Is Vivaldi the same as Chrome

[mapuc]

Is the browser Vivaldi the same as Chrome or is it similar to Chrome ?

Why I'm asking is because I have read that you can "transfer" plug-ins from your Chrome browser to your Vivaldi browser.

If Vivaldi is the same or almost the same as Chrome(have read they use same type of engine and other stuff.)

Does a Vivaldi use have the same problems Chrome user have, when using Facebook-People who use Chrome as their main browser to Facebook get virus/hoaxes via Messengers.

If so, then Vivaldi isn't better than Chrome.

I also know Vivaldi is next generation Opera browser.

Hope you understand what I'm asking-´cause I don't know how to put it.

Have tried to figure out what Vivaldi is and if it's the same as Chrome.

Markus

[fred8615]

Vivaldi uses the Chromium engine that Chrome uses, but without all the tracking that Chrome proper has. It's also far more customizable than Chrome, and has a few more builtin features that Chrome requires you to install extensions to use. If you still want though, it will use any and all Chrome extensions, except themes.

I don't know about the Facebook/Messenger question as I don't have a Facebook account.

[mapuc]

Thank you.

Now I have to wait for someone in here who have this Vivaldi and Facebook.
I was thinking of telling my FB-friends to use this Vivaldi, but if a Vivaldi user have the same problems I will not do it-Tell them to get Vivaldi instead.

Markus

[Skybird]

Rockin Robbins is a user and fan of Vivaldi. Drop him a PM.

Vivalid was put together by former Firefox staff that were not happy with the way things went down the drain at Mozilla, and left, more or less in anger.

Firefox since a few weeks now also runs under the Chromium engine. Thats why many secvurity and privacy addons for it are broken, or have been rewritten but work not well, and many modders have left Firefox, becasue they took the sh!t from angry users although it is not their guilt, but Mozilla's. Privacy protection , once the prime argument in favour of Firefox, has seen an extreme, wanted weakening. Firefox, Vivaldi, Chrome - i do not see big differences anymore.

I was thinking about getting Vivaldi myself, but since I learned it also uses Chromium, I fail to see the point in switching.

[HW3]

I use Chrome as my main browser for Facebook, and I do not get virus/hoaxes via Messenger.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by HW3

I use Chrome as my main browser for Facebook, and I do not get virus/hoaxes via Messenger.

Thank you.

Now I wonder why my FB friends, who also use Chrome as their main browser for FB get these virus and hoaxes ?

I have since some year back asked them which browser they were using and all of them said Chrome.

I good FB friends is so tired of these hoaxes and all these virus that keeps on coming, and he is not interested in going back to IE, Firefox and Opera.

I was thinking on recommend him this Vivaldi, but if a Vivaldi user also get these hoaxes and/or virus, he can stay with his Chrome.

Markus

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Vivalid was put together by former Firefox staff that were not happy with the way things went down the drain at Mozilla, and left, more or less in anger.

Not quite. Vivaldi was started by the guy who started the original Opera. He didn't like the direction Opera was going.

Firefox since a few weeks now also runs under the Chromium engine. Thats why many secvurity and privacy addons for it are broken, or have been rewritten but work not well, and many modders have left Firefox...

Wrong on both counts. FF still uses their own rendering engine, not Chromium. And the reason most of the addons stopped working was because they made a conscious decision to stop using the method they were written in. That did cause a lot of modders and users to leave.

I was thinking about getting Vivaldi myself, but since I learned it also uses Chromium, I fail to see the point in switching.

As I said earlier, while it uses Chromium, it doesn't have all the user tracking Chrome proper does. And because it uses Chromium, it gives a much higher score on html5test.com than FF or Edge.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by fred8615

Not quite. Vivaldi was started by the guy who started the original Opera. He didn't like the direction Opera was going.

Argh - yes, think you are right. I allowed to get fooled by my memory. My fault.

Many extensions in Firefox do not work anymore since the new basic digital DNA from Chromium does not allow certain tasks being done in the way they were done in the old Firefox (pre-Quantum). This was done by Mozilla to speed the browser up that got bogged down sometimes by all those many addons doing too many tasks costing too much CPU time. Since these working methods of the old addons are not compatible with the rules of Chromium, their authors cannot keep up old itnerafces and extensions, or cannot attach needed adapatation within a reaosmable amont oif work and time. Onme of ther most primninent victims is No-.Script. Before, it worked great, now it is a pain, I have deleted it. Another famous mod whose authors gave up is One-Side-Bar. All in all of the maybe 6 or 7 addons I used before Quantujm, today I only maintain three - the others have been given up, or work too bad.

Wrong prioritizing by Mozilla, imo, as I explained earlier. They placed a bet for speed, but traded away the opriume aregument that spoke for Firefox: proteciton of proivacy features and preventing snooping. None of Chrome, Edge, Firefox Quantum, Opera post-version-12, can succeed Firefox classic in this. Anmd since the speed gains are almost unperceivable to me, I only see the loss of privacy protection, uncompensated by anything .

Opera did the same some years ago,m and with adding some very questionable, weak desing decisions. They got delivered the bill: they lost 50% of their already small user base back then within two months.

Last time I read about Firefox users, was after arrival of Quantujm. Thy too have seen a huge loss in users, one quarter, if I remember correctly.

P.S. Ah here it is:

Firefox, whose maker recently overhauled the browser, also took it on the chin when Net Applications scratched out bot traffic. In the new, cleansed data, Firefox's user share dropped 3.5 points in 2017, representing a 24% decline. That was the largest decrease among the world's top browsers.

https://www.computerworld.com/articl...ost-share.html

Mozilla maybe had to do something, since the constantly lost shares sinc elonger time now, but they did the wrong thing. This Quantum will not change the trend.

I think everything points at Google Chrome as the winner of the browser war on PC. If counting all computer devices, the winner can only be named as Android.