The Vivaldi Browser 0

I used the Opera browser from version 3, which I think was the first version released to the public, up until they kicked out their founder in their quest for mammon. When I started using it, I was hanging out in an HTML newsgroup because I was working on my first website, and the regulars there had great respect for Opera for its attempts to remain as standards-compliant as possible. (This was in the early days of Microsoft Internet Exploder, when Microsoft was attempting to turn the world wide web into something that worked only in Windows.)

Opera was my go-to browser, email client, and RSS reader for over a decade. Opera invented many features that have since been adapted by other, better-known applications, including tabbed windows and mouse gestures.

When I took a look at the new Opera for Windows a couple of years or so ago, I decided I wanted nothing more to do with it. Many of the features that made me an Opera loyalist were gone, including the integrated email and RSS feeds and the rich granular configurability.

I have since used Seamonkey and Firefox and found them satisfactory, but a bit clunky, and I quite like Seamonkey’s integration of browser, mail client, RSS reader, etc.

Recently, I have been using Vivaldi; the Vivaldi project is led Jon von Tetzchner, the deposed president of Opera. I find Vivaldi nimble and responsive. It still has some growing to do, but, frankly, right now, I’m all in for Vivaldi because my decade or more of using Opera has given me reason to trust the work of Jon von Tetzchner.

If you want to learn more about users’ experiences with Vivaldi, you can read my thread at Linux Questions.