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Post #3412208

2026-06-24 18:33 UTC

At Opera we built, IMHO, the best browser engine, Presto. It was built from scratch. It aced all the tests. It was lean and fast and could run on just about any hardware. It could even run on hardware where there was not enough memory to keep a full web page in memory, which is how it was able to run on things like mobile phones, game consoles, such as the Nintendo DS and Wii, and TVs. We even made it run effectively on servers, which is how we made Opera Mini. We did that with a relatively small team. It had grown to 100 by the time I left and needed to keep growing by about 10% pr year, at my estimate. After I left, the idiots running Opera at that time decided to kill Presto and go for Webkit and Chromium. Microsoft made the same move. When we founded @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net , we knew that building a browser from scratch is not trivial and we had to do the same as Apple, Google and Microsoft and build on available source. We choose the best one available to us. We know how to build a browser. Likely better than most as we have been doing this for more than 30 years. A strong Vivaldi can and will influence the Web in a positive way, like we did with Opera. If you want a better Web, supporting Vivaldi is one of the best ways to achieve that. https://vivaldi.com/blog/how-can-a-dugnad-save-the-web/ #Windows #Macos #Linux #Technology #BigTech #Vivaldi

Replies (2)

  • @vale@fedi.vale.rocks 2026-06-26 06:35

    @jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I’ve been writing about web browsers on old and limited devices, and Opera pops up everywhere. Presto was such a force in the browser space. Such a testament to how solid of a browser engine Presto was for it to run so superbly over such a wide range of limited devices.

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  • @willrs@social.vivaldi.net 2026-06-24 19:05

    @jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I wish yous would contribute to Chromium/Blink more because they really could use help when it comes to just engineering wisdom and experience. Way too much of the engineering/technical side is left to Google employees and a lot of that is because no one else is stepping up to really contribute. Google has an imperfect engineering culture, it's not good for Chromium and the open web

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