Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by marginalia_nu on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @02:41PM
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Vivaldi is just a chromium wrapper as far as I understand.
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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by dismalaf on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:33PM
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It's Chromium with the Google bits ripped out, Vivaldi has their own sign in/sync functionality, built in ad blocker, and custom UI. It's based on Chromium but has quite a bit different going on, as much as Brave or Edge.
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by tredre3 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:37PM
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But unlike Brave and Edge, Vivaldi isn't open-source.
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by dismalaf on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:43PM
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https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser...
They basically just want to keep the copyright to their UI. You can see the source but they don't want anyone to rip off their UI.
And let's be real, every browser (even Firefox) has closed source server side code.
Also, the comment I initially responded to was about why isn't there a European browser not controlled by "big tech"... Vivaldi is an independent company in Europe making a browser.