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Do there exist any good FOSS Chrome based browsers for Android? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by to c/android@lemmy.world
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Firefox with its forks went sluggish recently and I want to try something new. The only Chrome based browser worth mentioning I know is Brave, but it is bloated as hell. I heard of Vanadium, but found no prebuilt binaries.

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Where to start? Vivaldi is not proprietary, it's Chromium based. It's made in Europe which is a sell for me as a European. It uses a lot of the good stuff Opera used to have as a mobile browser way before smartphones. It can sync with your desktop so any tabs you have open on your phone you can instantly view on your desktop. The password manager is really good. It has a lot of customization options so you can have it look exactly the way you want. Despite all this it's still quick, one of the fastest browsers out there. The built-in adblocker is about as good as Brave's. You can install desktop extensions on the Android version. It has built-in mail and calendar clients. It's free.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Lol. MacOS is based on BSD and Mach which are open source, but MacOS is still proprietary. Any normal modern browser syncs anything between devices and has a builtin password manager (which supports sync as well). Even stock Firefox is customizable with countless themes and vertical tabs and has a decent adblocker. No idea why you need calendar in a browser though.

    And, finally, a quote from Vivaldi's EULA, showing its high attitude to being FOSS:

    7\. Without limiting the foregoing, you are neither allowed to (a) adapt, alter, translate, embed into any other product or otherwise create derivative works of, or otherwise modify the Software ; (b) separate the component programs of the Software for use on different computers; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except as permitted by applicable law; or (d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices on the Software or the applicable documentation therein.

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