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Can someone knowledgeable comment on the possibility of VivLdi becoming the de facto standard browser for Linux? I played with it a little, thought it worked well, and most notably, it worked well for websites that gave Firefox trouble.

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Very low chance: it's another Chromium browser but with proprietary modifications. I think Chromium proper would become standard before Vivaldi.

Being proprietary it can't be part of the Debian destribution, and the license might be problematic for other distros to include as well.

I'd prefer to see Brave be the de facto default. Except for some crypto stuff that is bundled by default, it seems to be really nice and even ships its own privacy focused search engine.

(Disclaimer: I personally don't daily drive Brave, but I would consider it if I ever decided to drop Opera.)

Brave is really showing up in terms of privacy and security focused browsing. What's interesting to me is that Mozilla had Brendan Eich, and excused him. And today, with Eich at the helm, Brave is climbing the ranks while Mozilla finds itself in an ever-increasing slump.

I hadn't heard about Brave. Just started using it, and finding it very nice so far. Easy to get started, as the import from Firefox was quick and painless. I have high hopes for this one.

This article pointed out that GNOME Web and Falkon have problem as they are WebKit and Chromium based. Is not Vivaldi Chromium as well?

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