Interesting, that source code is growing FAST though, I wonder why that is...

https://vivaldi.com/source/

edit: "integrated email client" Ok now I see why ;)

Vivaldi, just like Opera back in a day has things integrated, yeah... They even have Philips Hue controls https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/miscellaneous/philips-hue/

I thought Vivaldi was closed source for some reason, so thank you for this! I may be using that more often now!

The UI is closed source.

Right, I didn't know that

> 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

That changes the equation quite a bit.

It's still readable and editable, AFAIK. At least the CSS files.

It's obfuscated.[1]

[1] https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser...

Vivaldi is the definition of bloat. What was that saying, that all software grows until it bundles an entire mail client? Yeah, that's Vivaldi.

It's just doing the same stuff Opera did (with a much less pleasing engine).

I've used Vivaldi for years but now I'm getting split on it. I've got regressions that are just unacceptable (especially when it comes to video playback), but at the same time it comes with features I can't live without.

Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment : “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

Google/Chrome has gmail. Vivaldi has a mail client. That's why Firefox is dying!

I mean, there are different setups of Vivaldi you can choose when you first open the browser: https://vivaldi.com/features/#essentials

Essentials gives you the very basic stuff, classic gives you some extra features, and fully loaded gives you the built in mail client and all that other stuff.

because reasons?