jrsilvey
jrsilvey The fact that Vivaldi isn't on iOS is because Apple has a requirement that any browser in the iOS App Store run on the Webkit platform. Releasing an iOS version of Vivaldi would require an entire rewrite of the browser and that is the only thing preventing it from being added.
As I said, I understand the technical reasons**, and I accept Vivaldi's decision that the work required to make Vivaldi available on iOS is not justifiable on a cost/benefit basis, given the iPhone's relatively small (15% or thereabouts) market share. But that decision takes Vivaldi out of the running for me.
jrsilvey I know this doesn't fix anything but maybe at least it helped you use the browser on another platform you have access too!
But why? As you understand from my earlier comments, I base technology decisions on functionality and practicality. Vivaldi is an excellent browser, but it isn't enough better than Edge or Firefox to entice me to ignore a threshold requirement, which is that the browser sync bookmarks/favorites across all the platforms (Android, iOS, Linux and Windows) that I use daily. Absent a compelling reason to do so, it is neither functional nor practical for me to regress a decade to the days when I manually kept browsers in sync across platforms. Any benefit I'd gain from Vivaldi would be outweighed by the cost of manual syncing.
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** Because the browser engine would change from Blink to Webkit, Vivaldi would have to rework the UI and external control elements of the browser to adapt them to the Webkit engine.
