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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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It sure does. One of the reasons I've picked it for now. I'm not fully settled on it yet, might try others later.
It's also anti-open web since it's just chromium. Nothing superior for your privacy over Firefox.
Please don't put words in my mouth. I didn't claim it was "superior for privacy". What I said was it appears to be the least-bad option for my specific use case right now.
Okay. Not sure what "shady stuff" means, but Chromium is certainly worse for the user in any way I can interpret as "shady".
It's vibes all the way down.
This is false. Vivaldi is on manifest v3 and runs its own internal rat race against ads. uBlock origin is neutered under Vivaldi just like all Chromium-based browsers.
The idea that you're satisfied on a downstream Chromium product but won't try downstream Firefox products is confusing. Librewolf is nearly best in class and dominates Vivaldi in almost every relevant metric.
Can you please explain in what way uBlock Origin is neutered under Vivaldi?
Note that I am, despite your assertion, using the full uBlock Origin, not the Google-friendly uBlock Origin Lite. Proof:
I suspect you may simply be confidently incorrect, but I'd be interested to learn in what way uBlock Origin has been neutered.
You are also incorrect with your assertion that I "won't try downstream Firefox products". I stated that I used Librewolf for months, but finally had to drop it as the tradeoffs for privacy vs compatibility were prohibitive for my use case.
I'd also love to see the "relevant metrics" to which you refer, please.
Seeing your screenshot I was curious how that works, so I spent a minute searching and found this post from June 2024 where Vivaldi says:
In my quick search I didn't find anything more recent about their schedule for dropping it, so I guess (assuming your software is up-to-date?) they haven't dropped it yet but presumably will do soon.
But in any case, Vivaldi is proprietary/closed-source, so, I recommend against using it.
Manifest v2 extensions are still very much working in Vivaldi. I'm on version "7.6.3797.63 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)" which is the version currently available for download directly from vivaldi.com.
I still want to try Floorp and Zen Browser before I settle on a for-now browser though. Eventually I'd like to be on something Servo-based, but Gecko would be preferable for now if I can find one that works for me.
So you're not going to answer my questions. Understood.