If I don't remember bad its just the GUI part, anyway for me is fundamental in my workflow due to its usabillity and productivity improvements.

For those interested in a GPL-licensed browser from Norway:

https://nordstjernen.org/index.html

Just checked it, and uBlock Origin still works in the latest version (as well as uMatrix and some other Mv2 extensions I had installed)

Give Ardia a try, its the closest I've seen to get an Arc like experience from a fully open source browser. Some small bugs still but development is very active and fixes are coming rapidly.

How does it hold up with many tabs opened VS chrome?

I am using Gentoo Linux (no systemd) with XFCE (on X11, no Wayland).

In this environment, Vivaldi never freezes, regardless what you do.

So what you see is not related to Linux, but it is due to an interaction with something else that you use, perhaps Gnome, if that is what you use for the graphic desktop.

You should look at your "Vivaldi Settings: Keyboard", at the key bindings. Perhaps your CTRL+F is bound to something that is wrong for your system.

I'm the kind of person who reinstalls linux to change distro and copies over my installation folder for my browser. A long time ago (back when it released in 2014/5) I would do this with windows too. Usually I would get to keep my browser perfectly intact, tabs and all.

That's harder on Linux, with Windows I usually had to only copy appdata for the user and everything would be flawless. I don't know exactly what's different with Linux Vivaldi installs, but it almost always breaks like this.

There are Singleton lock files in .config/vivaldi[-snapshot] that can be deleted if the profiles aren't protected by a keyring.

If the profiles are protected by either KWallet or Gnome-libsecret, you need to unlock that keyring before starting Vivaldi. If you moved to a KDE or Gnome desktop environment from something like Niri or Hyprland, or vice versa, this can happen.

With Vivaldi closed, back up ~/.config/vivaldi/ or ~/.config/vivaldi-snapshot, then try launching with the original backend:

vivaldi-stable --password-store=kwallet6

vivaldi-stable --password-store=kwallet5

vivaldi-stable --password-store=gnome-libsecret

vivaldi-stable --password-store=basic (only if the original profile used it; not recommended for regular use) I had to do this when I went from Hyprland to KDE Plasma and KDE Wallet made it so I couldn't open Vivaldi when I logged into the Hyprland session.

For KWallet/libsecret, the original wallet must also be available and unlocked.

I had the same thing when I switched from Gnome to Niri. In the end I got it fixed somehow, but I don't remember the exact details.

It was about how the default keyring was called, and that the name of the keyring ia actually case sensitive.

People have been trying stuff like this for almost 20 years now.

The core problem is that while people hold up that ads are the problem, the actual problem is that people like free stuff with no strings attached, i.e. have your cake (the content) and eat it too (nothing traded for it).

So when you present people an alternate way to compensate creators directly, they overwhelmingly just stick with ad blocking. There is a long case file of fools taking the internet at their word that "I want to give but the ads are so bad I can't!". They don't want to give lol

This[1] claims the average American is worth about $1605/year in ad revenue. It's a model, so it's certainly possible it is significantly off. That said if there was a credible system like this, I'd happily pay for even the right partial offering.

[1] https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth-to-google

I'm not sure why your ISP should be involved. Ideally they don't know what sites you're visiting. Your browser knows, though. And what you're describing is kind of what Brave tried to do with BAT (and kind of failed at).

How many websites do you go to a month? Hundreds? Thousands? And you want the ISP to handle the payment processing out to them? Many probably international? And each ISP doing this on their own?

Speaking as someone who managed to get uncle Murdoch to sponsor writing an adblocker/payment tool similar to yours (while I was working at an adtech business), but then got stalled by the publishers (who on avg. hated ads), specifically the direct supply sales people (who tend to have louder voices in those companies, have mortgages to pay) -- the issue is systemic.

ISPs are already selling your data to a bunch of data brokers, I don't think ad spend is the only goal there.

Well, your ISP likely _doesn't_ know which sites you are going to.

In the old days, they'd run proxies, but with SSL, they no longer know where they are going, only that they are, for example, going to an AWS or GCP site.

Calculating shares is basically impossible from DNS records and easily abusable.

That is basically the whole premise of the Brave browser though.

In that forum it says that you must edit the parameters of the command line with which Vivaldi is launched by your graphic desktop to get scrolling, if that is what you want.

I am pretty sure that the middle mouse button is not broken in Vivaldi on Linux.

It probably just has a different default behavior than what you expect, e.g. the middle button might have been allocated by default to mouse gestures, not to clipboard or scrolling or whatever you expect.

I am using Vivaldi, but I do not remember which was its default behavior, because I no longer use mice, but a stylus on a small graphic tablet, and I reconfigured Vivaldi for the buttons of my Wacom stylus.

In any case, if I had been using a mouse, I would have wanted to allocate the middle button to mouse gestures, because those are much more useful than the uses of the middle button for the X clipboard or for scrolling.

I wouldn't publicly admit to doing things like this. Willingly foregoing updates for internet-connected software (especially your web user agent) is considered harmful.

You could be using Firefox with MV2 extensions instead which would sound far less ridiculous than "I am using Vivaldi (Chromium) while refusing to (ever) update it"

I checked it, and 8.1, 8.2 and the latest 8.3 all support Mv2 extensions (tested with uBlock Origin, uMatrix and some other niche extensions I use). Don't know where you got the info about 8.0 being the last to support mv2, but it's clearly wrong :D

clicking this reply from 8.3.4191.23 with MV2 and uBO working fine. Vivaldi added workaround ignoring Google code that removed needed APIs.

You can. You can also try out Ladybird or any of the Fx's forks.

I quit Firefox after a long ride because I got tired of slow loading times, and scrolling that I wasn't able to fix. No matter the settings it's still not as good as in Chrome.

Firefox is much worse in customizations in basics like keyboard and mouse controls