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Föderation EN Sa 02.11.2024 16:32:04

Few months ago, I switched from #Firefox to #Vivaldi
Browser is not full Open-Source and is based on Chromium; nothing is perfect :ablobcatcoffee:

But I decided to gave it a chance because of the page tiling functionality I needed at this time and it was the only one browser I found giving me this option.
Of course, having 2 or more Firefox windows side-by-side is possible but it's really not the same.

So, since I started to use it, I also stopped to use Firefox :ablobcatknitsweats:
I think I've used Firefox for the last ~20years.
I still continue to use it a t the office, I still like it for miscellaneous reason even with controversies debated in last years, but from home now I use Vivaldi instead.

There's a lot of stuff I like with Vivaldi, main one are:

  • Ability to manage pages tiling :blobcatheart:
  • Ability to group tabs
  • All options provided to setup UI: the current setup of UI looks like exactly what I need (as the default one was.. let say for that's for me it was just not possible)
  • The integrated (but optional) email&rss client I need to test a little bit more [as I'm still really looking for an alternative to Thunderbird :blobcatpensive:]
  • It runs smoothly

I won't list all small things I never thought about before but that now I have under my keyboard/mouse it miss me when [at the office] I'm using another browser.

After, there's things I'm not fan but from the settings it's easy to hide/deactivate stuff I don't need.

The one thing that bothered me was, after using it form months and being really satisfied, I decided today to make a monthly donation (small one, 5.00eur/months, as I already donate for some other software/foundation) but it's not possible: this option require a Vivaldi account...
I already have too much account here and there and I don't want to create a new account just for that (and I don't need to have and account to user a browser)
Then I only did a one-time donation which can be made without account, better than nothing.

I'm not sure why @Vivaldi monthly donation require an account and one-time not?

#browser #vivaldi #vivaldibrowser

Föderation EN Mo 04.11.2024 10:26:56

@grum999

Thank you for using Vivaldi and for this nice review. :tony_happy:

To answer your question about donations. Recurring donations require login to your Vivaldi account, so you'd have an easy way to manage it (edit the amount, card details, etc.).
In addition, all logged in donators get a badge of appreciation. Maybe you've seen the teal and golden jewels next to some user's profile pictures on Vivaldi Social and the Forum.

But we are looking into ways to make it possible to set up an anonymous recurring donation as well.