tl;dr they're not using AI for obvious reasons

We will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.

Vivaldi is the haven for people who still want to explore. We will continue building a browser for curious minds, power users, researchers, and anyone who values autonomy. If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.

Now I only need full ublock origin support on android and it's golden.

You already can have that Ironfox (Firefox Librewolf-style android fork) is the easiest option (uBlock origin integrated), but you can also use the normal firefox browser with full extension support.

A position on AI says next to nothing about one's stance on humanity, right?

wish they would change to gecko though

You can add the block lists manually via Vivaldi's built in blocker feature

uAssets/filters at master · uBlockOrigin/uAssets

Filter lists for uBlock Origin & uBlock Origin Lite - uAssets/filters at master · uBlockOrigin/uAssets

GitHub (github.com)

If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.

So they didn’t really make a stand.

They are selling a product that's just chrome with a fancy skin. The only stance they have is praising google and lying to it's users claiming to be better

Firefox (and thus also the forks) is missing a couple features since the rewrite 5 years ago. The biggest one for me is lack of keyboard shortcuts.

Also it becomes painfully slow on some more complex websites and dark reader is not nearly as good as the dark mode in Vivaldi.

Because of that I only use FF on websites that don't work on Vivaldi.

Sadly that doesn't work as good as ublock, especially for adblock blocker blocking.

There are some websites that just don't work with that setup.

“Selling”?

Even Mozilla doesn’t really want Gecko anymore, that’s why they started Servo.

Can anybody tell me why no one uses webkit?

There are some very minor browser that use webkit.

Not open source, but apparently not fully closed source either: https://vivaldi.com/source/.

lack of keyboard shortcuts

What keyboard shortcuts are missing from FF?

I don't keep up with any of this stuff, and so it just makes me think of memes like this:

On Android? All of them. There are no keyboard shortcuts at all on FF for Android.

How are you using a keyboard in a browser on Android? I didn't use keyboard since BlackBerry KEY.

I know. Gnome Web among others. But why isn’t there any more mainstream example? Why does everyone use blink?