Receiving this reply from the @Vivaldi team was unexpectedly uplifting. It is rare for a simple developer response to bring this much genuine joy.

I have been a fan since the classic Opera days, and honestly, I still deeply miss the Presto engine. But seeing Vivaldi not just survive, but remain highly competitive in today's monopolized browser market, is truly inspiring.

The people behind this project are absolute geniuses and I sincerely hope they continue to grow, thrive, and capture the significant market share they deserve. This is exactly why supporting independent, user-focused tech is so important.

#VivaldiBrowser #OperaPresto #WebBrowsers #TechHistory #IndependentTech #Fediverse #blog

Tis now three or four days since i rebuilt my new profile in #Floorp, from whence this browser has continued to behave impeccably, thus allowing me simply to enjoy the experience rather than needing to troubleshoot it. I rate it really very highly! 🎉

There's much i like about it that has given it the decided edge over my previous default browser  #FirefoxNightly, but the most important of these arguably is the *separate* side panel, & its collection of user-configurable Web Panels i've arranged. Just like in the brilliant #Vivaldi, & its venerable forebear #OperaPresto, the workflow efficiency enhancement stemming from having web panels as well as the independent tabstrip, is considerable, albeit possibly not immediately self-evident to those who've not tried it.

As i mentioned in a prior toot, possibly the one dark cloud on my #Floorp horizon might be its #ESR base. Over time, given i used #Nightly in great part coz i like getting bugfixes & new features early, i wonder if Floorp will start to frustrate me, once the feature-gap between its frozen ESR-base & Nightly widens dramatically. 🤷‍♀️

Btw, when i decided to contemplate migrating from , i tested #Floorp side by side with #PulseBrowser , from which it rapidly became clear that atm PB is no contender at all [for me]. Whilst i DO like it NOT being based on ESR, it has no additional privacy nor UI settings tweaks over Nightly [unlike Floorp], & the killer blow was my shock discovery that unlike Floorp, PB's side panel is not at all independent of the tabstrip, unless one uses its experimental *native* vertical tabs [i only use #VerticalTabs in my browsers; i abandoned horizontals years ago for their inefficiency]. With the native vertical tabs, PB's panel is indeed separate, but given that both PB's & Floorp's native vertical tabs are flat not tree, in both cases i installed & use #Sidebery. Whereas in Floorp this maintains independence of the panel & the tabstrip, sadly in PB Sidebery installs into the panel, thus having no independence at all, & thereby entirely squandering the potential benefit of a side panel.