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🇩🇪 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝕬𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖙<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jon</a> My story is that in the early 2000's I was very torn between Internet Explorer, <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Opera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Opera</a>. 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 <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/workflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workflow</a>.<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/operasoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#operasoftware</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/opera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opera</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#browser</a>

brawnybunkbedbuddyi wonder, does <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/operasoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#operasoftware</a> still owns rights to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/presto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#presto</a> engine? 🤔

OblomovMicrosoft had reasons for this: at first it was because they didn't “get” the Internet, later on it was because it's the only way they had to (attempt to) control it. They did all they could to cripple it: remember when <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/OperaSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OperaSoftware</a> released a “Bork” edition of their of the <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/OperaBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OperaBrowser</a> in response to <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> serving them intentionally broken CSS? <a href="https://press.opera.com/2003/02/14/opera-releases-bork-edition/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://press.opera.com/2003/02/14/opera-releases-bork-edition/</a> Now imagine what the Internet would have been like if Opera, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mozilla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mozilla</a> and few others hadn't held their ground.

OblomovI don't think people appreciate the role that <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/OperaSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OperaSoftware</a> played in fostering the <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/OpenWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenWeb</a> and <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieWeb</a> during the first <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/browserWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#browserWar</a> (when the <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/OperaBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OperaBrowser</a> was still built on their proprietary <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/Presto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Presto</a> engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/WebKit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebKit</a>/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.

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