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Weird flex suggesting Vivaldi, given that it's proprietary and there are other open source Chromium forks.
by mixedCase 8y ago
Weird flex suggesting Vivaldi, given that it's proprietary and there are other open source Chromium forks.
- jccalhoun 8y agoThey do mention Opera and Brave in a footnote.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoHe specifically states it's not ideal. And the question of other Chromium forks to me, is how well are they maintained and are they actively investigated for security vulnerabilities? Ideally, of course, you should not use Chromium-based browsers at all. Unfortunately this also now rules out Edge, but thankfully, Firefox is now a great browser again.
- iosonofuturista 8y agoCould you recommend some? From a quick search all I could find were things like Opera, Torch, Epic etc, which do not seem to be open source. I must I am quite happy with Vivaldi at the moment, but a true open source browser would make me even happier. I did try to use Firefox Developer Edition for a while, but despite being a step in the right direction, I must say I prefer the chromium developer tools.
- mixedCase 8y agoI'm using the Brave developer channel on one of my machines. It's working well. Like Chromium, but without the creepier Google parts that had still managed to get their way in. I also like their theme a little better. Dark, and a little more compact.
- gnicholas 8y agoI’ve been doing the same. I noticed that their public release is now also chromium based, so I was going to switch over to that. Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to port browsing history, etc from Brave dev, only from prior versions of Brave, or other browsers.
- josefresco 8y agoIt's most likely because the people behind Vivaldi are the same people who created Opera.