@jon cool to see that Vivaldi is well accepted. Where would Vivaldi stand today on a worldwide level? I can't find it on https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-202310-202410-bar

It's probably included in Chrome or 'Other'?

Medien: 1

@jon I use Google chrome and have no issues with it. I suspect most people use the browser their equipment comes with and do not care too much about it, so the survey results only reflect people who feel very strongly about it. Still some surprising results.

@jon I'm excited about the Servo project: https://servo.org
They're also on the fediverse: https://floss.social/@servo

I really think more engine diversity is a good thing.

@jon Yet another web dev here. Just wanted to say (and thank you for) that I firmly believe that @Vivaldi is, hands down, the absolute best browser out there, for most people at least, despite having voted for Firefox, which I still use as my daily driver (despite Mozilla's best efforts to the contrary) simply to avoid ending with a browser engine mono-culture. We all know how well things went the last time we ended with one (circa IE6 era) but I do love Vivaldi to pieces, truth be told.

@jon Next time, please you add Brave browser. It's pretty cool. But, if you repair adblock in Vivaldi, then Your browser is the Best in my opinion.

@jon I've been with @ArcBrowser for some weeks (2-3months) and my experience was mixed. Suffering the Windows side of things, and surprised by the efficient UI. I decided to switch finally for Firefox, setting the Vertical Tab Flag feature. Not perfect, but still feeling on the edge (not Edge :-) )

@jon Are more smaller, lesser-known browsers really a good choice? I always have doubts when people switch to the latest new shiny browser that nobody knows about. Browsers have access to a lot of sensitive data, like passwords. The next shiny new browser could always also be a scam.

@jon I would have guessed Firefox would be lower and Other would be higher. But that just might be my own bias.

@jon
> only because they do not want to use a Chromium based browser.

Completely legit, this was the reason I switched 5 years ago. Didn't want a chromium based browser, that will eventually turn off manifest v2.
Luckily forks with workarounds were made, but I got so used to firefox that I see no reason to go back!

@jon Fascinating. I selected two! Firefox (should have gone other as I use Waterfox on Windows and Linux) but my main browser has and will be Safari as I daily drive a Mac to get stuff done.

@jon
Thank you for your interesting survey.

Of course, such surveys cannot be representative, but they do show trends.

5027 participants are not exactly a small number.

Perhaps we will be able to recruit even more people from the 'Fediverse' for further surveys. ;-)

At least 'Vivaldi' has caught up with Apple's Safari.
But I would have liked to see a lot more in favour of Vivaldi.

Even if this can only ever be a snapshot.

I confess that I have "mobilised" something for Vivaldi.
Maybe it has made a difference.

I would have found it rather stupid if Vivaldi had been left behind Apple's Safari, especially on 'Mastodon'.

Further surveys will remain exciting.