 So if you have followed my channel for any amount of time, you know that I have been in a browser search for a very long time I've never been completely happy with any browser ever like seriously, I'm super picky when it comes to browsers and Usually what that means is that I just default the Firefox because Firefox is open source It's very customizable with user Chrome and it just works Well enough that I can't complain too badly. Well, I mean, that's not true I complain about it all the damn time But it's about as good as you can get in terms of an open source browser that does what a browser is supposed to do So I usually just stick with Firefox as my main browser But that doesn't really mean all that much because I switch browsers all the time in hopes that I'm gonna finally find one That is just, you know The browser it's the browser that is going to keep me there for the rest of all eternity And it's gonna be awesome and has all the features that I want and it runs fast And you know, it's just does everything in the perfect way Obviously such a browser does not exist and even though I'm gonna be talking about another browser today that I've criticized often in the past It still doesn't exist. Right, right. There is no perfect browser And unless I'm going to become a development God I don't think I'm gonna go out and actually code my own so I'm going to have to rely on work of others But all that being said the Voli has released a brand new release of their browser now in the past I have been very critical of the Voli. I think I even made one saying that they're hypocrites at one point I'm not very kind to the developers of the Voli. I haven't ever been and Most of the reason why that's the case is because they do this whole proprietary nonsense thing where they claim They're 95% open source and then the rest of it's just a little bit of proprietary on top You won't even notice right that has always bugged me and it will always continue to bug me because I Don't like proprietary software for the most part despite having to continue to use it But I will say that this new release of the Voli is really good and I'm gonna use it So despite it being proprietary garbage, I'm gonna be using the Voli at least for now No, as I said at the beginning I switch browsers all the damn time So it's a good chance that something about for Voli will piss me off But for now the Voli has become my browser and I want to talk about why so let's talk about this new update And why it has made me switch so this is the Voli it looks basically like the Voli always has now There are some customization things that they've added in version 6 that are really good things like being able to customize the icons And different places and stuff like that. It's that stuff is nice It's not as fully featured customizable as Firefox is in terms of UI elements Not necessarily because you know of the placement of the stuff But more because with user Chrome and being that being CSS you can actually do a whole bunch more Stuff with CSS editing than you can with the built-in Customizations that the Voli offers, but that stuff's really besides the point Yes, I really like customizing the look and feel of stuff But that stuff was so minor It doesn't really move the needle any on how I feel about the Voli But the one thing that has seriously made me love this browser and the little bit of time that I've been using it is Workspaces now if you watched my channel before you guys know I love workspaces And what's the other thing that I love tabs? I love tabs and if you if you combine those two things It's like nirvana for me so they've added this thing called workspaces now basically what workspaces allow you to do is Separate your groups of tabs into workspaces So I have one for say for my video ideas and I have all those video ideas here And then it just kind of switches to those so you could have a different theme for the workspace if you wanted to so You know like a white thing if you wanted to do that you could do that you could have it like I have it here So I actually have some tab stacks inside of a workspace so that means even more organization So I have tab stacks of all the distro ideas that I have all of the window manager ideas that I have and terminal apps and app regular Applications and stuff like that all that inside of stacks inside of a workspace. So it's kind of like nested folders It's really cool that I can organize my stuff that way And it just makes me want to open up more tabs And I'm a tab hoarder already at one point. I had over a hundred tabs this last week now I know there are many people who have more this is not a competition But I had a ton of tabs and this whole idea behind being able to organize my stuff into workspaces and tab stacks Which are basically tab groups is just amazing now. I had this basic functionality inside of Firefox So don't get me wrong that I have been missing this functionality So with simple tab groups in Firefox, I could basically do the same thing I had a little drop down in the top bar I can move to different groups and stuff like that and that was basically a workspace functionality but this is built in and I Abhor extensions despite the fact that I have to use a whole bunch of them I don't like to like these are all the extensions down here in the lower right hand corner that I use and I want to get Rid of as many of them as possible Unfortunately, I use all of these right like I want I want to have you know certain functionality and that requires me to use Extensions, but with workspaces built in I can at least remove one more extension from my extensions pack And that makes me happy and on top of that that it's just a it's just an amazing combination of things that I Wholeheartedly enjoy so the ability to stack tabs, which is basically groups, which is how I have these here So I have the group names up here at the top and then the stack or the group is down here in tabs like this now The volley offers you different ways of displaying tab groups, which is cool I really do like that but add that on top of that that you can put them into their own workspaces Which is like a group of groups It's just so good and it allows you to basically organize your tabs in any number of ways you can be as organized as you want and it's just so good now All this being said it doesn't mean that the volley is perfect obviously there's still things here that absolutely drive me nuts So the first one is that I'm going to win a manager. I don't need these buttons up here I want those to go away. I don't know if you can make those go away. There's a chance you can I just haven't found it yet, but I want those to go away That's the first thing that I always see also one of the coolest features in Firefox is that you can hide the bookmarks bar with a key binding and then bring it back with a key binding I'm not sure if you can do that with the volley is something that I'm gonna have to look into So there are still things here that bug me, but Overall, I've been using it now for I don't know 12 hours or so and there's not a lot of it's a long time But it's still it's just really Really good so far and that workspace functionality is just top of the line like seriously Seriously good. It's gonna make if I do move away from the volley again That's gonna be one of those features that I miss right another cool thing that you can do with the whole workspace Thing is that you can actually change the icon for each of these if you wanted to use an emoji or something Like that you could do so or a different icon. I do wish they'd allow you to change the color So if you wanted to change, you know, you could use a different icon that has a color So that it would kind of stand up, but it would really be cool if you could change a color Now another feature that I'd really like them to have so if I wanted to say move this tab here to a Workspace you can do that So if you hit move and you could move it to one of the workspaces that you've created What I'd like them to be able to do is add on to this functionality So that if I have a tab stack inside of one of these workspaces, I could move it to that tab stack That would be awesome. It may be too complicated But that's that'd be really cool because right now if I wanted to move this I'd have to move it to say to do and then I had to go to to do I'd find it You know up here and if I wanted to move that to the tab stack I'd have to drag all the way over to the tab stack You know, it's a few extra steps and it's not great, right? I might rather be able to move that from a menu. So the new version of the volley is really good I didn't go through all the features, but the two main ones are replacing the icons Along the bar here along the side. So if you have the bar open, you can replace these icons You can replace the icons for forward and back that are down here if you wanted to that's cool enough I'm probably not even going to bother with that because these are just fine I just want to replace the theme which you can do in the settings So that's the one big feature the other big feature and the one that I've been going on and on about is the Workspaces and that is still just the coolest thing. So yeah, I have switched browsers again Now, I know that I switched browsers a lot like I said, I switched browsers all the time So not breaking news here folks, but that workspace functionality, which I think that they stole from opera I'm not sure if that's true. I haven't used opera in like 20 years and I doubt I'll ever use opera again I don't know anybody who does use opera, but I'm sure there are some people I'm sure there's actually someone who's going to comment in the comment section below and say hey opera is really good I'm sure it is. I'm not gonna use opera. It's I didn't even how is it even still a thing or really? But anyways, I'm pretty sure they took that feat functionality from opera I may be wrong about that, but that functionality alone has got me to switch from Firefox to Vivaldi Now I still wish it was open source like 100% open source. Not this pansy has half-ass shit that That Vivaldi has going on right now. I totally just completely, you know, swore many times You know YouTube video which I tried not to do but the point is that, you know, I wish it was open source If it was seriously if Vivaldi was open source I probably would have been using it ages ago, right because the customized ability of it has always been really really good Even without the CSS stuff that Firefox offers They like to give you options to move stuff around and I love that that's something that even Firefox doesn't give you right Yes, you can move stuff around in Firefox if you know CSS But if you don't know CSS, you don't have the option to do the stuff Whereas Vivaldi doesn't give you a CSS, but they do give you options to move stuff, which is really good But it's not open source and it's the one thing that has always kind of kept me from liking The other thing has been it is kind of bloated. I will say that now It's not as bloated as edge has become so if you've if you've used Microsoft Edge lately They keep cramming not only features in it, but really weird like advertisements and Crypto stuff and beings all over the place. It's it's typical Microsoft stuff So Vivaldi is not that bad, but I don't need an email client I don't need a RSS feed reader in my browser now The good news is is that those things are things that you have to enable in order for them to be there So that's good news. It's opt-in. So that's good, but I don't really want those things in my browser anyways So maybe it's a little bit of bloat, but again, if it was proprietary Maybe the perfect browser or closer than it is now So anyways a little bit of a ramble about Vivaldi 6.0 so far. It has been really really good I'm gonna continue to use it for quite a while and we'll see how it goes So who wants to take bets on when I go back to Firefox? We'll see hopefully hopefully not because I do really really like Vivaldi right now So that's it for this video if you have thoughts on Vivaldi or anything like that you can leave those in the comment section below I know that the super passionate open-source freedom-loving people amongst my audience of which there are many are going to be like Matt Why are you using proprietary garbage? I know I'm sorry. I Apologize and if this ruins your opinion of me. I I can only deeply apologize to you for for my Offenses against you, but you know sometimes you just kind of have to do it if something is good unfortunately, right? Just the way it is. 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