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The real killer feature for me is Firefox's bookmark handling. Bookmarks are easy to create, use, edit, reshuffle, and export. I create bookmarks in Firefox and use them natively there, but also export them to HTML for use in other browsers. I have a self-made, HTML "fast dial" that I use as my home page, and it has a link to the HTML version of my Firefox bookmarks, so I can easily use the same bookmarks in the same groups in Firefox, Vivaldi, and Brave, and that process is only a little clunkier in Brave and Vivaldi than in Firefox, so it works for me. So far this is the best arrangement that I've found. Vivaldi is an interesting but confusing beast, one I've tried and given up on many times since it first came out, but overall it's too complex for me to use as my main browser. And really slow to load. Brave is fast to start up, and I do often use it for quick lookups, but it does some things I often do in its own goofy, awkward way, things that are trivial and much more intuitive for me in Firefox, so I'm sticking with the big F for now. |
It seems to read a fair amount of data from the drive on startup and with a mechanical drive it really is very slow, with a SSD it is not bad and maybe a second for startup, but it is sort of the browser equivalent to a massive IDE and performance is put more on use than startup. It is large and complex and generally exactly what I avoid in software but the tab groups and note system hooked me, I was using surf for general browsing before that so it was quite a change.