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Funny timing for me to see this on HN today After some years of love/hate relationship with Vivaldi, I'm currently trying (once again...) to go back to Firefox

by k_ 4y ago

Funny timing for me to see this on HN today After some years of love/hate relationship with Vivaldi, I'm currently trying (once again...) to go back to Firefox after one too many chrome-based browsers fuck-up: opening Edge in a windows VM suddenly got my RAM usage up by 32GB, which were shared with my non-VM chrome-based browsers (chromium, vivaldi). First time just crashed my whole computer, second time I had to kill it all (the memory usage moved to chromium and then vivaldi when I closed the VM). Vivaldi performance issues (and some bugs) was already putting me on the edge very often, but I really like the features so switching is very hard and will take a lot of time getting used to. Mouse gestures, panels, integrated mail (took way too long to come), tab stacking/tiling, command palette, etc. Sure some of these have firefox extensions doing something similar but it's still far from being the same.

frebord 4y ago
Recently started Vivaldi and it's pretty nice! I switched because it's the only decent browser that I can remove the address bar and use it only with a hot key. So far it seems fast enough and haven't run into bugs. It does have a ton of features that I'll never use that I wish were extensions or something
- k_ 4y ago
  I'm experimenting with that right now on firefox with userChrome.css changes, and it's starting to work: /* Kinda unrelated, but I'm using this to go with Sidebery / Tree Style Tab */ #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; } /* Hide the whole top bar */ #nav-bar { position: fixed; top: -10vh; width: 100%; z-index: 1; height: 0; min-height: 0 !important; } #urlbar-container:focus-within, #search-container:focus-within { position: fixed; top: 15vh; left: 50%; background: #111; outline: 4px solid #f8b218; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1em; transform: translateX(-50%); width: 40vw; border-radius: 4px; } Top bar stays hidden, but url bar / search bar appear when I press ctrl+l / ctrl+k. Likely need to tweak css to your likings, and you need to set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config to enable userChrome.css (you can find various guides on that if needed)

by k_ 4y ago

frebord 4y ago

Recently started Vivaldi and it's pretty nice! I switched because it's the only decent browser that I can remove the address bar and use it only with a hot key. So far it seems fast enough and haven't run into bugs. It does have a ton of features that I'll never use that I wish were extensions or something

k_ 4y ago
I'm experimenting with that right now on firefox with userChrome.css changes, and it's starting to work: /* Kinda unrelated, but I'm using this to go with Sidebery / Tree Style Tab */ #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; } /* Hide the whole top bar */ #nav-bar { position: fixed; top: -10vh; width: 100%; z-index: 1; height: 0; min-height: 0 !important; } #urlbar-container:focus-within, #search-container:focus-within { position: fixed; top: 15vh; left: 50%; background: #111; outline: 4px solid #f8b218; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1em; transform: translateX(-50%); width: 40vw; border-radius: 4px; } Top bar stays hidden, but url bar / search bar appear when I press ctrl+l / ctrl+k. Likely need to tweak css to your likings, and you need to set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config to enable userChrome.css (you can find various guides on that if needed)