Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.
Google didn’t kill their business. Opera moved to chromium to save money.
The end user does not give a shit what engine their browser is built on. They care that [a] it has the features they want and [b] works well. Webkit still does not satisfy [a] and neither would running a subset of web standards. Firefox I’m not sure about. That said, running off chromium has worked fine for them so far.
That’s all fine except it turned out that most of Opera users did give a shit. It was a very convenient browser, with much of its convenience connected to the engine. Usability features connected to webpage source viewing and editing in place, caching of page snapshots, being rather fast on most websites ( yes, some crazy shitload of JS could hang or even crash it, but for most of the Web it was faster and used less memory ), various display settings ( like adaptive page width ) to override shitty websites.
Their main product was usability, but it was a somewhat tall building hugely based on features of their browser engine.
Anyway, this doesn’t even matter, Chropera as a browser is something most people don’t even notice. Opera before Chrome was one of the main browsers.
It also had a torrent client, an RSS client, and a few other things, all very convenient.
And yes, Google did kill their business (that shell still possessing the brand isn’t interesting).