My eyes haven't gotten so bad that this is a requirement yet, but it's a nice feature that I like to see. I especially like that you can bind the UI zoom to different keyboard shortcuts than the page content, so you can zoom them independently of each other. I can see where this may be a very handy feature for me in the future.
@gamey I don't love that it's got closed source components. I'd much prefer the whole thing was open. Despite that, I still think it's the best browser for my own personal needs.
@mike @gamey My experience of #Firefox on #KDE is similar. KDE gives me great control over #fonts, and Firefox honours those font choices in its UI (which is good, because I keep needing to increase them). Then Firefox has separate Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- hotkeys to zoom the page content in and out without affecting the UI.
@mike I obviously can't say anything against using whatever works best for you be that FOSS or not but I am curiouse about the advantages you see with Vivaldi. I use Firefox and I do realize that the Gecko engine ia facing issues that make it a worse choice in direct comparison but how is Vivaldi better than Brave, Ungoogled Chromium and Webkit browsers?
@gamey Vivaldi is the KDE of web browsers. It's configurable in almost every way imaginable, so I can truly make it my own. If there's another browser in existence that is more configurable, I don't know about it. It also has features like synchronized Reading Lists, a unique history feature, web panels, private integrated translation, etc. There's just so many features. Heck, it can sync smart bulbs to the color theme of the webpage you're visiting. I don't use that, but I could.
@mike Ahh zooming in browsers are pretty standard and has been for many years. CTRL++ to increase and CTRL+- to decrease. CTRL+0 to reset to default.
@adamsdesk That's the actual content. Vivaldi allows assigning similar hotkeys to changing the zoom level of the actual UI of the browser as well without impacting the web content.
@mike Oh, gotcha. Well that is cool indeed.
@mike I never understood the love some FOSS advocates have for closed source browsers that rely on a web engine you can get in many FOSS alternatives.