People who are involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t available under a unified open-source license. Here we explain why.

I know that many reject Vivaldi, because he is not entirely FOSS and only listed as Free-Proprietary, although I think that it is not at all fair to compare it for this with others in this category. The small part, about 5% of the code is obfuscated for good reasons. However, it does not prevent the user from modifying it to their liking and it is even encouraged by Vivaldi, but it does prevent large companies (Google) from making a fork of Vivaldi and thereby destroying this still small cooperative.

  • @nerdyguy1990
    1•3 years ago

    I was a HUGE fan of opera, before it was traded hands, and I do use Vivaldi on occasion. I really liked Opera’s battery saving option, and bookmarks manager. It was unique. Vivaldi also has a unique bookmark manager. I really hope Vivaldi includes a battery-saver in an upcoming release. It’d be great if they upped the ante for tracking protection also. I’m glad they are against FLOC.

    • @ZerushOP
      2•3 years ago

      Vivaldi permits to add ad and tracking filters to the blockers in the privacy settings, it includes also a blocking from annoying advertising Pop ups “We use cookies”

      Same as in old Opera, you can hibernate tabs to save battery.