just swapped back to Firefox, i really liked Brave no issues their but wanted to try somthing different, so tried vivaldi omg the odd user experience bugs there... Great features terrible support.
found a bug in 5 minutes reported it with 100% reproduicblity To be told its not a bug because somone else could not reproduce it.
Deleted Vivaldi,
thing i miss from Chrome varients is Grouping tabs WITHOUT an extension
Yep their bug report system is controversial.
Normal bug reporting systems give access to the bug tracking to the reporter, and you get to see developer responses.
It looks like with vivaldi instead its akin to a support ticket, basically it has to be triaged by a team of testers, who may well not be running with the same spec, same tabs, same websites etc. and if they cannot reproduce it is rejected. I have seen one example of where a tester using a mac closed a report that was created on a windows machine. Also I have been told if you do get a response, it will be from a tester acting as a middle man not a developer.
There is a thread discussing this on their forums, but its unlikely to be changed as the founder of vivaldi apparently wants the bug reports to work this way.
However though in terms of UI Vivaldi are the clear leader., they are the only one's that respect we dont all use touch screens so padding around icons, tabs etc. is minimal, and most of the UI is customisable. On the flip side the browser is definitely feature bloated and they keep releasing more and more features dragging the performance down. All the other chromium forks are too scared to move away from chrome UI design, Edge did add side tabs, but the padding Microsoft added reminds me of Windows 11, they have some kind of obsession with making all their software touch screen friendly.
Firefox is a mixed bag on the UI, there is limited customisation, you can fiddle with CSS to improve things, but the developers are seemingly eager to go with padding as well, they tried to remove their compact theme on the toolbar, but due to mass rejection from the user base they backed down however threw a strop stating it will be a unsupported option hidden by default.
Firefox is also still slow in my experience, even with not many tabs and a clean profile. However I am still moving some of my browsing back to it, as I think the chrome situation is getting out of hand and Firefox is the only real competitor, they need a bigger userbase to gain influence.