Where did you first hear about Vivaldi?
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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.
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@lamarca I'm not a socialiser(whatever that is) but I wonder how many users could spread the word where they work. I'm pretty sure a majority of users are in the workforce. Most if not all could let coworkers know about Vivaldi.
How many of us pass up a chance to sing the praises of Vivaldi?
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@raed Word of mouth helps. Friends, family and coworkers are all targets.
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It was a Blog or News post somewhere, (Ars T, gHacks or Gizmodo? maybe).
An article mentioned Jon was getting back into the Browser business and had an "Alpha" version of something he was calling Vivaldi (for the moment, but it stuck!) available for testing. It was several months before the "Technical Release".
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I took the survey/added my vote. I do recall hearing about Vivaldi a few years ago, but didn't explore it then. I first began using it when I started to do some research on more privacy-focused, non-tracking, non-censoring browsers to replace Chrome and Firefox (and their various developmental builds that I had been using). I searched the ArchWiki (I use Vivaldi and Vivaldi-Snapshot on Arch Linux), and along with various other browsers, such as Brave, Cliqz, Dissenter, Iridium, IceCat, and WaterFox, I also did quite a bit of research and testing of Vivaldi. I also read up on the company, its ethics, its mission statement, etc. In that process, I fell in love with Vivaldi quite quickly, and made it my default browser.
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First saw mention of Vivaldi in the comments of one of Opera's blog posts. Not sure if it was at the same time as the Vivaldi first became publicly announced or a bit later, but I downloaded the first tech preview as soon as I found it and have followed Vivaldi ever since (didn't use it until a couple of months after TP1, though, as the first tech previews had some annoying issues/missing features).
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@LonM '..found it in a discussion on the old (new?) opera site..'
Same here. I think in my case it was the new Opera user forum, transfered from my.opera.com when it was closed. I tried a first couple of releases with limited range of features, before went away in search of "another Opera".Rediscovered the "Viv" about a year & a half ago. Liked recent development such as profile management very much. Decided to come back to Vivaldi community a week or so ago to keep closer eye on future development.
@gaelle I tried to do the survey but, found no option to convey all of the above, didn't submit. Sorry.
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Arstechnica. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/vivaldi-2-0-review-meet-your-ideal-browser-if-youre-willing-to-invest-time/
What caught my eye was Chromium and customisation. I had no idea that a browser could be such a power user tool. There was another article, but wasn't able to find it. The article was something like 'i switched from chrome to vivaldi for ten days and never looked back.'