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It seems the worst thing you can say about Vivaldi is that it’s closed source. I actually really like Vivaldi when I want a bloated browser experience (sometim

It seems the worst thing you can say about Vivaldi is that it’s closed source. I actually really like Vivaldi when I want a bloated browser experience (sometimes I do). I’ve been jumping between Vivaldi and Qutebrowser on my Linux box. Qute us amazing except when it isn’t, which is about 10% of the time. Im not sure how much I care about browsers being proprietary as long as the engine is open source (I really like safari). If there’s evidence that Vivaldi is doing terrible things with my usage data then I’ll likely change back to FF.

brnt 5y ago
Last I read [1] Vivaldi was one of the chattier browsers out there [2], generating a unique ID for you, and building from source also was not actually possible. Wonder if this has changed, and how Manjaro handles the building. Much of Vivaldi's components are closed source (the mail client for instance). [1] https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi.html [2] https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/ https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/
- kunagi7 5y ago
  Manjaro used to do nothing around Vivaldi's package. It's just the inherited community/vivaldi package from the Arch Linux's repositories. I have a Manjaro and an Arch Linux machine with me so I can just type "pacman -Qi vivaldi" on both of them and reveal the package's information: Name : vivaldi Version : 4.1.2369.21-1 Description : An advanced browser made with the power user in mind. Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://vivaldi.com https://vivaldi.com [...] Installed Size : 278,59 MiB Packager : Ike Devolder <ike.devolder@gmail.com> [...] The same result comes out on both machines.