[taylodl]

I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi. Yes, Vivaldi. There are some folks here complaining it has a lot of bloat and while that's true, I don't care. I like it. Why?

* Based on Chrome. Unfortunately there's a lot of truth to the statement that "Chrome is the new IE", from the standpoint that modern sites are optimized (and tested) to run on Chrome.

* The sidebar. Downloads, bookmarks, etc. are quickly available in a simple pull-out.

* Speed Dial. Sounded corny when I first installed Vivaldi, now I love it. YMMV.

* Tab Stacking. If you're like me and have lots of tabs open, this is a great feature.

* Notes. Tracking notes on a page is an awesome feature!

People say Vivaldi is slow, but I haven't noticed it being slow to render sites - it's slow to launch. How often do you launch your browser though? At least for me the browser is one of the few always-running programs I run. There is a performance issue I've noticed in making YT videos run full-screen - there's a very noticeable lag especially if you have several tabs open. So far that hasn't been enough to outweigh the positives.

[thunderbong]

And it has ad blocking and disables tracking by default.

Regarding the slowness, I don't experience it. I just checked, and I have 506 tabs opened.