Interview with the creator of Opera and Vivaldi, an endless list of cases and California under the cap

The topic of release is how to make a browser.

Norwegian Yon von Tekner created the Opera browser and was able to gain 350 million users, but left the company due to the conflict with partners and eventually decided to create a new browser.

Vivaldi, built on the Chromium engine, is still a little more than a million users. This is two orders of magnitude less than that of the leader - Google Chrome, but only 5 million people need only 5 million people to pay off the background of von.

Vivaldi is built as a flexible and customizable browser, where the same task can be performed in several ways.

The Bell interviewed the creator of Opera and Vivaldi. Here isthe full text , here are the main theses:

• On one user, Vivaldi earns about the dollar a year. Basically - thanks to the search and bookmarks adapted to the market.
• The ecosystem is expanded at the expense of mail, blogs and forums - in this Vivaldi is in the footsteps of the old Opera.
• Unlike Opera, Vivaldi does not develop its own engine and fundamentally does not attract investors.
• Vivaldi does not collect user data, building even its development without personalized telemetry. Instead, the team listens to users and arranges voting for certain functions.
• If the function can be implemented in several ways, it is made an option.
• Von Tsner believes in the need for strict legislative regulation of personal data. In particular, in his opinion, the collection of excess data should be imposed outside the law, and reselling the collected personal information is certainly prohibited.

Vivaldi browser in one of the standard topics

+1 to productivity

The Medium edition of The Startup offers to go faster on an endless list of affairs.

The first step should be the adoption of the fact that today all things will not work. This is the key problem of all perfectionists, who during the day pay more attention to managing their own thoughts than tasks.

The second step - write down all the specific things that need to be done. The smaller the matter, the more chance that you will be able to fulfill it.

The third step is to prioritize. The first should go things that cannot be moved in any way. Lay on them with a margin. Consider the deadlines - what do you need to fulfill today at all costs? What will wait?

The fourth step - write all this on the schedule. Add breaks between matters. Follow.

A similar scheme is implemented in the satistime web application-there is a binding to the time and even tracking goals.

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