32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera.

[marcin_kras@mastodon.social]

@jon Isn't Chromium dependency a liability in terms of digital sovereignty? I am trying to understand those who argue that Mozilla, by maintaining Gecko, is the last stand against Google's technological monopoly.

[makeratschool@kanoa.de]

@jon That’s why I’m such a big fan of the Fediverse: honest people do honest things and talk about them—not just with their investors, but above all with their users.
Many thanks for the work all if you are doing.

[cynical13@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon

#Vivaldi is my favorite Chromium browser. Some of the features, like the ability to strip tracking info from links, is really helpful. I think it has one of the nicest looking reader modes that I've come across. The ability to hide specific UI elements until the mouse is moved over them has really helped with screen real estate on my small laptop screen.

But I wish it had a way to pin tabs across workspaces the way #ZenBrowser does.

Or how in Gecko-based browsers, when you take a screen capture, it will highlight different items on the web page automatically, instead of dragging a box to capture specific parts of a page.

If I could cobble together my ideal web browser from existing projects, I'd definitely take a lot from Vivaldi.

[cynical13@social.vivaldi.net]

@Petesmom @jon

That would be nice. For a browser that partly sells itself on #NoAI, there are a lot of partners who have dived right into the deep end on AI, like Proton, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, etc.

[baardhaveland@snabelen.no]

@hobbs

I create at least one profile per customer to avoid mix-ups. And also one per admin account tier to avoid ID conflicts when juggling more of them at once.

(Hopefully profile groups will come in the future.)

I add random colours to each profile to help keeping the windows apart visually.

What happens within each profile window, does not affect any other profile window. This includes active tabs, favourites, password manager, and addons.

Endless possibilities!

[flense@mastodon.social]

@jon the only reason i dont try it, is because it is Chromium.

[ross@crikey.social]

@jon Recent Vivaldi adopter here. Thanks for all that you do. Took me a while to get going but I’m in and enjoying it now.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@jon i tried it and once i upgrade my linux desktops, it’ll definitely become my default browser but i cant on android, which i use way more these days thanks to my tablet.

i tried vivaldi-andoid but i can’t use extensions? is there a hidden, developer feature to add extensions?

i need my obsidian extension and a few other extensions as part of my normal browsing. it’s both a usability and workflow issue.

the firefox redesign ―which nobody asked for― messed up my usability setup.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@jon Too many pestering emails immediately followed installing Vivaldi. It irritated me multiple times a day for a week. I'd barely begun to even look at the damn thing. I uninstalled it and blocked the emails.

[wojtek@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon I'm still sad about #Opera and #Presto. I do SO DAMN FAAAST

[alaknar@mastodon.social]

@jon Are you guys ever thinking of writing your own engine, to get away from the monopoly of Chromium?

[leeloo@c.im]

@hobbs @baardhaveland @jon
There are two way of creating profiles in Vivaldi, and only one is available in the UI. As far as I know, the UI one is not able to open two profiles at the same time.

The other one is, but requires using the command line or creating a new shortcut.

Simply add

--user-data-dir=<path to a new empty directory>

after the path to the Vivaldi executable.

This does not allow running different profiles in tabs in the same window, they are completely separate.

[baardhaveland@snabelen.no]

@hobbs

Yeah, I know how it is... Good luck!

[lupinoarts@mstdn.social]

@alaknar @jon or switch to Gecko, the backend of #Firefox... Just to get away from Google...

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@LupinoArts @alaknar @jon Anything not under EULA would be nice.

[metgitarenenzo@waag.social]

@jon I have had those two as my main browsers the past decades, so I really appreciate your work - every single day.

[elias@radikal.social]

@jon been using Vivaldi for a year now and I absolutely love it. Your ad and tracking blocker is the best I’ve tried and I love that it has a browser level VPN so I don’t have to have all my internet traffic go through VPN.
Keep up the good work!
#NotSponsored

[catweazle@social.vivaldi.net]

@LupinoArts @alaknar @jon, don't confuse it, Mozilla without Google would not longer exist, independent that it isn't possible to switch the engine without to develope the browser from scratch, less for a small team like Vivaldi.

All 3 current engines are from big US tech companies, apart of some irrelevant forks. The engine is by far the most complex part of an browser, reason because there isn't any new engine since more than 20 years. Ther is one, Ladybird, which try to release a browser with an independent engine since several years now, until today not even an alpha version, they will end between, IMHO, the list of >70 already abandoned and discontinued browsers.

The only possibility is that an european company fork and maintane the Chromium engine, maybe KDE? At least Blink/Chromium is a fork of their KHTML.

[markstos@urbanists.social]

@marcin_kras @jon Because Chromium is open, if there are parts of it that don’t meet Vivaldi’s needs, it can be changed.

[mxhdroom@mas.to]

@jon I'm quite happy with Vivaldi and I use it on the laptop and my 'phone. Thanks for all you do.