Easily install your favourite browsers on Fedora Atomic Desktops, Silverblue, Kinoite, uBlue, Bazzite, Aurora, Bluefin, Secureblue etc.
Is there any good reason to use Vivaldi? Nice to see more scripts from you. I have been thinking about making some scripts to automate the deployment of Bubblejail profiles for different apps. I don’t run nearly anything without sandboxing, and Bubblejail does not interfer with the Chromium sandbox.
I use it for a few years now, it’s very customizable. In my opinion the best Chromium-based browser. I recommend either Vivaldi or Firefox depending on your needs.
I would never use Vivaldi just because it is closed source, doesnt add proper fingerprinting protections, and does not provide a secure default config. Cromite and Brave are better options (for me).
I’ve never heard of Cromite so don’t have an opinion, but Brave is super shady, with crypto-shilling, ad-injecting, adding tracking codes to clicked URLs that didn’t have them, something so privacy ruining you’d be better of using Chrome. They can’t be trusted, and I’m not even getting to the CEO being a questionable figure. Nobody should use it, let alone anyone caring about privacy. People prioritizing privacy should be using Firefox or Vivaldi, both privacy focused browsers.
Vivaldi is not closed source. It’s not open source either (they don’t accept PRs), but the source is available.
Vivaldi is closed source, they say so on their website. I don’t like the CEO of Brave, neither do I like the crypto nonesense, but arguing that Vivaldi is better for privacy (let alone vanilla chrome) is incredibly incorrect. Brave actually does a decent job of anti-fingerprinting and has strong site isolation. I prefer Cromite because it isnt associated with Brave or any crypto.
Browser comparison table by the developer of DivestOS: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
I dont use Vivaldi haha, but their installation is so weird that I wanted to fix that.
I use Firefox and since bubblejail has support for firefoxes name on Fedora (bubblejail is strange) I tried it and got memory issues or something, pretty crazy.
I think vivaldi is just as fine as regular Chromium, probably slower patches. A debloated Brave will be better for privacy.
No, not for browsers.
Chromium Browsers may be secure, but afaik there was no security audit of Chromium Flatpaks. Their sandbox is highly modified, so one would really make sense.
I don’t use it, but from what I understand it’s from the developers of Opera before it became a Chinese spyware browser. Back when it was good. It’s great if you’re looking for customization and options.
As a disclaimer, the reason I don’t use it is because I need a Chromium browser for work and Vivaldi (a Chromium based browser) gave me an error that said I need to use Chrome or Edge.
Vivaldi is chromium based though? I use it at work with all the Google tools.
I know it is. That’s exactly why I mentioned that happening. Sorry if that was unclear.
ETA: I just read my previous comment again. I meant to say Vivaldi, not Opera.
That makes more sense :)
I guess they use a weird way to detect browser? I wonder if changing user agent string would work? There’s a ”user agent brand masking“ setting in Vivaldi.
I’m all for user agent settings, but I don’t want to mess with that for work stuff. So, I just use Chrome or Edge for that one site.
Fair enough
This. It’s incredibly customizable, I’d daily drive it of it didn’t mean contributing to the Chromium monopoly
Cool! Thanks for building this
