Maybe some of the extra privacy features (from the description I doubt the real world value of some of them) are not in Vivaldi, but despite that I would not touch the binaries. With regards of ungoogling Vivaldi is on the same level as the github project - some of the stuff the github project introduces as command line parameters is even in the normal Vivaldi settings, which makes changing them more accessible. I highly doubt that the github project gets more than a cursory test in comparison to Vivaldi, where each and every change goes through a series of tests and even more tests. Then all changes get some extra coverage by the public snapshots and finally everything that does not break stuff gets cherry picked for the stable versions.

That is the reason why Vivaldi has to pass a whole bunch of automated tests before it is even handed out to the human testers, and the reason why not only the full time employed testers check it, but a whole lot of external testers like me too, simply to get even more tests - and still sometimes regressions sneak into the snapshots, luckily mostly UI regressions because security has extra people who go through the code with a fine toothed comb. Sometimes stuff breaks that seems to be totally unrelated. I see every day with the internal Vivaldi snapshots that even small changes to the code can cause serious regressions. This is a real problem because he ease of use makes us forget that modern Browsers are hellishly complicated things. all of the changes (and they replaced some stuff with other things) are quite probably not well tested. It contains some interesting extra features that might enhance privacy, but some seem to be just changes 'because' - nice to have but not much more. Furthermore I assume that you don't plan to build that the github project from source - which again you would have in common with me - so take the following with a grain of salt.įirst impression after reading the description: Asking the question gives a hint that you probably did not look at the changes they have made - not meaning reading the description but looking in the source, neither did assumed 99.9% of all users here - including me.

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