The People’s browser: Bruce Hamilton

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To celebrate the release of Vivaldi 2.0, we publish several stories of Vivaldi users who talk about how Vivaldi has impacted the world of browsers, and their lives.

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Catweazle

Nice article, thanks @Ayespy
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Steffie

on the Opera blog, someone mentioned that Jon ... had introduced Vivaldi to the world, so I had to go look

Ditto exactly for me [except i was a slow-coach], 7/Feb/15.

Ayespy

K- so those aren't my hands in the pic above, but someone has evidently caught on to my coffee addiction, so...

Para-Noid

Nice article @Ayespy Sometimes I feel at a loss. It seems so many Vivaldi users are Opera refugees. I am not one of them. I tried Opera and never liked it. Maybe it was the GUI. Not sure. Although not a power user I have found V to be more user friendly for the newbie than Chrome or Firefox. Both Chrome and FF appear to me as "one size fits all" browsers. The inter-web is not "one size fits all". Ever since I gave up the other two browsers I feel liberated by Vivaldi.

QuHno

@para-noid: While being an "Opera refugee" myself, I know a lot of people who weren't - but I can say that Opera was the ultimate chameleon with regards of customizing - I have set up some Operas for other people in a way that they weren't able to distinguish it from their standard browser (I had fitting skins for those too, so even the optics was identical) as long as they didn't go into the settings and saw the plethora of stuff they had extra.

But yes, Vivaldi is really nice too, that's why I became a (very) early adopter.

Ayespy

@quhno I did that for my Father-in-Law - made Opera 12 look and work like IE for him. He never knew the difference. But it did work better than IE on his dial-up connection.

QuHno

@ayespy Here was more Firefox land - putting Opera on those machines and not installing the 157(!) Extensions you'd have to install to get all stuff Opera had already built in made even slower computers to racing machines.
(Rijk had a statistic back then )