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Re:Chrome Won by asfdsfggtfd on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:22AM (#14423797)
Closed source is a boolean. Chrome is distributed only as a binary. I.e. it is totally closed source.

It currently has a very large relation to the open source Chromium project. But Google could change that tomorrow if they wanted to - they could also gradually move more and more to their closed source Chrome builds (as they have done with Android).

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Re:Chrome Won by jhasse on Monday May 29, 2017 @10:10AM (#14439144)
> Closed source is a boolean.

I disagree. There's a difference between having 99% of the source available and 0%.

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Re:Chrome Won by PatentTroll on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:55AM (#14424035)
Are there any viable chromium based open source browsers out there that have consistent updates?
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Re:Chrome Won by solidr53 on Friday May 26, 2017 @10:29AM (#14424275)
Yes, Brave [0] and Irdium [1].

[0] https://www.brave.com/ [1] https://iridiumbrowser.de/

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Re:Chrome Won by rmurri on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:24AM (#14424700)
https://vivaldi.com
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Re:Chrome Won by zastrowm on Friday May 26, 2017 @12:18PM (#14425127)
My understanding was that vivaldi wasn't completely open source either.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/54kzpc/psa_...

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Re:Chrome Won by scholia on Friday May 26, 2017 @02:04PM (#14426003)
Vivaldi isn't open source but you can read the source code, which is better than nothing....

There is some debate inside Vivaldi about making it open source and it would be easy enough to do. I'd guess that it probably doesn't make economic sense while it has such a small market share, but I don't know if that's true.

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