Tyrone

So, here’s my question.  When do we start hawking Vivaldi?  My first inclination was to tell everyone I know about Vivaldi.  Then, however, I realized that if they loaded up one of these “betas” they might see it as no different than other Chrome clones and stay away.  Certainly old Opera users are down with Vivaldi but we can’t assume that non-(old) Opera devotees will share our passion for these first iterations of Vivaldi.  Do we wait for the first official release?  Or do we tell our story now and ask them to get involved?  What’s our best strategy?  

As long as we are asking for things (even when we know they are miles down the road) how about Vivaldi for Android?  Well, yes I admit there are a few things with more priority so this can go on the “way back” burner.  I have dual boot Windows-Ubuntu at home so I want to try Vivaldi on Linux.  I also need to install on my laptop so I have things to do.  Of course, synching would also be nice but I also don’t think that’s a priority.  

As longs as we’re talking Android browsers I might mention Habit Browser.  I usually use Boat Browser on Android but “Habit” has lots of tweaking options. Not exactly what you would call intuitive but, once you get it tweaked, it is nice.  

Do we want to stir up discussion about what browsers people used after Opera (Chrome) arrived and before Vivaldi?  I was not consistent with any browser but I probably used SRWare Iron more than anything else.  

On the side, as time permits, I’m trying to learn Ruby.  As it would be my first programming language this won’t be easy.  But, I’m in no hurry.

Still very excited about Vivaldi and willing to wait for it to blossom.

  

Starting out with Vivaldi I can’t help but ponder how things went when I started out with the”new” Opera.  Perhaps for good reason, the “new” Opera seemed to start out with a huge amount of defensiveness on their part.  I suspect that a good part of that was attributable to people like me missing the “old” Opera and being more than happy to point out what we saw as shortcomings in the “new”.  With Vivaldi I am clearly much more willing to be patient and wait for things to be developed and/or stabilized.  That’s probably because, like seemingly many others, I didn’t find a new browser that I could warm up to.  So, I’m not complaining (not that I won’t in the future however).    Of course some of the off-putting from the Opera transition came from being told that if I didn’t like the new Opera and appreciate its superiority, I was not well informed or a sophisticated user. That didn’t come from Opera directly but it was said loud and clear in the forums.  At any rate, off to greener pastures.  And, I’m NOT expecting Vivaldi to recreate the old Opera.  It had its flaws.  So, I’m just happy to see where this goes.