![]() ![]() Personally, I don't care and I don't care that they don't care that I don't care. If Vivaldi ever gets ported to FreeBSD (which I doubt), yay! Good for ! Congrats! Yada yada yada. For me, their status as open-source is a guarantee that history won't repeat itself because there will always be someone who can carry on from where it was left. There are tons of open-source browsers based on WebKit or Chromium/Blink or both. I don't trust them any more than I trust Opera ASA today. von Tetzchner's opinion on all this, it's not enough for me, I'm not convinced, and none of this makes Vivaldi Tech the "good guys". Browse your way with a fully customisable browser packed with advanced features. Vivaldi Technologies AS is a Norwegian software development company, most known for its creation of the Vivaldi Browser.Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, it was founded in 2013 by Jon von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita. Things just didn't really go the way we wanted them to, confusion ensued and the rest is history. 2 400 000+ Active users 1 500 000+ Community members 0 Outside investors Download the latest version of the Vivaldi browser for Windows, Mac or Linux. A corporation gotta be profitable one way or another and apparently it wasn't, so change was necessary. They ended up not caring much what users thought about the annoying bugs that accumulated over time, or about moving to another layout engine, and redesigning the entire interface, and removing many pioneering features that made it what it was, and promising these would be reintroduced in due time, and breaking these promises time and again, etc. Despite what many of its detractors used to say, it was actually the best, for me and many others.īut business being business (and we all know how nice the browser business always was/is), this was bound to end (badly). And they did, first as an adware then as a freeware. Like many others for the better part of the last decade, I trusted one company to provide us with a great browser. Features Vivaldi 1.0.228.3 displaying the Wikipedia homepage in its 'Chromeless UI' mode Vivaldi has a minimalistic user interface with basic icons and fonts, and, optionally, a colour scheme that changes based on the background and design of the web page being visited. If you are please drop us a line via guys, I float that idea, wouldn't it be nice having a modern and fully-featured web browser like Vivaldi in our userland ? Not at the moment, we've chatting with some FreeBSD users if they are interested in supporting Vivaldi for that distro. I run GhostBSD (which is made on top of FreeBSD) and want to run Vivaldi also, is it possible ?" "Guys from Vivaldi, does Vivaldi support its use on BSD systems ? In G+ official Vivaldi page I wrote the following to the guys: Look, I've been having some (serious) trouble w/ Chromium, it crashes its ass off, it's impossible having Chromium for workstation, as I have already discussed that issue (in google plus communities) and some guys warned this buggy chromium "feature" has no guarantee to have an end I bumped into a (maybe) workaroud for this few-options-when-it-comes-to-webbrowsers headache. Hey guys, first of all I am pretty novice here so feel free to warn me I am talking shit, I just want to "get involved" with FreeBSD.
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