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I was trying to sign in to my Adobe account to use Behance for job hunting, but the site login seems totally broken… So I went to try logging in from Adobe.com, but the site doesn’t even load with Safari on Mac.

Adobe.com works fine with Vivaldi (Chromium)... So I guess we’re back to the IE6 era of only supporting the monopoly browser? Maybe they are still bitter about Apple killing Flash?

When I used Firefox, I used an #RSS reader extension called Bamboo. When I switched to #Vivaldi the built in RSS reader didn't exist, and I couldn't find an RSS extension I liked, so I wrote my own, with the same UI I was used to from Bamboo.

Now I have updated it to Mv3, so it will keep working after Mv2 is phased out. Download available from my web site, liked in my profile (not posting direct links until Mastodon fixes the thumbnail DDOS problem).

Written for an tested in Vivaldi, but should work with any #Chromium browser including #Chrome and #Edge I guess, as long as you can install addons from outside the walled garden.

Replied to Estelle Platini

Here is a comparison on browser shares in 3 environments: the Fediverse panel, a website and commercial #stats.
(The two 1st samples are heavily skewed to English-speaking higher eds.)

The share of devices that have iOS or macOS in my poll went from 2% (at a hundred answers), to 14% (at a thousand answers), to 22% (at 2000 answers). Compare that with 15% of the pages served by the website and 18% for Safari+WebKit at Statcounter.
This may hint that Safari+WebKit is evenly distributed except low at techies'.

Beware that the %s of my poll are shares of the answerers, not shares of installations.

The Gecko family (Firefox, Waterfox, Librewolf…) displays a 100% total in my poll (against 19% usage of the website and 2.5% usage at Statcounter.) Of course many devices have Firefox and Librewolf; and many have none.

The Chromium family (Chrome, Ungoogled, Vivaldi, Edge…) displays a 70% total in my poll (against 53% usage of the website and 71% usage at Statcounter.)

Replied to Estelle Platini

Here are comments on the evolution of browser share in a year.
(The three samples are heavily skewed to English-speaking higher eds.)
Last year results: techhub.social/@estelle/112047
You may still answer in the previous toot.

3/4 Fediverse members use #Firefox proper. Same as last year.
We welcome other parts of the Firefox family (any browser with Gecko inside):
• The share of Librewolf mentions doubled since last year.
• The share of other Gecko-based forks mentions also doubled since last year. (Even though some Waterfox usage is not logged because i did not list it.)

The shares of Chrome and Vivaldi were stable for the first thousand answerers (maybe more IT inclined) but doubled with the later thousand (in the last 24 hours).

The share of the last line (Opera-Blink-Brave mentions) decreased since last year.

#browsers#webDev#poll

Stavo facendo un giro su european-alternatives.eu e ho notato due cose:

1) SKRED: l'unica app di messaggistica P2P europea. Vista la scarsa esperienza utente di Jami, mi chiedevo se qualcuno avesse provato SKRED.. funziona bene?

2) Tolto Mullvad Browser, fork di Firefox, l'unico browser di una società europea sembra essere Vivaldi. Nessun altro browser 😯

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I tried Vivaldi on mobile, and within a few minutes I deleted Firefox and won't look back anymore.

But it's not about whatever recent issues others have with Firefox; frankly none of it are directly impeding my usage, so I just shrug it off.

It all came down to Vivaldi using up less memory than Firefox. It's what made me look for a new browser anyway.

And just with that I'm already satisfied with the new browser. All other features are just a nice bonus.

First #vivaldi hiccup this morning. Had a virtual doctor appointment and couldn't get audio working. Worked fine with Google Meet yesterday, so I'll have to do some digging. I think they use some remote software called See?

One of the features I'm loving about #vivaldi is the integration of #RSS feeds. Moving all of my stuff over from Comma Feed (which was a nice solution until now). Amazing! Remember when browsers all had RSS feeds built in?