Vivaldi Co-Founder: Competing with Google Isn’t Scary When You’ve Done It Before

My gripes with Vivaldi: still a Chromium-based browser (like the new Opera), and still no e-mail client.

Compare this to previous iterations of Opera (pre-12), which featured a custom, fast rendering engine, and built-in features ranging from mail client, IRC client, and torrent client to a web server and a file-sharing platform![1]

Sadly, Vivaldi is still a shadow of what Opera used to be. I'm still hopeful, but they simply don't have an attractive product yet. I'll think again when the mail client is there, it was a killer feature.

I've switched to FF Quantum, and not switching to anything else any time soon. For me, the killer feature is the new fast engine -- and the reader view, which is the only way I can tolerate about half the websites out there.

With reader view and integrations such as Pocket and full-page screenshot directly from the UI, Firefox seems to be the only browser innovating on UX-out-of-the-box these days. (Edge had introduced some neat things, and I tried it for a while, but it just falls short for me).

Meanwhile, Chrome is turning into an interesting OS that just needs a good web browser.

[1]https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3468/turn-your-computer-into...