I’ve used Vivaldi for a bit, and it’s a nice browser. Coming from Chrome, there is a pretty painless transition since most extensions will work fine. However, Vivaldi does nothing to improve the state of the web. It’s just another webkit, fostering the monoculture; and their business model and practices are basically the same as Google’s, just on a smaller scale.
> It’s just another webkit, fostering the monoculture; Ignoring that Blink and Webkit are feature identical, what negative effects are there with an open source rendering engine monoculture?
Probably a good thing on the surface - less work for devs in terms of compatibility checks. Add competition has made all browsers less complacent, improved performance everywhere, sped up adoption of new tech and general been an adrenaline shot. Much less talk nowadays of “will browsers support it?”