Mike Dragon

Well, since everyone is sharing what's their browser of choice, I'll join the conversation.

I love Chrome. It's my main browser for everything. I hear people complain about its RAM usage but honestly, I never had issues with that. Even with lots of tabs open, it never seemed to take up more memory than it was supposed to. FireFox, on the other hand, ALWAYS gave me a hard time with memory. I had it for a while and it would always eat up most of my RAM. Even on a clean install with a single tab and no extensions. Always. And it still does! On any computer I find it. I flip the bird to FF.

Recently I have been experimenting with Vivaldi and even went on a two weeks period with using nothing but Vivaldi for all my internet needs just so I could evaluate how good it is and I've been happy with -most- the results. I wouldn't migrate from Chrome to it but if I had to, I would have no objection at all! It supports the same extensions as Chrome, is very compatible, it looks nice, it is fast, light, has good customization options never crashed on me on the times I used it.

Only reason I mentioned on the initial post that it is "almost perfect" is due to a few little details that drew my attention. Things Chrome can do or can do better. Things such as:

- Unlike on Chrome, Vivaldi doesn't let you attach or detach a tab from the main window or attach one from another window.

- Vivaldi doesn't let you quickly search for a word or phrase on Google just by selecting it and dragging it up to an existing or new tab.

- The mouse cursor won't auto-hide on full screen YouTube videos so you have to hide it on the edge of the screen yourself.

- There is no auto-sync for favorites, extensions and settings across computers. Though that's a minor thing for you can easily copy your stuff from Vivaldi on PC A to PC B by simply copying over Vivaldi's user profile folder inside its system directory. Only thing you'll need to do after that is download your extensions.

- It doesn't seem to "learn" very well what are your most typed URLs. For instance, whenever I type in "fo" on the URL bar, Chrome will auto-fill forum.truckersmp.com (which is the address I want to access). Vivaldi, however, will auto-fill Forbes' website. o~o Sometimes if I just type "f" it will fill in TruckersMP address, though. But just sometimes. Same deal with other sites.

These are minor details, however. Nothing that really affect the overall experience. And I'm pretty sure these can (and most likely will) be addressed with time. Vivaldi is pretty new, after all. Despite all this I am happy with this browser. I like it and as I said before, at least for me, it is a really good replacement for Chrome if I ever decide to migrate. Though Chrome is my main browser and I don't plan on switching, I'm keeping Vivaldi as well. Better than IE and FireFox, that's for sure.

Did I accidentally just made a mini review of Vivaldi? O.o

Yupp! 

10/10 -IGN "Would do it again"

2/10 - PC Gamers "I give it 2/10 because I didn't get payed enough..."