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Chromium but with extra steps. Why did vivaldi choose chromium.
To be fair there's not much choice. It's either chromium or firefox's engine, but if i remember correctly, back then firefox implemented some weird things that got a lot of backlash from the community (extension change, etc). Another option is to build a new web engine from the ground up, but it's not worth it.
It is.... its a REAL alternative to chromium. See my answer to the other chromium fan.
@Aetherians @Rooki, there are a lot of browsers out there which you can use (~100), but the selection is drastically reduced if we take a closer look at what is there.
At the end, only viable ones are Firefox, a good browser, despite the strange relationship between Mozilla and Google as main investor.
And Vivaldi, for reasonable privacy, independence from shady investors and excellent company ethics.
Adding that Blink is somewhat better than Gecko and WebKit, at least my decision is clear