I am trying to switch from Brave browser to Vivaldi. Those online review articles that compare both browsers are too surface. There are several things I need to highlight, however these issues may be caused by extensions I am installing.

Vivaldi issues:

1. Bookmarklet causes address bar changed.

2. When we zoom a page, then we revisit the page on other tab, doesn’t retain the zoom level, yet Brave retains it.

Brave issue(s):

In my previous post, I mentioned about running Firefox in Android, that allows adblock.

However, Firefox in iPhone (iOS) doesn’t allow install adblock extension. So, I tried an alternative solution, and found Brave browser. Brave has built-in adblock. It helps browsing experience more focus.

However, if using Brave, there is a weird behaviour when the default setting of the cookie is “Only block cross-site cookies”. This causes HTTP request header for the Referer changed. And this will break some websites if the website is doing HTTP Referrer check. To solve this issue, the only solution is to change the cookie setting to “Allow all cookies”.

With the recent update of Pale Moon, I found a trouble with Pale Moon. That is the problem of FoxyProxy Standard addon on Pale Moon. Actually it is a known issue of the incompatibility. Thus, I think soon I will stop using Pale Moon.

Similarly, GNU IceCat (in Arch Linux) has a little difference from Firefox. It can be obviously noticed when using Google Search, there is no instant search. This is because of the user agent showing that the browser is IceCat instead of Firefox. By changing the default user agent to Firefox, then IceCat can use the Google Instant Search. However, with the recent update (in Arch Linux AUR), IceCat user agent is now Firefox.

Recently, I visited the China website for listening some songs using Firefox 7.0, and found that I need a plugin called Moonlight, since I am using Linux.

So, this Moonlight is the Silverlight alternative for Linux. If you visit the website such as 1ting.com, then this is what you need.

However, Moonlight xpi file is not compatible to Firefox 7.0. Thus, some modifications towards the xpi file is needed. If using Arch Linux, it is available in AUR (submitted by me).