My main browser is Librewolf but I keep a chromium browser just in case. Previously used brave but their flatpak is shit. Ungoogled chromium seems ok but it looks like they don’t change much from upstream chromium. Any good chromium browsers which harden their browsers like librewolf does for more privacy?
Vivaldi? Yeah it has more proprietary blobs, than Brave or Firefox, but it is mostly free. Do I recommend it? Nope. But it is good. I myself don’t like it lot, too much bloat.
Edit. I can recommend only Brave and LibreWolf on desktop. On mobile Mull and Brave. I don’t really trust about one-man projects, even Kiwi Browser. But they are good.
no, do not mistake yourself. they are not proprietary blobs. the whole browser is proprietary. they release a tarball with the chromium code + some changes. but the whole UI which are the main changes are proprietary (after all, like any Chromium browser, it’s mostly a re-skinned Chromium, they don’t make any changes to the engine).
It’s a proprietary browser. They just release a bunch of code for marketing purposes. Don’t believe me? Try compiling it, and tell me if what you get is Vivaldi minus some blobs.
Wtf are you talking about? It is Foss browser, but their UI code has no license to copy and modify, but code is audited and trusted. Vivaldi could be trusted same as Mozilla and Brave. It even more privacy respecting than Firefox!
At the end it really does not matter… It is all about personal preferences. People just use something and whatever works for them is OK.
“Note that, of the three layers above, only the UI layer is closed-source. Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.”
Straight from the horses mouth. So 92% of it is the same as every other chromium browser. 3% is their oss code and 5% is closed source. That 5% more than actual open source browsers.
Which means the final product is closed source.
Okey, whatever, let it be closed source lol. BTW Vivaldi was set as default in Manjaro Linux, with UI changed, that is a work between both Vivaldi and Manjaro. I really doubt they would use proprietary software lol. That 8% (100-92) is bloatware they did not used at all? Once again their 5%? UI is just not under FOSS license, they do not allow modifying it without permussion. But if you like to think other way… Yeah OK, why not.
Excuse me? I switched to Manjaro with Xfce about 3 months ago, and if I wasn’t high at the time and remember everything correctly, the default web browser was simply absent. Which is an excellent choice, in my opinion.
I did not used Manjaro or Vivaldi, but: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-is-the-default-browser-on-manjaro-linux/
So, it’s default for Cinnamon distribution. That’s like saying Amazon AppStore is default for Android just because some manufacturers install it by default. Consider reading the article before quoting it, please.
That is not the same. I say different thing. Read above. About Vivaldi closed source. The sources are here https://vivaldi.com/source/ anyway. Lets try to say it is open source, but not FOSS. So people are wrong saying it is proprietary. It is not.
Wow, you’re an idiot.
edit : and that’s coming from spez so…
How smart 🤣