Testing the Vivaldi web browser

Many users still mourn the original Opera browser [1] with its distinctive qualities. By 1996, the browser had captured a two percent market share, which it kept until the end of 2012. The percentage points in market share actually stood at six to eight percent for websites attracting technology aficionados. The usage statistics were the same for the Linux version although neither Opera, nor Vivaldi [2], are open software.

Opera maintained its own HTML rendering engine in the form of Presto; it also had an integrated mail client and was generally convincing with its original ideas.

Thus, some people still use the last complete version 12.16, even though current security concerns now make this highly impractical. Additionally, there has been no stable version for Linux up to Opera 26 since it reappeared.

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