Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)Jul 10
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Show threadБин БашJul 10
@brucelawson Isn't Vivaldi just Chrome in a trenchcoat?
Show threadFionorJul 10

@binbash @brucelawson Yes and No.
It's build on chromium (which is like saying The house was build with bricks.) which is a core to basically every browser (and those who are different in that regard really suck - including Firefox).

The layers on top of chromium are what counts. And Vivaldi did really good job in focusing on consumer protection.

Show threadJer

@fionor
One thing people don't realize is that there's a lot of "Chromium libraries" even in browsers that don't use Chromium as their rendering engine. (Which is basically Firefox lol.)

@binbash @brucelawson

Jul 10 at 8:06pmWeb
Show threadJerJul 10

@fionor
One thing people don't realize is that there's a lot of "Chromium libraries" even in browsers that don't use Chromium as their rendering engine.

(Which is basically Firefox lol.)

@binbash @brucelawson

Post by Jer, @nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org

> "Off the top of my head, Safari and Firefox use the following Chromium libraries: libwebrtc, libbrotli, libvpx, libwebp, some color management libraries, libjxl (Chromium may eventually contribute a Rust JPEG-XL implementation to Firefox; it’s a hard image format to implement!), much of Saf...

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