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I don't know what browser you're using, but assuming chrome : it's not open source either. Chromium is open source, but Google Chrome is proprietary, much in th
by roblabla 9y ago
I don't know what browser you're using, but assuming chrome : it's not open source either. Chromium is open source, but Google Chrome is proprietary, much in the same way vivaldi is.
If you want a truly open source modern browser, the only options are chromium or firefox these days, AFAIK ? (If you know an alternative I'm interested !)
- jhasse 9y agoOn Linux there are quite a few other options e.g. Eolie. https://github.com/gnumdk/eolie https://github.com/gnumdk/eolie On Android I can recommend Lightning: https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoI don't think it's fair to assume that someone who is calling for a browser to be open sourced is using Chrome rather than Chromium.
- TwoBit 9y agoWhy assume Chrome? Most likely he uses Firefox.
- lmm 9y agoKonqueror is still around (it's where the chrome rendering engine originally came from), and IMO still the best.
- 482794793792894 9y agoAnd Chromium as an open-source project is known to contain trackers. Well, known by some people at least. Here's a fork trying to fix that: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium As for other modern open-source browsers, http://otter-browser.org/ http://otter-browser.org/ is still in relatively early development AFAIK, but sort of like Vivaldi, it's trying to recreate Opera 12.