Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.
Maintaining a viable cross platform 3rd party browser with proper extensions support including Ublock and strict tracking controls?
It’s not “proper extensions support” if they don’t work half the time, and start working only after the website is loaded. Breaks gestures support completely, for instance.
Firefox is great, don’t get me wrong, but there’s A LOT wrong with its extensions system.
None of that is unique to Firefox though. Vivaldi has all those features too and adblock don’t even require an extension its just built in, Mozilla doesn’t even include adblocking by default.
An additional engine is important because otherwise the implementation becomes the standard instead of the engine following the standard. That is a risk to further competition. We saw that when IE won too hard over Netscape.