I’m not having, as I said before, any issues with Gecko

Good for you!

I say that as a web developer myself. Gecko has become problematic to work with. It’s not the web devs fault that Gecko is now full of odd quirks.

I used to dev for Firefox, then test on Chrome. The amount of times I was looking for a non-existent bug in my code just to realise it works fine on Chrome and it’s actually a Gecko bug not respecting a specification was a major factor in my choice to drop Firefox as my daily drive.

And the irony is that one of the best documentations for web specifications is made by Mozilla.

If your only criterium is the presence of AI, then of course it doesn’t matter.

But Firefox has been degrading far before AI was even hyped. Mozilla basically gave up on its development as they lost their market share. Full of bugs, poor implementation of new standards, terrible optimization… That’s why I switched to a Chromium based browser. Not because of AI.

Unforunately, there is no solid alternative at the moment. Firefox used to be great, but the quality of the browser has been consistently declining for years now. In terms of features, stability, and accuracy. The various forks I tested back when I couldn’t deal with Firefox’s issues any longer had the exact same issues.

At least Vivaldi is european.

Vivaldi is Chromium based

Yes. And? It is open source, and Vivaldi modifies it heavily.

You’re criticizing browsers based on “Shitty Browser A” while promoting browsers based on “Shitty Browser B”. Both categories are heavily modified and just as viable.

People need to stop being scared of Chromium-based browsers.

Exactly this. Micron ended their consumer RAM. Sansung here is just stopping producing something that is arguably outdated, and has a perfectly fine, already more available, most often cheaper or equivalent modern replacement.