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Vivaldi is closed source though.

by hobarrera 9y ago

toyg 9y ago
Chrome is too, they only open the chromium core.
- v3ss0n 9y ago
  No , Chromium is almost 100% chrome , just without Google Service specific features .
  - PatentTroll 9y ago
    How can I run chromium as a daily driver on windows? What about automatic updates?
    - temgo 9y ago
      Choco packages chromium nightly builds for Windows.You could automate 'choco upgrade chromium -Y' (Daily snapshot builds). Otherwise: http://chromium.woolyss.com/#windows http://chromium.woolyss.com/#windows Which packages http://www.henrypp.org/product/chrlauncher http://www.henrypp.org/product/chrlauncher in the portable edition
  - toyg 9y ago
    Features like the updater / appmanager, which is borderline malware and one of the reasons I uninstalled Chrome (and boy did it take some effort). Regardless, Chrome is not fully opensource, so there is no way to "calculate" the % you mention. Google might be running a bitcoin miner in Chrome and you would have no way of knowing. The degree of trust required to run Chrome is equivalent to the one you need to run Vivaldi; the only difference is who you trust (Google vs a bunch of ex-Opera developers). If you don't trust anything that is not opensource, you shouldn't run Google Chrome - you should run Chromium or Firefox builds published by trusted parties.
andrepd 9y ago
Try Brave then? FOSS, based on Chromium, created by Brendan Eich.
sliken 9y ago
Wow, that is pretty gross, makes me wish chromium was GPL.
- gjjrfcbugxbhf 9y ago
  But that would prevent Google releasing the closed source Chrome.. And if khtml had been GPL apple couldn't have released the closed source Safari browser based on it - which would have meant that webkit might never have become mainstream - and chromium probably would have never even existed.
sulami 9y ago
https://vivaldi.com/source/ https://vivaldi.com/source/
- Sylos 9y ago
  This isn't the entire source code. It's just the changes that they've made directly to Chromium. They can still bundle all kinds of closed-source stuff alongside that, just like Google does with Chrome.

Vivaldi is closed source though.

toyg 9y ago

Chrome is too, they only open the chromium core.

v3ss0n 9y ago
No , Chromium is almost 100% chrome , just without Google Service specific features .
- PatentTroll 9y ago
  How can I run chromium as a daily driver on windows? What about automatic updates?
  - temgo 9y ago
    Choco packages chromium nightly builds for Windows.You could automate 'choco upgrade chromium -Y' (Daily snapshot builds). Otherwise: http://chromium.woolyss.com/#windows http://chromium.woolyss.com/#windows Which packages http://www.henrypp.org/product/chrlauncher http://www.henrypp.org/product/chrlauncher in the portable edition
- toyg 9y ago
  Features like the updater / appmanager, which is borderline malware and one of the reasons I uninstalled Chrome (and boy did it take some effort). Regardless, Chrome is not fully opensource, so there is no way to "calculate" the % you mention. Google might be running a bitcoin miner in Chrome and you would have no way of knowing. The degree of trust required to run Chrome is equivalent to the one you need to run Vivaldi; the only difference is who you trust (Google vs a bunch of ex-Opera developers). If you don't trust anything that is not opensource, you shouldn't run Google Chrome - you should run Chromium or Firefox builds published by trusted parties.

andrepd 9y ago

Try Brave then? FOSS, based on Chromium, created by Brendan Eich.

sliken 9y ago

Wow, that is pretty gross, makes me wish chromium was GPL.

gjjrfcbugxbhf 9y ago
But that would prevent Google releasing the closed source Chrome.. And if khtml had been GPL apple couldn't have released the closed source Safari browser based on it - which would have meant that webkit might never have become mainstream - and chromium probably would have never even existed.

sulami 9y ago

https://vivaldi.com/source/ https://vivaldi.com/source/

Sylos 9y ago
This isn't the entire source code. It's just the changes that they've made directly to Chromium. They can still bundle all kinds of closed-source stuff alongside that, just like Google does with Chrome.