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Chromium but with extra steps. Why did vivaldi choose chromium.
Because Blink is the best engine. Chromium, same as any other engine, is FOSS, therefore everyone, if want, can gutt out the Google crap it has by default, what the Vivaldi devs do very well in every update, leaving some Google APIs as options in the settings. If you desactivate eg the one of the Chrome Store, Vivaldi can't download extensions from there, because it isn't seen not longer as a Chromium. Vivaldi isn't a simple chromium fork, pasting just the own logo, there is a lot of work behind every new release.
To be fair it is just a Chromium backend with their custom frontend. And the value Vivaldi brings is in that frontend hence it's being proprietary.
Jón von Tetzchner mentioned they been talking internally about making it open source, but it's very unlikely.
Sadly if google wants to screw ALL of them at once they can just change the licence. Of course they can keep the current and the previous versions. But then no security updates no feature updates. Didnt you ever thought about WHY did google open source it? To create a monopoly of chromium. That they controll when to screw over the "Chromium with extra steps" browsers. And if i am honest the company behind it doesnt have a good reputation, and never made anything else really FOSS, i call chromium freemium as it is foss for now but it can self destruct on a click on a button to screw all third party browsers at once. Use firefox is my all day recommendation. If you dont like firefox use librewolf. Its a REAL alternative with REAL open source software, there isnt a megacorp behind firefox rather a non-profit.
To be fair there's not much choice. It's either chromium or firefox's engine, but if i remember correctly, back then firefox implemented some weird things that got a lot of backlash from the community (extension change, etc). Another option is to build a new web engine from the ground up, but it's not worth it.
It is.... its a REAL alternative to chromium. See my answer to the other chromium fan.
@Aetherians @Rooki, there are a lot of browsers out there which you can use (~100), but the selection is drastically reduced if we take a closer look at what is there.
At the end, only viable ones are Firefox, a good browser, despite the strange relationship between Mozilla and Google as main investor.
And Vivaldi, for reasonable privacy, independence from shady investors and excellent company ethics.
Adding that Blink is somewhat better than Gecko and WebKit, at least my decision is clear