Comment on Here we go again
danielton@lemmy.world 10 months agoThe enshittification of Opera sucks… I used to like them when they had their own Presto rendering engine. I heard Vivaldi is the spiritual successor, but it, too, is based on Chromium.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Vivaldi isn’t just the spiritual successor, it’s built by the guy who made the original Opera. Its baked in Ad and Tracker blocking rival UBO and it has all the features Fox can only hope to barely emulate with Mozilla extensions.
I’ve got FF loaded up and set up how I like, but I won’t be switching over until Vivaldi doesn’t perform correctly.
westyvw@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So re-badged Chromium with closed source changes. Dependent on the upstream chromium. Doesnt seem like a good idea to me.
danielton@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hah you beat me to it. That’s why I said “spiritual,” because it’s still Chromium under the hood.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How do you know it’s dependent?
westyvw@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It isnt a fork though, its just built on top of. Which is probably smarter than a fork, they dont have to do all that other work. It is interesting that the web hints and the user agent now say Chrome in the vavaldi reporting. At least I think it did: search for “what is my user agent” and it will tell you.