Anything in particular you don’t like about Firefox?

Try linode, i used to use them in a past and it was faultless.

Care to elaborate?

Keep an eye on black friday deals, they are usually the best around. You may get lifetime deals on the cheap from indexers, cheap blocks/subs from server providers. It’s a steep, but rewarding learning curve. Can’t help you with Italian content though.

Loads of good choices here, i would like to add calibre and darktable.