If by “in a coat of paint” you actually mean “has built in tracker and ad blocking that works as good as UBO, was designed from the ground up by the guy who made OG Opera for the intended use case of being a privacy focused browser. Contains a lot of the same features as Opera like fully a customizable side panel, three different styles of tab stacking, workspaces, and a built in theme editor, with features like note taking baked in.” Then sure, it’s “just chrome with a paint job.”
but Vivaldi is just chrome in a coat of paint??
If by “in a coat of paint” you actually mean “has built in tracker and ad blocking that works as good as UBO, was designed from the ground up by the guy who made OG Opera for the intended use case of being a privacy focused browser. Contains a lot of the same features as Opera like fully a customizable side panel, three different styles of tab stacking, workspaces, and a built in theme editor, with features like note taking baked in.” Then sure, it’s “just chrome with a paint job.”
Is every Chromium browser just Chrome in a coat of paint to you?