It was super compact, a marvel of engineering and UX design that managed to pack all those things in a package of about 5MB at the time, and you wouldn't even see or load the extra functionality like the email client if you didn't use it. And a TON of features and UI flexibility. It had a built in email client, feed reader, calendar (unfortunately with no Exchange or Gmail integration), a notes app, a powerful download manager and even a Bitorrent client.
It had its own, super fast, rendering engine (I forget its name, Presto?). It then finally became a free browser but by then it was too late.
Vivaldi kind of tries to re-create the spirit of Opera, but I think it's going to be too hard to do it.įor those who didn't use it, Opera was first a paid browser (which limited its reach), then an ad-supported browser (which again limited its reach).
Vivaldi is developed by a team created by the former Opera founder and CEO.
