Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @06:34AM from the sink-within-a-sink dept.

New submitter cdysthe writes 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. The project's front page links to downloads of a technical preview, available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Firefox users who likewise prefer a browser with more rather than fewer features (but otherwise want to stick with Firefox) might also consider SeaMonkey, which bundles not just a browser but email, newsgroup client and feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools.

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Really good news! by megahurts.gr · 2015-01-27 06:45 · Score: 3, Insightful

Yep, Opera used to be the best, until they destroyed it. When they did, I stopped using it. Now this is really good news!

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Re:"vivaldi" by quax · 2015-01-27 07:25 · Score: 3, Insightful

So let me get this straight, you seriously don't know who Vivaldi was, and you think everybody else is as proudly ignorant as you are.
Obviously the name works perfectly. This browser is not for you.