von Tetzchner's Opera was really great but began to go downhill after version 12.17, imho.
It was based on the Presto engine which still belongs to Opera ASA, so Vivaldi uses the Chromium engine.
I shall follow it closely because von Tetzchner did so well with early Opera.
He just seems to know how to build a good browser, and he does not have a group of investors to contend with now.
In the interview it mentions that Vivaldi has only one investor.
Oic, dang... So, it's (just) another Chromium build; argh. Can't stand it, because it follows the (modern) trend of integration... Exactly the reason why Firefox is going down the hill, fast (4 the past, many, versions).
^^ You know how back-in-the-day, for example, the only way to insure a safe database was to keep the Internet and the Intranet completely separate… The golden rule (as, in: disconnected, usually physically). These days, everything is integrated - putting faith and trust into someone else’s hands, amazingly. Privacy and Terms agreements grow ever larger, because it’s funny to expect such software to be (even remotely, lol) secure and, yet, it seems to be the way forward (I can’t understand it, whatever ).
In any case, shame about the engine; might give it a whirl, still - tnx!! =)
Well, wait a minute. I double checked, it may NOT be based on chromium. Am still looking now.
Don't know enough about it say definitively, but Hazelnut would.
Edit: It says here that Vivaldi is based on Blink and Chromium, but i don't care, I shall stay with it.
http://www.cnet.com/news/ex-opera-ceo-launches-new-browser-vivaldi/