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Old 27th January 2015
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Default Opera founder unveils feature-rich Vivaldi power browser

From https://gigaom.com/2015/01/27/opera-...power-browser/

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Almost two years ago, the Norwegian browser firm Opera ripped out the guts of its product and adopted the more standard WebKit and Chromium technologies, essentially making it more like rivals Chrome and Safari. But it wasn’t just Opera’s innards that changed; the browser also became more streamlined and perhaps less… geeky.

Many Opera fans were deeply displeased at the loss of what they saw as key differentiating functionality. So now Jon von Tetzchner, the man who founded Opera and who would probably never have allowed those drastic feature changes, is back to serve this hard core with a new browser called Vivaldi.

Vivaldi doesn’t mark a return to Opera’s old internals – it uses Chromium as a base and has a user interface that is itself unusually built using web technologies – but it does bring back features such as tab stacking, an advanced bookmark manager, keyboard shortcuts and the ability to start with multiple session windows.
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I was test-driving Vivaldi today on the Mac, and it is quite nice, and very fast. It will be interesting to watch this one develop.
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I am sure I speak for many former Opera users. There is no Opera without Presto engine. RIP the best web browser ever created.

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Tried it yesterday as well. It's kinda pretty, can't deny that, but since it uses Chromium as its backbone, I don't really see the point of this effort. No really distinguishing usability features so far. Oh well..
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