Is Vivaldi the same as Chrome

[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.