Chrome is more proprietary than Vivaldi, and both based on the same open-source Chromium. The main difference is that you can read the Vivaldi source code (eve

Chrome is more proprietary than Vivaldi, and both based on the same open-source Chromium. The main difference is that you can read the Vivaldi source code (even though it's not open source) whereas you really have no way of knowing what Google puts into its proprietary Chrome browser. So, the techie audience that prefers open source should logically prefer Vivaldi to Chrome.