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  3. 32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera.

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

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  • jon@social.vivaldi.netJ jon@social.vivaldi.net

    32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

    I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

    Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

    We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

    I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

    #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

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    pl@cosocial.caP This user is from outside of this forum
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    @jon move away from Chrome and I'll try. The only reason to support a browser is to support diversity in the web and avoid a(nother) Google monopoly. As it is now, you're just another flavour of a Google drink.

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    • jon@social.vivaldi.netJ jon@social.vivaldi.net

      32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

      I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

      Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

      We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

      I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

      #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

      Link Preview Image
      Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

      It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

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      rigo@mamot.frR This user is from outside of this forum
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      wrote last edited by
      #62

      @jon but the Presto engine 🥹🥲! Nah, not really. But Servo is worth looking at because you may be able to secure NGI funding for it. Or tap into all the sovereignty movements in the EU.

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      • jon@social.vivaldi.netJ jon@social.vivaldi.net

        32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

        I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

        Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

        We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

        I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

        #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

        Link Preview Image
        Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

        It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

        favicon

        Vivaldi Browser (vivaldi.com)

        giorgiopasqualini@mastodon.socialG This user is from outside of this forum
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        #63

        @jon I am a super happy Vivaldi user with two major requests:

        1) Chromium should be forked and continued as open source, degoogled browser and developed as Open Source/Community project called VIVALDIUM
        2) Please move your webiste to Europe ahah

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        • jon@social.vivaldi.netJ 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.

          jkambber@social.vivaldi.netJ This user is from outside of this forum
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          wrote last edited by
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          @jon I'm convincing my mates to switch to Vivaldi , everyone I meet

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          • jon@social.vivaldi.netJ jon@social.vivaldi.net

            32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

            I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

            Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

            We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

            I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

            #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

            Link Preview Image
            Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

            It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

            favicon

            Vivaldi Browser (vivaldi.com)

            falkart@social.vivaldi.netF This user is from outside of this forum
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            #65

            @jon I used Opera since 2.0 up to Opera 12 - the last true Opera. I was so happy when Vivaldi emerged bringing the legacy of Opera 12. It's a fantastic browser and so innovative. Thank you so much for this marvel

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            • jon@social.vivaldi.netJ jon@social.vivaldi.net

              32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

              I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

              Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

              We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

              I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

              #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

              Link Preview Image
              Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

              It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

              favicon

              Vivaldi Browser (vivaldi.com)

              dalehagglund@hachyderm.ioD This user is from outside of this forum
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              @jon I switched to Vivaldi several months ago, and I really like it...

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              • lupinoarts@mstdn.socialL lupinoarts@mstdn.social

                @Catweazle as i understand, google pays Mozilla to be their default search engine, and that is how they fund development of their render engine. But the engine itself is independent from google's code, while Chromium is developed by Google directly. My point is that Gecko could exist without Google (if Mozilla found another source of income), while Chromium does not. @alaknar @jon

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                @LupinoArts @alaknar @jon, it's way more complicated, eg. it use googleanalytics, google-tagmanager, APIs from Amazon and some others. Google don't pay an half Billion Dollar to an browser with 4,5% market share only to be the default search engine.

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                • jon@social.vivaldi.netJ jon@social.vivaldi.net

                  32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

                  I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

                  Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

                  We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

                  I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

                  #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

                  Link Preview Image
                  Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

                  It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

                  favicon

                  Vivaldi Browser (vivaldi.com)

                  irishmasms@defcon.socialI This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @jon hello, and thank you.

                  Can we address the bookmark ux/UI experience though?

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