Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser
"Almost two years ago, the Norwegian browser firm Opera ripped out the guts of its product and adopted the more standard WebKit and Chromium technologies, essentially making it more like rivals Chrome and Safari. But it wasn't just Opera's innards that changed; the browser also became more streamlined and perhaps less geeky. Many Opera fans were deeply displeased at the loss of what they saw as key differentiating functionality. So now Jon von Tetzchner, the man who founded Opera and who would probably never have allowed those drastic feature changes, is back to serve this hard core with a new browser called Vivaldi." -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/01/27/1733259 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Almost two years ago, the Norwegian browser firm Opera ripped out the guts of its product and adopted the more standard WebKit and Chromium technologies, essentially making it more like rivals Chrome and Safari. But it wasn't just Opera's innards that changed; the browser also became more streamlined and perhaps less geeky. Many Opera fans were deeply displeased at the loss of what they saw as key differentiating functionality. So now Jon von Tetzchner, the man who founded Opera and who would probably never have allowed those drastic feature changes, is back to serve this hard core with a new browser called Vivaldi."
I gave the browser a spin and looks quite nice. Once they got extension support and an ad-blocker available, I might use it on a daily basis... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:37:29AM +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
differentiating functionality. So now Jon von Tetzchner, the man who founded Opera and who would probably never have allowed those drastic feature changes, is back to serve this hard core with a new browser called Vivaldi."
I gave the browser a spin and looks quite nice. Once they got extension support and an ad-blocker available, I might use it on a daily basis...
Isn't Opera (and presumably this new Vivaldi too) a proxying browser? That is, it routes all traffic through Opera's own proxies? If so, it is a massive privacy leak and I wouldn't go anywhere near it. Cheers Michael.
differentiating functionality. So now Jon von Tetzchner, the man who founded Opera and who would probably never have allowed those drastic feature changes, is back to serve this hard core with a new browser called Vivaldi."
I gave the browser a spin and looks quite nice. Once they got extension support and an ad-blocker available, I might use it on a daily basis...
Isn't Opera (and presumably this new Vivaldi too) a proxying browser? That is, it routes all traffic through Opera's own proxies?
Not if you turn off "Opera Turbo".
If so, it is a massive privacy leak and I wouldn't go anywhere near it.
Doesn't seem to do proxying like Opera. Visiting www.whatsmyip.org still shows my university IP address. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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