Blast from the past - "Ex-Opera CEO composes Vivaldi, a new Web browser"

[Pathduck]

The first I read about Vivaldi was the Digi article:
https://www.digi.no/artikler/smeller-til-med-ny-norsk-nettleser/289335

I immediately downloaded it of course, very excited

But like others, I realised it was still very early days, and I wasn't quite ready to give up Firefox just yet. I think I started using it as default browser around 2.0 or 2.1. Custom hotkeys, spatial navigation, web panels. After that there was no going back.

[Thot]

I always looked for a Browser, that really acts and behaves like a Browser, something like an Old-Style-Browser in the olde days, but a new one, with new techniques. I was never satisfied with the existing browsers, even since they were slimmed down more and more. Not to say, that they though had new techniques, but those were made for the big tech, not for the user.
Finally, after a long search, I found Vivaldi in the www, and was so happy that it came into the offing from olde Opera-Software.

[AltCode]

I learned about Vivaldi between the release of the third and the fourth technical previews. I didn't know much about browsers or browser engines then, but I was curious about the subject, so I searched for "chrome like browsers" through Google.

Vivaldi was listed among the pages I found with that search and it immediately caught my eye; I just loved how the UI would change its color based on the web page you were in! I did not leave it installed however. The beta phase was when I began to use it more and more. 1.0 was probably when it did become my default browser.

[fjc1029]

Good article, thank you for sharing this Jane. I first learned about Vivaldi from DuckDuckGo when they announced their tracking being used in Vivaldi browser. Since then I've use V. more than DDG ...

[ingolftopf]

Really so long ago??
Wasn't it just... the day before yesterday?

[ingolftopf]

I also think I read it in the old 'Opera Info Forum German'.
But I'm not sure if the forum still existed at that time.
@DOCTORG should know better, she was a moderator there.

Wasn't the first version released on 02.07.2013, as beta, beta?
You had to 'queue' to get it
Installed it around that time anyway.

[ingolftopf]

In keeping with the beautiful 'Vivaldi Day', my good old ASUS V1Sseries laptop that I loaded this version on is having problems, the screen won't turn on.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/83281/in-keeping-with-the-beautiful-vivaldi-day-my-good-old-asus-v1sseries-laptop-is-having-problems

[Aaron]

@jane-n said in Blast from the past - "Ex-Opera CEO composes Vivaldi, a new Web browser":

Raise your hand

from first snapshot,
past every snapshot,
continue next snapshot...

[Ayespy]

@jane-n I've been using Vivaldi since the first day of the first Technical Preview, and have never stopped or paused. I read of it on the Opera forums and immediately found it and installed it. I didn't immediately uninstall Opera from my machines, as I had been using it for about twenty years and thought it would make a useful occasional reference point.

I can't use a browser that doesn't do what I need Vivaldi to do. So until something more capable, configurable and trustworthy with a built-in email client comes along, here I am and here I will stay.

Here's my first post on the Forums, less than an hour after I downloaded the browser:

[ingolftopf]

@Ayespy
Very nice that you still have this

Was this before 2015?

Oh, sorry just see is from 2015.

[Catweazle]

For me only 7 Years, enjoying every day in this time.

[ugly]

@Ayespy said in Blast from the past - "Ex-Opera CEO composes Vivaldi, a new Web browser":

@jane-n I've been using Vivaldi since the first day of the first Technical Preview, and have never stopped or paused. I read of it on the Opera forums and immediately found it and installed it. I didn't immediately uninstall Opera from my machines, as I had been using it for about twenty years and thought it would make a useful occasional reference point.

Same here. Heard about it on the Opera forum and started testing it out since the first Tech preview. I know I didn't switch over from Opera right away. I was using them both in parallel for a while, but mostly just testing and poking around with Vivaldi.

I can't remember anymore at what point I made the switchover. I think it had to be when a particular feature was implemented. Because I don't remember having stability issues even in the early releases. If I had to guess, it would probably have been something like mouse gestures or rocker gestures.

If I remember correctly, vivaldi.net was made available first as a community, and it wasn't confirmed that there would be a browser. And people were speculating that it would happen, and then started confirming things by looking at trademark filings.

[Hadden89]

First post @ Snapshot 1.0.422.8 (which was translated quite fine)
First vivaldi probably was @ 1.0.2xx build

[Ayespy]

@ugly I rather wish I had found the Vivaldi community when Jon first established it in 2013. That would have been fun. Still, finding it along with the browser was also fun.

[WildEnte]

@jane-n my profile says that I joined the Vivaldi community on Jan 25, 2014, 8:11 PM, not sure how many signed up before me

My first post was about mail, of course https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/173/is-mail-ancient-history/21?_=1674898216978 and I almost certainly tested the first Technical preview, although I probably started using Vivaldi as my primary browser later. I don't even recall what I used in the dark ages between the demise of Opera 12 and my transition to Vivaldi. But only about a year ago I let go of Opera Mail when @gmg and team had ironed out the most annoying bugs.

Time flies when you're having fun!

[luetage]

@WildEnte About 2120 ☛

[Zalex108]

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Here,
4 FEB 2015 Singed up
But the Forum reading and watching about the Development evolution since before

Meanwhile,
Using Opera Mail and Blink til its 70/80 version.

On Opera's Forum, @sgunhouse and @burnout426 were giving some hints about Vivaldi's evolution and "main differences".

Speed vs Features

For a While, using Vivaldi and Opera altogether and Opera on Mobile til Vivaldi's version arrived.

Then again had to keep Opera since an easy workaround to bckp open Mobile Tabs on Desktop.

Since the use of Vivaldi at Desktop, to change the Browser on each device felt uncomfortable so, started with V full time and rely on Sync and Open All on , small annoyance with hibernation vs fully featured and cross device support.

Still prefer Opera's Speed dial looking
But just that | And Portable version shhh |

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May the Double 4th Be with You

[TalGarik]

I do not remember where I read about Vivaldi, but the fact that I have been here since January 27 2015 makes me think that I read about it in Opera forums - 8 years ago I was so happy about this new browser, it became my default from that day, who would have thought that 8 years later Opera would have been my default again?
And I loved Vivaldi mail, even made it my default for a while.
When the iOS version will be out I will give Vivaldi a chance, but the fact that it has not been released to celebrate the birthday makes me think that it is far from being ready even for Testflight

[MoonDawg]

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Created Monday, June 15, 2015 at 8:33 PM

I was never hot for Tony. You might say he burned himself out then rekindled himself.
Some loved him. I'm warming up to him now. It takes awhile.

My Favs

[jane.n]

It's so nice to read all your memories. Thanks for sharing!