The design emphasizes simplicity, but there are also a few playful touches. I’ve used the preview of Vivaldi as my main browser for a full day now and the team is definitely on the right track. They were two good choices in any case, but we went with the safer choice.” “And going with Mozilla - we felt that fewer people were using it. “Going with WebKit didn’t make a lot of sense,” he said. The team was obviously too small to write its own engine from scratch, and while von Tetzchner also looked at using Mozilla’s engine and WebKit, he decided to go with Google’s project in the end. The Vivaldi team decided to go with Chromium as the foundation of the browser. “We are going for the kind of user who spends a lot of time online, keeps a lot of tabs open and likes to work efficiently with a lot of content. “There are a lot of browsers available for the crowd that doesn’t want a lot from their browsers,” von Tetzchner argued. The team has worked on the Vivaldi browser for the last year-and-a-half, and while this is clearly still an early preview and many features are still missing, the browser feels pretty polished already. Many of Vivaldi’s features were clearly inspired by Opera, and von Tetzchner freely acknowledges that - but then Opera decided to do away with many of these after it made the switch to WebKit (and later Blink). “I felt like that connection had been severed.” “Opera was built around a community and a close connection with its users,” he told me. But then he decided to get back into the browser game after Opera decided to kill off its Presto engine and go after a different user base. Von Tetzchner told me earlier this week that he thought he would happily continue using Opera after he left the company. It was always pretty clear that von Tetzchner had larger ambitions than running a forum, though.
He reappeared almost exactly a year ago when he launched Vivaldi - a social network and forum site for exiles from Opera’s now-closed community site. It’s been three-and-a-half years since the outspoken von Tetzchner resigned as Opera’s CEO after co-founding the company back in 1995.
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