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jon

@jon@vivaldi.net

I have been working with Web technologies since 1992. I have co-founded two browser companies, Opera Software and Vivaldi Technologies. I was CEO at Opera and I am CEO at Vivaldi.

I am a strong proponent of open standards. I believe in building feature rich products that can be adapted to the needs of users without collecting information about usage. I believe no company has the right to profile their users.

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jon, to Vivaldi
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If you used M2 in Opera and enjoyed it, you really should be using Vivaldi Mail (M3).

If you have never used M2 or M3, maybe it is time to give it a try?

https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/

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@jon Presto was so good, the Opera Mail client was also the fastest to sync accounts with 500k emails, etc.

Was there a real architectural reason for dropping Presto or was it just the cost of maintaining your own browser engine?

jon,
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@feld

Opera dropped Presto after I left. They did that as the management and board were clueless, if you ask me. They did not see the value in having the best browser engine at that time, including the one that would run on the least hardware.

We did have issues with being blocked by some sites, the most important being sites made by Google and Microsoft, so I guess that was their rationale for doing it.

jon,
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@feld

We spent a lot of time on the caching mechanism. It did get more difficult with sites that would insist on reloading, mostly to show new ads, but we got it working. We kept ready formatted instances of the pages in memory and we did it in a compact manner.

Our view was always that our code should run on old hardware and on terrible networks. Sadly that is not how other browser cores are built.

That being said, some work has been done on functionality like this in Chromium by some old Opera people now working at Google.

jon, (edited ) to Vivaldi
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I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?

Feel free to share your story!

jon,
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@Geniusak , I guess the focus is on my time there, but either way you are using a browser from a company I founded. I just have nothing to do with what Opera is doing now.

jon,
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@seppi_hofer

Time to try Vivaldi then?

jon,
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@mima

I would say so.

jon,
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Obviously, if you are one of those that has not tried Vivaldi yet, why not give it a try?

https://vivaldi.com

jon,
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@zaivala

Did you try Vivaldi?

jon,
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@nick @HalleAndert @ramon @WildEnte

There was plenty of new stuff for every release.

jon,
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@zaivala

We all make our choices. I am biased, but I believe Vivaldi can be a great option for you as well. There are things to learn, but that is because we have more to offer.

I also believe we can play an important role with regards to Chromium as we grow.

In any case, good luck with your choice.

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@clacke

Of course I did. 😀

The Linköping office was very important. We started with a handful of people and we grew to a bout 100 in that office. It was a purely technical office and had a lot of really talented developers.

Linköping is a really nice town.

I spent a lot of time visiting all our offices around the world as well as have user meetups in different parts of the world. We had at most 15 offices in 12 countries.

jon, to Vivaldi
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New @Vivaldi release. Plenty of good stuff in here. The Feed Reader got special attention this time.

When you go to a page that provides a feed, you can click the feed reader icon in the address bar to follow it.

You can follow news sites and blogs, but did you know that you can follow Youtube channels as well?

With this update, you can now follow subreddits and users on Reddit, as well as repository releases and commits on GitHub.

Enjoy!

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-7/

jon,
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@grishka @Vivaldi

Give it a try. You just might like it. Combine it with the Mail client as well. It is a powerful combo.

Hmm. on the traces. Good question. They do not belong there.

jon, to Vivaldi
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This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.

Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.

Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.

If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!

If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!

@Vivaldi

jon,
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@enmodo @Vivaldi

Vivaldi is not Opera and Vivaldi is a Norwegian company, so you can recommend Vivaldi.

Opera was sold to a Chinese consortium after I left.

jon,
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@cherold @Vivaldi

Likely you will find out that with Vivaldi you can reduce the number of extensions you use.

jon,
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@UserMicha @Vivaldi

Thank you for your kind words and support. It means a lot to me.

Although it was just me and Geir in the beginning, we gradually grew as a team. By the time I left, we had a team of 750, with more than half being developers. My tasks gradually moved from developing to running the company, but I have always focused a lot on the development, discussing both design and development details with the team.

With regards to Opera Unite, I still think there is nothing like, so I do not think we were late. On the other hand, the management at Opera, after I left, did not see the value of having a Web standards based, distributed

jon,
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@MichaelBishop @Vivaldi

Have a look at :

https://vivaldi.com

We are in a different league when it comes to functionality and customization, but do not take my word for it. Give it a try.

jon, (edited ) to Vivaldi
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Vivaldi has a lot of features. Which of these features are you using?

jon,
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So I fixed a typo, but it reset the survey.

jon, to Vivaldi
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I know a lot of you use @Vivaldi and would like to help us grow. Here are a few things you can do to help us grow. Thank you for your support!

  1. Recommend @Vivaldi to your friends. Help them install and setup. Show them the features you think they would most like.

  2. Follow @Vivaldi here and on other social networks you frequent.

  3. Boost articles by @Vivaldi which have a broader appeal here and on other social networks.

  4. Invite your friends to join Vivaldi Social.

Have a great day!

#Vivaldi

jon,
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@AAKL @Vivaldi

Your choice of browser is a personal one. For me it is the feature set that matters, but also values. Maybe you want to read these?

https://vivaldi.com/features/

https://vivaldi.com/blog/why-vivaldi-will-never-create-thinkcoin/

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you/

https://vivaldi.com/blog/its-time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising/

#Vivaldi #browser #Windows #Mac #Linux

jon,
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@AAKL @ppb1701 @Vivaldi

Probably are other browsers that are better than us on handling fingerprinting.

On the other hand we do not collect usage data at all, unlike most everyone else. We do count our users and some want to call that telemetry, but it is not. We just count our users.

jon, to Vivaldi
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In case you did not see our take on Crypto:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/why-vivaldi-will-never-create-thinkcoin/

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