Where did you first hear about Vivaldi?
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@lamarca I don't know when my brother told me about Vivaldi, but I started using it in June 2018.
(Did I understand you correctly?)
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@potmeklecbohdan Yes, you did. What about version number?
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@LonM Same here
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I was a secret tester before it was public thanks to the IRC room, which is why I suspect my vote may stand out when they look at the results, unless others put "Vivaldi IRC" as the "other"
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Hear from Vivaldi or hear from the Vivaldi Browser?
First by someone registering a Trademark for an obscure product called Vivaldi which was registered for all kinds of internet connections, browsing purposes and electronic communication (which rang a loud bell that there might be someone preparing a browser), then by a former employee who asked If I want to be a pre-alpha tester of the still not public forum and the browser - or it might have been in reverse order, a bit over 6 years is a long time ago
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Heard of it the day it came out publicly, from a user on the Opera boards.
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When I heard rumours that Opera was to ditch Presto for Webkit. I started looking round to see what other browsers were available, and if anyone was trying to create an Opera clone, especially a FOSS one. Shortly after the switch to Webkit, I later heard about Vivaldi from a news article, but I don't think there was even a public release to download at that time. Despite being nonfree software, I've been using it pretty-much ever since its first public release. I'd been vaguely aware that Vivaldi as a community had arisen when the old "My Opera" shut down rather abruptly, so I had high expectations and haven't been disappointed yet.
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From my Ambassador Profile...How did I find Vivaldi? I was fed up with intrusive Chrome and was less than thrilled with Firefox. Both are fine browsers. Just not for me. So, one afternoon in August 2016 I went hunting for a better browser.
I used Google to find Vivaldi. Thank you Google. Sorry Google, I don't use Chrome.
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Voted.
I found it a few years ago via Google after discovering reliable information that Maxthon (which I really liked) was a security/privacy risk. But I'm totally glad I found Vivaldi. Wouldn't go back to Maxthon now even if they cleaned up their act.
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The subsequent posts have reminded me to stress something I hadn't mentioned in my initial response: Any searching I would have done would not have been with G. Had a search-engine lead me to Vivaldi, it would have been either Duckduckgo or IXQuick (now Startpage). I now also use Qwant and SearX on top of those. I haven't used G as a search engine in probably 10 years or more.
I tried Chrome when it first came out, later switching to Chromium, but wasn't impressed. For me, it's Firefox/Vivaldi. I genuinely don't understand why everybody uses Chrome - unless it somehow gets sneakily installed on Windows systems as a bundled extra when they install other software.
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@jamesbeardmore said in Where did you first hear about Vivaldi?:
The subsequent posts have reminded me to stress something I hadn't mentioned in my initial response: Any searching I would have done would not have been with G. Had a search-engine lead me to Vivaldi, it would have been either Duckduckgo or IXQuick (now Startpage).
I had no idea about Duckduckgo or Startpage at the time. I did know about Bing and a few other engines, but none of them seemed useful to me. After finding V, I found DDG, which is my main engine for a while now. I also use Ecosia now & then.
@jamesbeardmore said in Where did you first hear about Vivaldi?:
...I genuinely don't understand why everybody uses Chrome - unless it somehow gets sneakily installed on Windows systems as a bundled extra when they install other software.
I tried it when it was the new kid on the block, but wasn't impressed. And as time went by I learned more about its ulterior motive, as well as Google's. I've become almost Google-free at this point. A few things are still necessary for various reasons, but the big G isn't getting as many pieces of me as they once did.
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I do a lot of research online, so I came to the Vivaldi website
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@lamarca said in Where did you first hear about Vivaldi?:
What about version number?
1.15 stable & (a bit later) 1.16 snapshot, IIRC
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Years ago I used Opera 12. After that Opera dropped its Presto engine I switched to Chrome. The first knowledge about Vivaldi I got from lurkmore.to about that former Opera's developers make new browser, and it had gladden me. After some time, I read on some hardware and software news site that Vivaldi had released publicly with Technical Preview version.
I gave Vivaldi a try, used this release a short time, but decided at that time to not switch to it, wait some time until the browser will be released as full version. And finally, when Vivaldi got 1.x version, I switched to it. Vivaldi now is just the best browser. -
News article from news.google.com
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@saudiqbal I thought your source was someone from whereismyȍepra.
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I discovered Vivaldi by reading this NextInpact article in September 2016.
And then :- :down_button: Downloaded
- :left-pointing_magnifying_glass: Discovered
- Played
- Amused
- Customized
- Favorites imported
- Fine tuned
- Satisfied
- In love
- Surfed
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Thanks everyone for sharing these great insights. Some people have asked us about the survey results and here they are: https://vivaldi3.typeform.com/report/yuXfL4/z2xN34qIhDIP50k2
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I was hoping there would be more voters.
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One point got my attention: just 8% first heard about Vivaldi from their friends.