Athletics and Other Games, or You Are What You Wear.
Irish National Opera's staging of Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade transfers to London's Linbury ahead of this summer's games,. Some beautiful music, gloriously sung.
I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?
This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.
Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.
Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.
If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!
If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!
Like the most would be #OrganicMaps, #NewPipe and #VLC, with #fdroid as a both yes and no, because the app itself is annoying to use (half of which is probably Android limitations), but I wouldn't want to depend on Google.
@vivaldi Sadly as much as my move from the desktop version of #Chrome to #Vivaldi have been a resounding success, the same cannot be said for Vivaldi mobile.
Sync works really well but unfortunately it renders a lot of pages innacurately in both mobile and desktop modes. I'm on the latest Samsung flip, running the latest update. It's unusable for a lot of sites which means I'll have to find a different daily driver on mobile.
We at @Vivaldi continue to be the only browser company all in on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
We have made our own instance, Vivaldi Social. Any user that has a Vivaldi account for sync or other services, can easily enable a presence on Vivaldi Social.
We have integrated Mastodon as a Web panel into Vivaldi.
We include links to Vivaldi Social into Vivaldi.
We also work on integrating our blogs and forums into the Fediverse.
We hope others will follow. Mozilla has talked a lot and we hope they will join us fully soon.
This is a big story. In a way the idea of a antivirus company or a browser company actively gathering user data for marketing purposes just feels so foreign, but still it is far too normal.
Most of the largest browser companies are also ad companies.
We believe in choice. Thus we are thrilled that there will be a browser choice screen on mobile phones in Europe. It is better when there is choice and competition and luckily there is a fair amount of browsers to choose from at this time.
Microsoft is trying to convince you that you should not try other browsers, that Edge is good enough. They are sadly not the only ones.
IMHO all major OS should provide a browser choice. Clearly Windows should and IMHO MacOS should as well and all iOS based devices, not just phones.
@dangillmor
As long as you have the time to go through about:config and remove every Google API (Firefox would not exist if not for Google paying Mozilla to include this) and disable all built in spyware (in Windows terminology "telemetry") and every adware "experiment". And do so before you plug in the network.
Yes, Firefox allows you to disable most , but it has been shown repeatedly to be the browser that transmits the most data on first launch, to prevent you from turning any spyware off before they get your data. Here Firefox fans usually jump in to say that the leaked data isn't something we should care about, but an actual privacy focused browser wouldn't be capable of this, because it wouldn't have any data to transmit.
I switched from Firefox to #vivaldi many years ago, a browser whose user base cares so much about privacy that there was an outcry when they were caught counting the number of users. The #vivaldi company is still careful not to make that mistake again.
I am thrilled to tell you that @Vivaldi is now becoming available in cars from Ford and Lincoln!
The first one will be the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus.
We continue to lead the way in in-car browsing. Yes, there will be others, but we continue to lead and hopefully set the standard of what you expect from a browser in your car!