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    Vivaldi, A new browser for our friends release vivaldi.com
    flyingfisch avatar via flyingfisch 3 years ago | cached | 4 comments

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    kel avatar kel 3 years ago | link

    Our idea was to make a really fast browser, capable of running on limited hardware

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    We use JavaScript and React to create the user interface

    So by “limited hardware” did they mean a 2006 macbook pro instead of a 2014 macbook pro?

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      Hamcha avatar Hamcha 3 years ago | link

      The website looks like they’re going against Opera for becoming a Chrome clone yet what they’ve done is making another one (Blink, closed source, PPAPI etc)

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      sspiff avatar sspiff 3 years ago | link

      Can anyone here explain to me why people would want this? What do they offer that makes it worth switching?

      • They use the same rendering engine most browsers do (WebKit/Blink)
      • They’re not open source
      • They don’t really have any features other browsers lack (yet)

      I just don’t see the point, I suppose.

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        flyingfisch avatar flyingfisch 3 years ago | link

        Looks to me like it is an HTML5/JS version of Opera, and they are trying to make the UI their selling point. We’ll have to see how it turns out.