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

[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]

Taken from the WayBackMachine

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!

[DesertOutlaw]

When the Vivi guys left Opera back then, something seem to happened to Opera, it just was not the same. So I dowloaded the beta version of Vivaldi, was impressed, and have upgraded it to stable versions ever since.

The Vivaldi browser Is my default on my Linux Mint computers and android phones; Simply works. Importing passwords remains a little difficult but the effort is worth it.

My backup and alternative browser for my computers is an open source fork of Firefox called Librewolf which works better, can actually be cleaned, pre-installed addons can be removed, and has much more privacy unlike Firefox. Lacks some features of Vivaldi but its still an excecllent browser.

Unfortuately, there is no LibreWolf app for phones otherwise it would be my backup and alternative to Vivaldi. Therefore, Vivaldi is the only browser on my phone.

BTW, the clear history feature in the app clears the history of any visits to playstores such as F-Droid and the Google.