Vivaldi is not fully open-source

Firefox + uBlock Origin is the only thing that makes mobile browsing tolerable. Ads are so bad, and web design so poor, that even if you're someone who is usually ok with advertising you'll often find that sites are literally broken if you allow them to render.

Safari isn't open source but there's Gnome Web.
It's built on the open source WebKit engine.
also yeah you made a mistake there. webkit is in fact foss.

Avoid proprietary software.

Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge and Vivaldi are not open source. Chromium is open source but all those browsers add additional proprietary functionality on top.

Edit: I read the table wrong. The open source columns seem to be about their left column. Still, I find the table to be misleading. Especially since almost all browsers use an open source engine, except Safari. Imo it's more important whether the actual browser is open source. Which boils down to Firefox and Tor and Brave as far as I know.

were opera is open source lmao

most of that list is not opensource, only firefox, everything has just chromium as opensource, what don't change anything because the company can put the same crappy on top of chromium

I used to use Opera back when they had their own JavaScript and rendering engine, then bailed and switched back to Firefox when they became a chromium clone.

@dmenis @Vivaldi @firefox

Maybe Gecko still hasn't become embeddable again❓:
https://www.chrislord.net/2016/02/24/the-case-for-an-embeddable-gecko/

For the Vivaldi choice : https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-vs-google-chrome/#Whats_in_an_engine

You can use Floorp, which is a soft fork of Firefox with Vivaldi features

That's a weird chart in the thumbnail.

Almost all of the common chromium based browsers, but only mainline firefox.

Anyway, it's definitely a good thing to use more than just the chrome based browsers for the exact reason you said.

However, vivaldi is a decent choice for when you need to. Yeah, their ui isn't open source, but it really doesn't matter in real world use. The only other option for me is ungoogled chromium, and cromite on android.

On android, my main browser is mull, with Iibrewolf on PC. I can't say any non chromium browsers are perfect on android, but mull is plenty fast and does everything you want it to do, and doesn't do what you don't want.

Personally I'm hyped for Servo

@dmenis @Vivaldi @firefox

https://privacytests.org

Does Firefox on Android still have whatever supposed flaw the graphene os team said it has? Their own chromium based browser is very lacking in the UX department. Very thumb crampy button layout. They also recommended bromite which is dead. There is cromite which is a fork but it largely has the same issues. I use Firefox on PC, and literally everything else is entirely untrustworthy. The goog has created a pretty lousy situation for the internet where everyone proudly simps for their favourite shitty chrome clones that take advantage of their users.