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Sorry, Vivaldi is not meaningfully open-source[0], so this makes it very difficult for me to care about any purported benefits it has to offer. Which is a shame
by branon 6y ago
Sorry, Vivaldi is not meaningfully open-source[0], so this makes it very difficult for me to care about any purported benefits it has to offer. Which is a shame because is seems like it has some nice features, but without checking this very important prerequisite box, I unfortunately will not even consider it.
[0] https://vivaldi.com/source/ https://vivaldi.com/source/ exists but only releasing tarballs is pretty lame, there's no source repository where I can browse/fork, no public bug tracker where I can contribute to issue reports. A conventional, permissive, free-software license is not in use, as far as I can tell.
Vivaldi wouldn't behave like any of the other software that runs on my computer. That's not good.
I understand and appreciate that Vivaldi is different from Chrom(e|ium). That just doesn't make a difference to me.