[tbassetto]

> how does this company pay the bills?

Looks like they aren't making money yet: https://www.proff.no/selskap/vivaldi-technologies-as/oslo/in... (warning, the website is in Norwegian, Vivaldi is based in Oslo).

I don't know if they have raised money yet, but the company has been created by the previous CTO of Opera, who made millions out of it.

Also, former Opera employees told me that the amount of money search engines are willing to pay to be featured in browsers is huge (relatively to the cost of running a browser company, even more so when you don't have to build the rendering engine).

[mcbits]

I've often thought Opera should have stayed commercial. They probably would have still maintained 1% market share, but with a cool half-billion in revenue keeping it the browser worth paying for. I wonder if it's too late for Vivaldi to start charging $49 or so.