At @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net , we make browsers. Powerful browsers, with more functionality than others, but still browsers.
What we are not is:
- An OS company.
- A search company.
- An ad company.
- An AI company.
None of our major competitors can really say the same. We focus on doing one thing really well.
If you like that, give us a try! If you are already with us, please share with your friends!
#Vivaldi #Windows #Mac #Linux #Android #Ios #AI
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net @jon@vivaldi.net is it based on chromium?
@my_actual_brain@fosstodon.org @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
It is.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net A proprietary front end on top of chromium? Thanks but no thanks.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net @PeterSommerlad@mastodon.social nice to know what you don‘t do to earn money but what do you do to keep the lights on? 🤔
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net those are grear points. The opposite of what Mozilla became today - ad company with builtin ad tracking in firefox. The worst part is that Vivaldi is based on chromium. Plus mv2 extensions situation.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Why isn’t it on OpenBSD yet?
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Besides a few annoying UX quirks, I love Vivaldi!
@jon@vivaldi.net Also not a crypto company: https://vivaldi.com/blog/why-vivaldi-will-never-create-thinkcoin/
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net I’m going to be that guy and say a lot of them were not any of that either, until somebody dangled $ in front of them. I have no trust in any browser vendor these days, and that is a disappointing situation.
@pauby@fosstodon.org @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
How about giving us a try?
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net chop off some startup time perhaps
@Wingless@mstdn.social @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
Unlike some of our competitors, Vivaldi is only started when you start it yourself.
We will continue to work on speeding things up as much as we can.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net please keep on doing what you’re doing. #Vivaldi rocks! Workspaces is a killer feature that keeps my ridiculous collection of open tabs on my work machine manageable.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net How are you funded? Are you 501c3?
@indutny@fosstodon.org @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
We have no external funding. Every employee owns shares in the company.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net that’s so awesome, thank you for sharing!
Having no external funding is great, but you still have to make profit in order to support the development of the browser. It looks like there are no paid features at the moment, and the last article on business model was: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/ . Are you still funded by Partner deals?
@indutny@fosstodon.org @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
Yes, we are still funded in the same way as before. We have also opened up for people to donate.
@jon@vivaldi.net
And based in Norway (EU, GDPR). Don’t think other browser companies can say that either.
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net@hobs@mstdn.social @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
Indeed.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
Hopefully you’ll be independent for years to come.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net your grouping of fanes is the best. Now you visit my feed, can you tell me how you do make money?
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net One thing that would make me switch immediately would be, if tab closing meant: delete everything, localstorage, cookies, indexdDB. Except for sites explicitly configured not to do this.
Duckduckgo has the fire button, but this decouples closing from deleting the data in a stupid way.
Firefox has delete on exit, which is OK on the desktop, but who closes an app, ever, actively?
Firefox is severely restricted on Apple stuff by their policies. Same for Vivaldi?
