The 4-year challenge

[jonmc]

OMG! 4 years gone by! We are celebrating Vivaldi’s 4th anniversary next weekend. And we have a challenge for you. Well, it’s not what you are thinking! We aren’t interested in your wrinkles! 

Click here to see the full blog post

[OlgaA]

[jonmc]

[varsha]

Way to go Vivaldi! Congratulations!
Its been Vivaldi for me since 2015. Will never ever go back to Chrome. Its tagline also says now "Don't be a browser"!

[ra-mon]

Before Vivaldi, i used Opera and nothing else !

Thanks to Jon and the various teams !

[Komposten]

My old Chr-Opera installation was lost when I formatted my PC a few months ago. Found an old screenshot from 2014, though (unfortunately not from the speed dial page). ^^

[zakius]

it's been 4 years already? uhh, kinda scary that we are still at the same point: beautiful manifesto and a piece of software that still is far from production ready
but it will probably get there before we hit 10 years, right?

in 4 years I moved from Fire to Water for obvious reasons, and just a bit earlier I moved back from Opera to Fire due to performance issues

[luetage]

[cynical13]

Then - Opera, Firefox, Seamonkey
Now - Opera, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave

I'm very indecisive and still trying to find the sweet spot (same browser, synced across devices, with features I want).

[srdgrb]

Have been using IE first, than opera from 3.62 upward, and last year more and more vivaldi. you only need a good enough mobile browser with sync before i can drop all others

[Hadden89]

mmh.. I'm bad with dates.

• IE 3 (omg) > IE6
• Mozilla Suite 1.0 > 1.4
• A bit of old Opera (Probably 6, 9 and 10)
• Firefox 0.8 > 2.0 (I used FF for years but gecko became slow, sluggish and affected by UX madness).
• An year of Maxthon and a bit of Lunascape.
• Chrome until around 50? (Blink is a good engine, after all, its stock UI isn't).
• Vivaldi 1.0 Beta > Vivaldi Snapshot RC.

Sometimes I also test Brave and (chr)opera. But rarely opened, as the latest FF which is still there.

[rseiler]

Opera 12 as the main browser until late 2016, when Vivaldi felt ready.

[milamber]

My Browser history:
Started with Netscape Navigator 6 or 7
Short time with Firefox
Opera from 5.x to 12.16 (still using 12.16 Mail client)
Now I am quite happy with Vivaldi (snapshot) on Linux

Thank You very much for your efforts

[Stardust]

Then - Opera (classic)
Now - Firefox (~50%), Vivaldi (~50%)

[GT500]

4 years ago:

Today:

[Folgore101]

Internet Explorer 4;
Netscape Communicator from 4.5 to 4.7;
Opera from 6.0 to 12.18 (still using M2);
Vivaldi from TP1 to Vivaldi 2.3.1430.4.

From 2013 to 2015 i tried various browsers including Firefox, Opera Blink, Iron, Otter but after a few minutes i was back to the real Opera.

In 2015 a love was born, the only one able to replace Opera 12.

[OlgaA]

@Gwen-Dragon Hehe, I should've picked a different filter on my phone

[OlgaA]

@srdgrb We hear you!

[lamarca]

Ɵpera Presto until Dec 2013 >> Epiphany >> Iceweasel due to DFSG and trademak
Finally Vivaldi Browser (Technical Preview), which had has an envelope icon at the Web Panel.

Edited.

[Ornorm]

2015 (was a huge fan... but saw my disappointment grow more and more) :

2019 (I'm a huge fan... but saw my satisfaction grow more and more) :