The 4-year challenge
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@AnrDaemon said in The 4-year challenge:
The browser with the most amazing community (350 000 strong to be more precise).
Does that help me browse internet? No. Irrelevant.
But… but we are amazing /:
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Started off with Chrome, moved on to Firefox (mostly to spare resources on my old machine), started using vivaldi thanks to a friend recommendation. default browser since that day. (I keep a bundle of other browsers for test purposes, but I use Vivaldi 99.998% of the time)
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July 2014: Opera
From then until now, Firefox, but I'm watching Vivaldi closely. -
2015: Maxton main, Firefox additional, Cent for speed search.
2019: Waterfox main, Opera for vpn, Vivaldi for research.main thing i lack right now is customize-ability for menus and some more crash-proof auto-backup to be sure all tabs stay safe.
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4 years ago I used Opera, but now I user this fella
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So, I've been using Opera for a long time, and after they've ditched the Presto engine, I had a hard time finding the right browser. I was bouncing back and forth between Firefox and Chrome, until I found Vivaldi. After that day, Vivaldi became my main browser. The oldest installer of Vivaldi that I have is for version 1.0.219.50, before the official 1.0 release.
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Hmm, let's see. Four years ago I was probably switching between Chrome and Internet Explorer 11 (IE got considerably better after version 9). Between 2008 and 2011, I had used Chrome almost exclusively. But now, I use a combination of Edge, Brave (more as just an experiment), and Vivaldi. Vivaldi has a really strong feature set. But Edge (which I use almost exclusively on mobile) has some compelling desktop features too, like Set Tabs Aside, a feature rich page annotation and sharing function, and Ask Cortana which provides a floating panel of info on whatever you've highlighted. It's adoption of Chromium and Blink will make it even more interesting later this year. Vivaldi is my favorite browser on a desktop, but its lack of touchpad gesture support makes Edge a nice option on my ultrabook. Looking forward to watching the progress of Vivaldi for the next four years!
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Regarding my 'primary' browser history:
Mosaic
IE2
Navigator
IE4
Opera 7
Firebird 0.7
Firefox 1
Opera 8-12
Firefox
Vivaldi (the 4 years since its inception)Vivaldi's future looks good... it may be my last browser!
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No change.
I used Opera 12, and I'm still using Opera 12, because Vivaldi doesn't have RSS implemented. Sometimes I use Firefox (like now, because I was on YouTube, which no longer works on Opera), but most of my browsing is still with the big O.
And I guess I'll be using Opera until someone - Vivaldi, Firefox, Chrome - finally realizes that RSS is one of the most important things a browser should have.
It's surprising how well O12 still works with today's internet. Yeah, sure, many things are broken, but it's not THAT bad, because there's RSS
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After using Firefox for 5 years or so, I was happy to hear the news that Jon and Tatsuki were getting ready to bring us a fun browser to use and customize again. It was 2015, and I was in Japan.
I fell in love with the chameleon color feature at first glance and excitedly waited for a stable version to come for my daily usage.
I moved to Norway in early 2016, and almost right after that, Vivaldi 1.0 was launched. I even remember the moment; I was sitting in the student cafeteria at University of Oslo, doing my freelance work on my laptop. A new life, a new browser.
A year later, I joined the team (!!)
Now I live with Vivaldi every single day. I'm happy to see its growth as a fan user and even happier to be part of the process as a team member.
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January 2015, and today
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@rseiler: Same here, still Using Opera for Mail
BTW: Any hope für mail this year? -
@Wolfgang said in The 4-year challenge:
BTW: Any hope für mail this year?
Unfortunately, there is no answer for your (our) question.
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The first browser I ever used was IE. Didn't like it. Someone mentioned Firefox. Used Firefox for a while. Used Chrome. Then both FF and Chrome. Wasn't exactly thrilled with either of them so one day in August 2016 I started looking for a new browser. Did an internet search and found Vivaldi. Started using V one afternoon and I knew I had found "my" browser.
If any of my previous browsers could do what Vivaldi does I'd still be using them. I fully agree with @Sojiro84 when he said and I quote word for word, "Chrome and Firefox are bland featureless browsers that are useless for me."
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@AnrDaemon Normally I'd keep my mouth shut but you seem to be misleading yourself. Items in quotes are just that, quotes.
Quote..."The most customizable browser out there (install and tweak away)." Oh yeah. Vivaldi is just that.
Quote..."The browser that does not track you (our business is building the browser, not how you use it)." Very true.
Quote..."The browser with the most amazing community (350 000 strong to be more precise)."
Your own reply and I quote..."Does that help me browse internet? No. Irrelevant." The community as a whole does indeed help you browse better. So this point is very relevant.Quote..."The browser that reflects what our users want (and not the agenda of investors pushing for profit)." Vivaldi very much does reflect the wants of their users. That said, your own reply and I quote word for word..."Except two most demanded features, two icons of security that Opera 12 offered to their users, are yet to be implemented." If you are implying M3 and a RSS reader, you're correct. However, Vivaldi is working on them. "Two icons of security" (?) I have no idea what you are talking about.
Quote..."1/4. Not the best score." Honestly, I see it as 4/4. A really good score. Fantastic really.
M3 and a RSS reader? I can wait for a finished and polished product. I want features built with the quality Vivaldi is known for.
HP Envy m7 Notebook, i7-45OU Processor, Win10x64 bit, Vivaldi Stable and Snapshot (Standalone)
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@Para-Noid said in The 4-year challenge:
@AnrDaemon Normally I'd keep my mouth shut but you seem to be misleading yourself. Items in quotes are just that, quotes.
Quote..."The most customizable browser out there (install and tweak away)." Oh yeah. Vivaldi is just that.
Quote..."The browser that does not track you (our business is building the browser, not how you use it)." Very true.
Quote..."The browser with the most amazing community (350 000 strong to be more precise)."
Your own reply and I quote..."Does that help me browse internet? No. Irrelevant." The community as a whole does indeed help you browse better. So this point is very relevant.Quote..."The browser that reflects what our users want (and not the agenda of investors pushing for profit)." Vivaldi very much does reflect the wants of their users. That said, your own reply and I quote word for word..."Except two most demanded features, two icons of security that Opera 12 offered to their users, are yet to be implemented." If you are implying M3 and a RSS reader, you're correct. However, Vivaldi is working on them. "Two icons of security" (?) I have no idea what you are talking about.
Quote..."1/4. Not the best score." Honestly, I see it as 4/4. A really good score. Fantastic really.
M3 and a RSS reader? I can wait for a finished and polished product. I want features built with the quality Vivaldi is known for.
It is true that Vivaldi in some tests is not the fastest, but in my opinion this is not what really matters, if one or another browser is 1/10 sec faster, that in practice is not important, if on the other hand It does not offer me the functionality of Vivaldi.
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Had just switched to Chrome back in 2014 from Firefox due to some unusual issues. Otherwise I'd have been on Firefox until I started using Vivaldi a couple months back. -
Hello.
I remember I change Opera with Vivaldi in the beginning. But Vivaldi didn't work well yet. I tried it a few more times through the years and now I hope to stop looking for "my" browser.
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@nstoyanov73 Hi! Have you tried the latest stable version? The stable version is very stable and is what many users well....use. The snapshot version may have some bugs to be ironed out. For the most part snapshots are reasonably stable.
https://vivaldi.com/ (The bottom of the page has download links for Windows, Mac and Linux)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/ (Has blog posts about snapshots) -
4 years ago: Firefox, Opera 12 and Vivaldi
Now: Vivaldi and occasionally FF to use some of the plugins.
