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

[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.

[cazabon@mindly.social]

@jon

For years now, Vivaldi has been my backup browser - the one I use when a site or service works better (or at all) with a Blink-based browser rather than Firefox.

Firefox's continuing slide into slop, surveillance, and advertising may mean Vivaldi becomes my primary - or only - browser.

But you know what would speed that up? If Vivaldi launched an experimental version of its browser using Servo as the rendering engine, rather than Blink.

Anyways... Vivaldi's great, everyone should use it over the other Blink / WebKit browsers.

#Vivaldi #Blink #Servo #browser

[djdoom@mastodon.social]

I have been using Vivaldi for a number of months now and I think it’s great! Thanks for creating such a good tool for us all to use.

[bazcook@mas.to]

@jon - I have Vivaldi as my secondary browser after Waterfox (a fork of Firefox) on my Mac.
I like it - though I know I've only tried a fraction of the features on it. So why am I still on Waterfox? No efforts at AI, and I really do like the 'multi-account containers' feature on Waterfox / Firefox - limiting where websites can follow you. Not sure Vivaldi has that.

[vanzick@mastodon.social]

@jon I love using Vivaldi and is my preferred browser across my devices. Thank you!!

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

There is no better feeling than the satisfaction of seeing happy users of Vivaldi. There is a reason why I and the rest of the Vivaldi team continue to work hard on building a better browser for all of you!

It is not always easy. Building a browser across platforms and devices is not trivial to do. Connecting them all together through sync s not trivial either. Making it work well on small and large screens, using different input methods takes a lot of work as well. Having unlimited flexibility is hard as well. This is the reason why others tend not to do it. It is a lot easier to just say that the way you design it is the right way and the user is wrong.

I know there are then things that some of you would like us to do, that we have not done yet. Generally we have it on our list.
Running on a different code base is not on our list, though. It is too much work for too little gain. It is better for us to spend resources on improving the one code base we have. The more resources we have, the more we can do. When you tell your friends about Vivaldi, you help us grow and you help us be able to do more.

Thanks!
Jon.

[lisp_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon You are awesome. Keep it up.

[linuxkumpel@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon I’m a happy Vivaldi user. Thank you very much for all your hard work.

[netscapenavigator@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon

You may get some hate for it, because it is impossible to please everyone, and those who try often end up pleasing no one.

That said, stay with Chromium / Blink.

At the moment, today, Apple's WebKit has more of a market share than Mozilla's Gecko, which continues to lose ground. And whether people like it or not, Chromium / Blink is the current world stanard.

It is what people picked, and continue to use, and rely upon. It works, and it works well.

Yes, Google is an evil company. You've point that fact out, and everyone who will object will happily point that out too. But people made Chromium / Blink the majority. And until that changes, sticking around with what works makes sense.

[lisp_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@jon I find it difficult to explain to people that the real Opera Browser is now the Vivaldi Browser. I recommend your browser to people who are stuck on Chrome and other variants.

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

@lisp_1 , that is understood. You kind of have to know the history to understand that.Opera went into a very different direction after I left and that is really the reason I felt Vivaldi was needed. After the fact, there have been very many reasons why are needed and it seems like the need is increasing each day.

[jon@social.vivaldi.net]

@NetscapeNavigator , yes, I think we can make more positive change by influencing Chromium at this time. The more resources we have, the more we can influence. We are already influencing most other browsers as they look our way for ideas.

[exitcode@fosstodon.org]

@jon have you looked at Servo as the possible engine Vivaldi could run on?

[elijquilting@beige.party]

@jon Thank you for your work. Vivaldi is my preferred browser