi’s features.
Maybe you could try uBlock Origin Lite? It’s Manifest v3 compliant, and I don’t remember having any issues with YouTube shorts using it. I use it on “optimal” filtering mode
Actually, zen browser has by default tab side bars. They change quite a bit.
They have workspaces that can default to open certain containers that makes use of Mozilla’s multi container add-on.
Have a look at zen browser @dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
Thanks but that’s not what I’m looking for. I have my tabs on top. What Vivaldi has is an additional sidebar that lets you display arbitrary websites inside that sidebar while the active tab from the main tab bar still takes up most of the browser window.
I find that quite useful for stuff like a feed reader, notes or a password manager. For a while I also had mastodon in the sidebar but found it too distracting. Basically every website with proper responsive design works.
Oh, my bad, I misunderstood. It’s been a long while since I used Vivaldi.
firefox with vertical tabs on and ai killswitch on has all those features
you can also try ungoogled chromium where you can still install ublock, they give you a tutorial link on first launch although idk if it cando vertical tabs
I use FF Ultima, it’s all the modern polished things i liked about zen with none of the perceived downsides and highly customisable, even supports the new side by side Tab Feature Firefox added recently.
This has been the cleanest browser experience i’ve had as of today when paired with sideberry, ublock, clean-urls and decentraleyes
Or Helium (Ungoogled Chrome + uBlock + some changes from other chromium based browsers): https://github.com/imputnet/helium
It can do vertical tabs by setting Browser Layout to Vertical in settings\appearance. Tabs can be manually grouped. It also has split view.
Currently in beta, but for some minor tasks that needed exactly chromium I downloaded it and it worked.
in addition to what not_IO said, depending on your needs Firefox has tab groups, containers for isolating cookies, and fully separate profiles for when you need different addons, bookmarks and browsing history