A web browser based on Chromium, but inspired by the original Opera. Chock-full of innovative and original features, but partly proprietary. See also Ungoogled Chromium and Brave.
We’ve really gone off Chrome and Chromium here at remote Linux Format Towers. Firefox has latterly become much more our cup of tea, and there’s good reason for it to be yours, too.
However, there are other choices and if you were looking then you could do a lot worse than Vivaldi. It’s based on Chromium, so you get the speedy Blink web engine plus the option to install extensions from the Chrome store. But it looks, frankly, much more interesting than either Google browser, and hopefully cares a little bit more about your privacy.
Why hopefully? Thing is, Vivaldi isn’t quite open source. There are a few UI features that Vivaldi Technologies has decided to keep to themselves, and that’s fair enough. But it’ll also stop a lot of people reading right about now. See ya then…
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