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save us vivaldi you're our only hope
Vivaldi is in big part closed source, so we literally don't know what it does behind the scenes
closed source due to the small team but they're also incredibly open about both the company the advocacy for the internet
There are open source projects created and managed by a single developer. A "small team" is not a reason to be closed source.
Nah, Firefox. Anything based on the blink engine is vulnerable to upstream fuckiness.
Ladybird is also getting there.
so aren't firefox forks
and ladybird might be nice but the dev outed himself as a right wing bigot
Servo browser is the other big from the ground browser project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_%28software%29
Firefox forks are less vulnerable purely due to the fact that the main browser engine isnt being developed by a self interested advertising company. (See the recent manifest V3 and discontinuation of V2 shitshow for a example of googles stranglehold causing problems)
& when it comes to browser engines I'll set politics aside even if someone has views in very poor taste. The project overall is FOSS and thusly is being developed by hundreds of contributors, I've contributed a few bits and pieces for it even.
Having an additional standalone browser engine serves as insurance against Mozilla doing a stupid and a bulwark against Google dominance.