I was an avid Opera fan for a long time. I used to like their features and how I could use an only software for almost everything I make on the internet. While that, my admiration for Jon and his team grew up more and more. But hard times arrived. That inventive team was losing their creativity. Other things from backstage were coming up and they weren’t good. Opera was losing its essence. The final shot was the MyOpera abandoment. It shown to me the browser I most loved was giving the back to their community, community that keeps the browser alive even in the hard times of popularity. I was lost. Where should I go? My question was replied some time after.
Jon went back with the community, under Vivaldi name now. This was like a father saying to his sons what were facing difficulties: “for anything, you have a place to back, a place to you call “home””. I am emphatic: the best thing beyond helping to grow Opera up was Job keeps the Opera’s spirit alive. Then, in a ant work, was building a browser that I can’t imagine to live without that. Some old known from Opera went to Vteam. The Swiss Knife was backing, with some Iceland accent. I did good friends from Opera time and are with me till nowadays. Vivaldi gave me new ones.
You asked to users what are features we can’t live without or how does it help us work smarter… For beginning, I can’t live without using the MHT saving. I visit a lot of pages a day, many kind of subjects, university, cultural (useful and not useful), gaming, sporting, anything. I must have GBs and GBs just of saved pages, that I visit later, for learning or remembering something, consulting. I think that’s the most feature I use and the most useful. Another way to keep myself too informed are the Notes. I am always noting something and the way the Note works is awesome, with you organizing them in folders, in many kind of order, knowing what site that Note is from.
I like to use the webpanels, mainly when I wanna check a thing quickly but I wanna keep eye on the current page. Kinda… comment on Facebook/Twitter about some episode I was watching or watching Flamengo/Feyenoord/Chapecoense matches and checking the Resultados.com about other results and the leaderboard. Very useful, and you can adjust in personalized way the width of each webpanel and the site page is fit perfectly with the sidebar width. An Opera feature.
I can’t forget the bookmarks. I use it a lot and I know I have a exageratted number of saved URLS (since Opera epoch I think) but that’s the best bookmark manager I know and I hope it goes to the Opera’s bookmark manager level, that was the best I’ve used! This fits with the way I use and save my sites. The nickname field makes easier the task of finding the site what I want and the Description field helps me when I save part of a text of the site on it, making easier to find it later. Two tools of the bookmark manager I love!
The email client! I always liked email clients since Thunderbird and when I knew a browser that offered a email client built-in, to me was perfect to check my emails without losing what I was doing on the browser, in the same software. Opera taught me and Vivaldi followed and improved that feature. It gonna be awesome, guys! And about emails, the Vivaldi Email server is great I have used it since when it was launched, helping with bug reports and now I used it in a good part of the sites I visit. He’s fast, responsive, useful and fits perfectly with my Vivaldi Email Client use.
The screenshot feature is priceless! Made easier to report bugs to Vivaldi or showing what I’m watching to my friends, posting on Twitter/Facebook.
The Themes can’t be (still) that power of customization that Opera’s Skins had but I feel an improvement, mainly with the Scheduled Themes, where you can create a Theme to be active in a certain time (when it’s 8 PM, my standard theme is changed by a darker one, I like but I need play more with that :P).
The History is the most advanced I’ve seen in browsers, giving a detailed infos about your browsing use, the most sites you use, dates, graphics… Who likes stats need to have a look on this.
The Calendar can’t be that ready but I see I’ll use it a lot as my online agenda.
Oh! I was almost forgetting the Sessions! Due I visit a lot of sites and live opening links and links, then I see I can’t see that all, then I save that session of bookmarks into session manager. It’s my see it later list. And avoid I save links on bookmark manager unnecessary. The tab stacking (grouping the tabs by site or same subject) is as my saver as the Tab Manager, a thing I was missing from Opera and was too improved that I don’t miss the Opera version.
What I wanna mean that Jon and his group changed my life forever and help those guys spreading the Vivaldi for the world is a pleasure. That browser makes me excited and happy for using. And I hope to see it growing up more and more. The people need to have the real power to see the internet of the way they really wanted and looked for. They will get it with Vivaldi, for sure.
Muito obrigado, Vivaldi Team.
