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31 years ago, Geir Ivarsøy and I started working on the Opera browser. A year later we founded Opera Software.
At Opera we wrote all our own code from scratch.
In 2011 I left Opera due to disagreement with investors about the direction Opera was heading.
Two years later, I co-founded Vivaldi to build a browser for you.
So I have been building browsers for 31 years. I think I know what it takes to build a browser.
Our Vivaldi team is for the most part in Norway and Iceland with a few people distributed around Europe and a couple of business people in the US.
Vivaldi is available for your computer and your phone, unless you have a very specific setup. Vivaldi might even be available for your car as well.
We go out of our way to provide you with a browser that matches your needs. I hope you like it.
𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝕬𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖙 @HalleAndert@vivaldi.net@jon My story is that in the early 2000's I was very torn between Internet Explorer, #Firefox and #Opera. I was constantly trying out new browsers.
Opera, however, was the browser that offered the most extensive options for customizing the browser to your own needs, at that time without any interface for add-ons. And that with strong competition like Firefox, which offered an interface for add-ons.
When the big change came after version 12 of the Opera browser, I had to take the difficult path, as there was no real alternative. I don't like to think back to that time.
When Vivaldi then developed a new browser under the direction of Jon von Tetzchner with many former Opera Software employees, I immediately realized that something really big was going to happen and that there would finally be a great alternative on the browser market again.
Without further ado, I have been using Vivaldi every day since the first technical preview (TP1) and would never want to use any other browser again. Having followed the development of Vivaldi since the (official) beginning, it's like watching a child grow up.
Vivaldi is my constant companion, both privately and professionally. Especially in the professional environment, Vivaldi offers me great opportunities to optimize my #workflow.
thats my story ... but i beg Mv2 to stay ... this might be again the point to reevaluate...