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Vivaldi browser seemed a good idea to escape Google's misfeatures without swapping it for Microsoft extensions (Edge) or Firefox / Gecko idiosyncrasies (size / magnification issues on Ubuntu, slow Android version, clunky UI). But there are some ongoing issues that I never experienced in any other user agent (maybe I will when switching to Chromium), like URL completion (port URLs without a protocol aren't prepended with https but trigger a xdg-open dialog, autocomplete prefers obscure deep links with long paths instead of the base URL, browsers seems to forget login passwords by default, etc.) - so Chromium seems like the obvious choice. But there seem to be no more Chromium builds for Android? Anyone else disappointed by Vivaldi has a preferred solution?

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    Thanks for mentioning, but no, not yet. I thought it was just like Firefox with a privacy addon, but if it offers a more compact and visually elegant UI as well that would be fine! Now I see that it's not even Gecko, but Chromium. I thought we already had enough Chromium variations now, but we'll see.
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    I've been pretty happy with Vivaldi. Random quirks with some sites (one month a patch fixes it, next month, broke again, etc).

    I love the tab grouping options when I'm researching random topics (ex. group by domain, tab stacking, etc).

    Waaaay to complicated for 'normal' people. Ex. My wife. She's the user who opens 50 tabs to random+sketchy coupon sites and yells across the room "Get over here! My computer is sooo slow. You said you fixed it last time. I thought you knew a lot about computers."
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    Tab groups and other surprising functions that can easily be invoked by accident I don't like either. I must admit it: only power tools that I need are dev tools inspector and plugins. Anything else, I am absolutely just a normal unsavy user.
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