The mess that is 'default browser'

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 06:12:29AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 07/11/2021, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 at 10:38, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just out of interest, you do realise that Opera is now owned (and
> >> controlled?) by China, don't you?
> >>
> >> Some years ago, the Norwegian Opera company/organisation sold Opera to
> >> China.
> >
> > This is true.
> >
> > Some of the company founders now offer a new browser, Vivaldi. Both
> > are based on the Google engine from Chrome, though, as is MS Edge, now
> > available for Linux too.
> >
> >> Thence, I stopped using Opera.
> >
> >
> > Your choice. You might like Vivaldi, then.
> >
> 
> I have tried both vivaldi and brave, and, amongst other things, found
> them to be too demanding of resources.
> 
I've recently decided to migrate away from Firefox and have tried
Opera and Vivaldi.  At the moment I'm preferring Vivaldi, its
configurability is what I particularly like.  Compared with Firefox it
doesn't feel resource hungry though neither Firefox nor Vivaldi seemed
to stretch my computers all that much.

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Chris Green