Post #1649317

2026-04-16 22:29 UTC

There is no better feeling than the satisfaction of seeing happy users of Vivaldi. There is a reason why I and the rest of the Vivaldi team continue to work hard on building a better browser for all of you! It is not always easy. Building a browser across platforms and devices is not trivial to do. Connecting them all together through sync s not trivial either. Making it work well on small and large screens, using different input methods takes a lot of work as well. Having unlimited flexibility is hard as well. This is the reason why others tend not to do it. It is a lot easier to just say that the way you design it is the right way and the user is wrong. I know there are then things that some of you would like us to do, that we have not done yet. Generally we have it on our list. Running on a different code base is not on our list, though. It is too much work for too little gain. It is better for us to spend resources on improving the one code base we have. The more resources we have, the more we can do. When you tell your friends about Vivaldi, you help us grow and you help us be able to do more. Thanks! Jon.

Replies (6)

@lisp_1@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-16 22:33

@jon You are awesome. Keep it up.

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@Linuxkumpel@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-16 22:33

@jon I’m a happy Vivaldi user. Thank you very much for all your hard work.

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@NetscapeNavigator@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-16 22:37

@jon You may get some hate for it, because it is impossible to please everyone, and those who try often end up pleasing no one. That said, stay with Chromium / Blink. At the moment, today, Apple's WebKit has more of a market share than Mozilla's Gecko, which continues to lose ground. And whether people like it or not, Chromium / Blink is the current world stanard. It is what people picked, and continue to use, and rely upon. It works, and it works well. Yes, Google is an evil company. You've point that fact out, and everyone who will object will happily point that out too. But people made Chromium / Blink the majority. And until that changes, sticking around with what works makes sense.

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@exitcode@fosstodon.org 2026-04-16 23:57

@jon have you looked at Servo as the possible engine Vivaldi could run on?

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@lerudd@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-17 01:36

@jon thank you and the vivaldi team for making and maintaining my favorite browser. any chance you have anyone working on anti-fingerprinting?

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@jkambber@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-17 16:55

@jon I'm convincing my mates to switch to Vivaldi , everyone I meet

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