Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome
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@tbgbe I snatched a screenshot, just in case. Probably the 1.16 will switch to Chr67.
That engine gave me a hard time on mouse, proprietary media.
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@mib2berlin said in Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome:
Hi, I meant it use security patches of Chromium 67.
Thanks for taking your time to provide the link. Just out of curiosity, do you use backport?
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@tbgbe said in Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome:
The engine is Chr65 - however, (applicable !? ) security updates from Chr67 were "backported" into Vivaldi Stable using an update.
Same question, how often you backport any piece of softaware?
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Backport is a repository for testing. All the packages have a high number version of the stable version. It's a procedure where you get a small "piece" of the software to use in the stable soft.
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@healing_cross To "backport" a security fix means to include a fix that was issued in a later version, as part of an earlier version. As the fixes are in the Chromium code, you can rely on them to the same degeree that you could rely on the same fixes in Chrome.
It is not for Vivaldi (or anyone) to proclaim whether you can "rely" on all or any particular security patch. You use free software that you download from the web at your own risk. You decide whether to trust it or not based upon reputation and your prior experience, if any with the software. No one can guarantee how secure a particular piece of software is.
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@healing_cross said in Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome:
Can I rely on all the security patches that were built into recent versions of Chrome ........
Absolutely, yes.
You posted while I composing the backport question. -
@healing_cross When you update to any "new" version, any backports that were included in an earlier number of that same stream will also be included in the updated version. Nothing is determined by the manner in which you update. What is in the software is what is in it.
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@lamarca said in Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome:
Same question, how often you backport any piece of softaware?
Haven't done it for years now.
But Vivaldi devs have done it to a few Stable versions when a new Chromium was released.
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@tbgbe Skipping from 65 to 67, they had no other way. Backporting Kernel is funny when there's time. I am on 4.9.110-1
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@healing_cross If Vivaldi had a 200-strong development team like Opera does, it would be in much closer sync with the Chromium release schedule. Instead, it has about a tenth that - so there are fewer people to do the work of keeping up.
That said, Vivaldi and Opera are designed differently (in order for Vivaldi to have the flexibility to add the features that it does), and that difference often means that Chromium changes create regressions in Vivaldi that Opera does not suffer from.
When Chromium changes do not severely break Vivaldi, then even the very small team is able to keep up with the Chromium release schedule on about a 1-week delay. About the same as Opera.
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@ayespy said in Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome:
That said, Vivaldi and Opera are designed differently
They are completely different both of performance and strategy.
@ayespy said in Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome:
..... changes create regressions in Vivaldi that Opera does not suffer from.
Those regression are expected. Many Ɵpera's users complain about Vivaldi keeps the engine synchronized with Chromium.
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@healing_cross My pleasure.
That's what I heard: many ȍepra users complaining or questioning the use of engine version.
Their browser uses the previous version while Vivaldi doesn't. -
@healing_cross You know the Web is plenty of rumors. A simple comment is easily distorted.
The main drawback of Vivaldi is when Chrome changes a path.
From an old Latin proverb:Fortune favours the bold
@healing_cross said in Vivaldi: Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome:
Happily trying Vivaldi now for two weeks and won't change anytime soon.
Really glad to know:)
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Is it possible to do a very basic feature that is to use system font for the browser UI on the native platforms or the least a flag to do so ? Forums are less helpful too
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