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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.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

jon, to windows
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The status bar in @Vivaldi is a treasure trove. Here are a few things you should have a look at!

  1. The page capture function is very useful. You can capture any part of Vivaldi or you can capture the whole page. I use this a lot.

  2. The image and animation toggle allows you to turn off image loading and reduce animations.

  3. The page tiling button is for tiling pages. The easiest is to start with a tab stack and then tile it.

  4. The page actions button lists a set of page actions you can use to change how the page looks. Examples include various filters and transformations.

  5. The zoom function is easily accessible in Vivaldi and unlike other browsers, we zoom the current tab by default, instead of the domain, meaning it is easy to change the zoom on all pages in a tab for a while.

  6. The clock is useful for seeing the time, but it also has a nice timer.

This is all in the right corner. In the left corner you find the pause button...

jon, to ai
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You may or may not like AI, but I think we can all agree that AI should not be integrated into your browser or OS.

We cannot have a situation where what you are doing on your computer, suddenly is feeding into some AI.

w7voa, to random
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Unraveling Threads: A deja vu experience from Twitter looms. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/unraveling-threads?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

jon,
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@w7voa °

IMHO Mastodon and the Fediverse in general is the solution. It is the only solution that is not tied to a single company or individual. It is based on open standards, which means there will be new solutions over time and we will be seeing further improvements moving forward.

It is important that all of us do what we can to make this a success. I really think media companies should all join with their own servers. I also believe tech companies should joins as well. We can all contribute to making this the place it can be for everyone.

I have said before the Fediverse reminds me of the early days of the Web and I do not say things like that lightly.

jon, to random
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It is now 9 years since we started sponsoring my local club in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland, called Grótta.

Below is the article I wrote about it some years ago.

Grótta now has two former players playing with the Icelandic national team, and many more playing with national youth teams.

The team now plays in the 2nd division right now, both the men and female teams.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-sponsors-football-in-iceland/

kirby, to random

a list of mainstream web browsers according to google

firefox -- mozilla sucks
chrome -- google sucks
brave -- a bit better than most but they've made a few questionable choices in the past
edge -- microsoft.... is microsoft they're on their own league
safari -- apple sucks and it isn't even usable beyond macos
tor browser -- rare case where the people behind it are really cool, so maybe you could consider using, only drawback is tor
opera -- 我把一切都寄给中国共产党
vivaldi -- pretty sure also chinese company
avast web browser -- how is this even on here, avast sucks

jon,
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@jofazepa @kirby @lamp @Vivaldi

Vivaldi is not Chinese. We are a Norwegian company, with offices in Norway, Iceland and the US. Our web servers are based in Iceland.

I think if you want to claim a company is doing something bad, you should do some research.

jon, to Vivaldi
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We at @Vivaldi continue to be the only browser company all in on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

We have made our own instance, Vivaldi Social. Any user that has a Vivaldi account for sync or other services, can easily enable a presence on Vivaldi Social.

We have integrated Mastodon as a Web panel into Vivaldi.

We include links to Vivaldi Social into Vivaldi.

We also work on integrating our blogs and forums into the Fediverse.

We hope others will follow. Mozilla has talked a lot and we hope they will join us fully soon.

jon,
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@gisiger @Vivaldi

Our blogs are in fact federated. Have a look at this one:

https://social.vivaldi.net/@tips@tips.vivaldi.net

jon, to edge
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Is the new ? Or the new or the new ?

Pushing products on people that do not want them is not a good thing.

Luckily the EU has made it possible to remove Edge and Onedrive. I hope they will add Copilot soon.

IMHO there should be a clear line between what is on the computer and what is on the cloud, unless I opt-in otherwise for things like backup.

Similarly there should be a clear line when it comes to . It must be clear when my data is local and when it is used for AI. What I do locally on my computer should not feed AI.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-forms-new-ai-division-to-push-copilot-to-consumers

jon, to fediverse
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I have been waiting for this moment. Every public broadcaster should join the and . IMHO, you should set up your own servers, but that is not hard either.

https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon

jon, to Vivaldi
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If you have never tried mouse gestures in @Vivaldi , it is time.

This is a very unique feature. You can do basic moves, such as back and forward, but you can also design your own mouse gestures.

Try it out!

https://vivaldi.com/blog/browse-fast-with-mouse-gestures/

jon, to windows
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One of my favorite @Vivaldi features on computers is single key keyboard shortcuts. This feature is turned off by default, but once enabled, you can perform functions with a single key.

Here are a few shortcuts:

Z - back
X - forward
9 - zoom out 10%
0 - zoom in 10%
6 - reset zoom
WASD - spatial navigation

This is an advanced feature, so only enable if you love using the keyboard!

jon, to Vivaldi
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All the cool cars get @Vivaldi !

The Audi Q6 e-tron is looking good!

https://www.t3.com/news/audi-q6-e-tron-brings-a-radical-new-infotainment-system-and-smart-lighting

jon, to apple
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Attending a workshop on the with and the @EU_Commission

It is quite interesting. I am kind of thinking that a platform should be thankful for developer support, but Apple is making it very clear that all of us should be thankful for the privilege of our apps being allowed on their platform. They have spent so much time making APIs and the like, so they need to be paid for that by application vendors. Seems like they are not making enough from selling phones. They must be struggling.

jon, to iOS
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Vivaldi on iOS also get a significant update. Custom colors and dark mode. Plenty of cool improvements to play with!

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-ios-6-6/

jon, to Cat
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We made this cat video with the Icelandic Consumer Association.

We believe this is of the greatest importance.

https://banspying.org

jon, to Cat
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The real question is... Is your cat spying on you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XLD0QRTbI

https://banspying.org

jon, to random
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Currently sitting in the sofa corner at the new Vivaldi office in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland. Working on my computer, writing this message, while keeping an eye on the view outside. For me this is home.

jon, to random
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The new @Vivaldi office in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland.

jon, to mastodon
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The default number of options in a survey in is 4. I love doing surveys, but I was running into this limit a lot and those answering the survey often complained about their favorite option not being there.

Thus we have decided to extend the number of options to 8 in Vivaldi Social.

Enjoy!

jon, to windows
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Here are the survey result for which email client people are using. There were 511 participants.

  • Vivaldi : 11%
  • Thunderbird : 41%
  • Other : 24%
  • Webmail only : 24%

Good to see so many having switched to @Vivaldi. It is still early days. Also great to see that so many see the importance of using a mail client instead of Webmail only.

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

jon, to Vivaldi
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Major @Vivaldi release today for your computer. There is so much new, that it is hard to summarize even. Enjoy!

https://vivaldi.com/press/vivaldi-improves-mail-search-and-translate-extends-web-panels-with-extension-support/

jon, to random
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All the cool cars have @Vivaldi. 😀

Renault 5 looks really great!

https://www.renault.fr/vehicules-electriques/r5-e-tech-electrique.html

jon, to Vivaldi
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The next @Vivaldi release is looking really good, IMHO.

You have to wait a bit longer, though. 😀

jon, to Vivaldi
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So a rather cool video made by my old company Opera.

The video seems to be about my new company @Vivaldi, though, and the browser we make, not about the one Opera makes now, which is all about Web3 and AI.

For reference, Vivaldi is a Nordic company. I am born in Iceland. I think we can safely say that when it comes to tabs, we got it all. 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWP4a9pkCnI

jon, to web
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This article, written by Tim Berners-Lee, is as good a read today as it was in 2010. Read and learn.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-live-the-web/

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