I think the inception of Brave and Vivaldi was more so due to one upholding principality and maintain that more than anything and unarguably both Eich and Tetzchner don’t pretend that this is the primary reason for each individual browsers’ development.
Considering the numerous times I’ve badgered the team rather stupidly on a couple of occasions, please don’t think this is fundamentally a plea for the team to jump the gun to v1.0.0 and get as many engineers in one house to push as many releases just to ease users concern by fixing as many bugs. Though that is what most of the effort is placed on, I don’t think anyone from both sides of the water agree that, that should be the reasoning for it.
I think Brave has stepped up its efforts recently to invite or should I say bring user similarly as has Vivaldi in the same manner but in more lively manner. I don’t want to over speculate but I think this approach of tantalizing users of other browsers is going to give an incredibly difficult stance on both browsers in this small market and while both browsers do have an edge to them, both browsers similarly are in a daunting position and procedure given they have to technically sell a new and unfurnished product which will remain that way for a couple of years to several million users at the least and all of whom are arguably already using a near perfect browser.
I believe Vivaldi rather unfortunately is still at an unprofitable stage as is Brave; to my understanding, Eich raised a total of 42 million from ICO and private investment and Tetzchner is personally funding the project and probably will continue to do so until Vivaldi sees an uptake of several million more users but I think that still won’t be enough to consider it a successful browser, not for Vivaldi necessarily but every browser that isn’t Chrome, Firefox and UC Browser.
Correct me if I’m mistaken but I think Opera has held a stagnant market share of around 5%; I tested it recently having never used it before and I have to say, the startup of the browser is beyond belief, it is truly the best compared to every single other browser in beta and non beta. That being, I wish both browsers could exceed the market share of Opera but I don’t see how it can achieve it soon, not to contradict my self by suggesting acceleration of some kind because I really mean in terms respecting the technology in contrast to the others. A carefully crafted Enterprise version will give a significant boost and would be adored without a shadow of doubt but that isn’t even on the cards yet as brilliantly described by one of the engineers here after I insisted upon it. With a great influx of engineers this would definitely be more ideal sooner and may all the new browser to actually compete with the top three browsers based on a more simple plan for adoption.
I imagine most if not all of the team behind both relatively new browsers are in consensus of the principality behind the framework and the necessity of such a browser and I think what I’m sort of implying but haven’t outspoken should be taken into great consideration (not to come across as demanding 
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Rather than strain users any longer and making it come across as a happy-go-lucky girl trying to set her best friend up on a blind date, could we the community, indulge a For and Against for this topic to see if others agree:
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Against - Not very competitive but arguably this can be construed as an oxy-moron because both browsers wouldn’t easily compete with the likes of Mozilla and Google anyway, unless one of them liquidates their assets.
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Against - Integrating that many engineers around one specific product will be a difficult task to undertake and maybe there will be power struggle of some kind. However, I very much doubt that finance unless it’s related to raising funds to garner attention is a huge concern considering they’re quite affluent (not to sound vulgar) and both CEOs have practically been in the same discomfiting situation of letting go of something they co-founded.
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For - Both CEOs know the feeling of getting shunned
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For - Both members believe in providing privacy and security and consider it the utmost of importance to protect user privacy
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For - Brave users wish they could have aspects Vivaldi’s features vice versa
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For - Vivaldi’s servers are based in secure locations where privacy is more respected on a gov level as well
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For - Vivaldi could quite easily supersede Brave on UI/UX (currently) Seeing Tetzchner primarily focused on the UI/UX front when he co-founded Opera and similarly when he founded Vivaldi, it would put many traditional browser users at ease.
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Both are based off of Chromium but I’d like to hear a member of the teams’ response of how different it is after listening to the specific parts on sound cloud (3:34 to 5:05), (16:04 to 20:46) FYI (16:04 to 20:46) is more interesting. Here’s the actual link of sound cloud pertaining to Chromium
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For - Both teams are always hiring and will be obligated to do so anyway with rapid growth
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For - Trustworthy individuals behind both browsers, not excluding the team
Finally, braking the mold of speaking indirectly about what I’m implying should happen, which one has a better ring to it - BravAldi or VivaBrave?
First one in my opinion may confuse people with a supermarket chain, where as the second one has a more radical and prominent stance, you know; long live those that are brave.
