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I wonder if for a company with less security resources than Google, it actually more secure to develop to develop close-sourced? Is source helpful when developing exploits? Intuitively it seems that it would be extremely helpful for the devious minded-individual.

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Security researchers are very used to attacking binaries. The small bit of obscurity you get from hiding the source buys you very little security. And the most insecure internet-facing bits of code of the past decade - Flash and Acrobat PDF viewer - have always been closed source.

Their browser based on Chromium and when there is source available it's at least possible to see how fast they apply security fixes from upstream. For end-user of product there no way closed source browser can ever be more secure.

to clarify be more secure _because_ it is closed source.

https://vivaldi.com/source/

Huh, so what it the license then? I notice that 1.8 is the latest version for downloading but on the source page you linked to the latest is 1.7. Do they release source for previous version only?

I looked around a bit and didn't see anything about the license on their site. If I missed it and someone has a link that would be appreciated!

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