Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon

jon

The Arch-based Linux distribution Manjaro adds Vivaldi as the default browser in its most popular Community Edition, Cinnamon.

Click here to see the full blog post

Catweazle

@jon , great, the second Distro after FerenOS

Komposten

Very happy to see this, being a Manjaro user and all! Congrats!

luetage

@jon Congrats, great news!

Ruarí

Wow… I did not see that coming… or did I?

In all seriousness the Manjaro team were fantastic to work with. A really nice bunch of people and apparently willing to forgive my glacial 🧊 replies to their questions.

Ruarí

@catweazle: And we love FerenOS, though Manjaro is a lot bigger.

Catweazle

@ruarí , a soft is as good as it's community.

DoctorG

Congrats to @jon, @Ruarí and our dev team

Ruarí

For those of you who want that theme. Switch distro!

Ok, Ok…

Background: 2F2F2F
Foreground: DBDBDB
Highlight: 579C8E
Accent: 404040

But you should at least still try Manjaro!

Catweazle

@doctorg , I have never doubted for a moment the genius of the Vivaldi team and their exceptional work, despite the few personnel. It is significant enough that a small company is mentioned at the height of the big ones on the net.

Semenov-Sherin

Why don't you add Manjaro theme for all browser users? Because I spent a lot of time to make my own dark theme for Solus, but if I had Manjaro theme I would just use it with a liitle changes.

luetage

@semenov-sherin Ruarí posted the hex codes above. If you are using the import/export theme mod you can import from here:

{"colors":{"accentBg":"#404040","baseBg":"#2f2f2f","baseFg":"#dbdbdb","highlightBg":"#579c8e"},"name":"Manjaro","settings":{"accentFromPage":false,"accentOnWindow":true,"borderRadius":"4","tabsTransparent":false},"version":0.1}

qmastery16

@komposten: one huge downside of Vivaldi - which is deal-breaker for many - is that Vivaldi is a proprietary closed source browser. And, if the sources aren't open, they could openly contain backdoors - which is especially scary for a browser. Vivaldi should open the sources.

scottytrees

Greetings from an EndeavourOS user! Been using Vivaldi from the Arch community repositories since earlier this year. Before that I was installing the Vivaldi .deb file back when I was on Pop!_OS (used also on Solus for a couple years too!), but I feel more at home on an Arch-based distro like EndeavourOS. Keep up the great work Vivaldi devs and good job to the Manjaro community team for making Vivaldi a default. It's been my go to browser since it was first released like 5-6 years a go.

npro

(Wait, another thread? Oh that's the original...
then one time again )

Hah, great news!

Looks slick indeed

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danielson

Congrats to Manjaro Community for this excellent choice!

@qmastery16 - maybe you might want to let INTEL know that we want an open source chip...

susanbn

@qmastery16: While your concerns are understandable, 95% of our source is open. This post sheds more light on the source situation with the various layers in Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

qmastery16

@danielson said in Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon:

maybe you might want to let INTEL know that we want an open source chip

if Intel refuses to provide an open source chip, there aren't many alternatives.
However, if Vivaldi refuses to release the complete sources, there are: i.e. Firefox.
It reminds me of another Manjaro story - with the Micro$oft Office shortcuts...

Xypher

It's certainly my default on both my Manjaro KDE and Windows systems

Linu74

However, there is still no official package of Vivaldi for Arch systems. These packages are converted from .deb or .rpm.

Linu74