To whom did you introduce Vivaldi today?
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@luetage the biggest problem is the habit changing. I had that problem with a friend that is keeping with Firefox and another one with Chrome.
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I'm a medicine student and well... All my friends and I are just focusing on competition. I remember one time they speak about browser, they just want to have a browser that function well ^^' and when I have try to show the advantage of mouse gestures to someone, the person found that weird ... Maybe I just speak with too simplistic people ahah.
I remember I saw a guy in my amphiteater that always have more than 20 tabs open, I should give him a word about Vivaldi -
My coworkers (500+ Employees).
I've got a few of them on board of our little string ensemble
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@jon One of the problems I have now when recommending Vivaldi to other people is that they feel just fine using chrome. Vivaldi today still has some bugs here and there, and when my friends switch to it, suddenly amazon prime video is not working for them anymore, suddenly a chat window on HSBC is not working anymore, they will just switch back -- why not just use what everyone uses and save all the trouble.
I use Vivaldi, because I hate big monopolies manipulating their power on the internet. I don't think the majority of people care about that.
In terms of all the customizable features, they're nice, but many of them require some time to get used to before they become part of the habit. So they don't outweigh the bugs for most new users.
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@chenyf I think the same way, you read my mind.
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Well, I haven't yet shared Vivaldi by assuring offline. I just wrote a post in Manjaro OS forum about what browser I use. Aaaand some guy replied me in the topic that he started to use Vivaldi again. Other guy, looking at the thread's posts about Vivaldi uses, said that he hadn't heard of Vivaldi browser before this thread, but after reading about V he's gonna to try it.
The thread https://forum.manjaro.org/t/what-browser-do-you-use/21321 looks good for us, it contains nice share of Vivaldi users' glad posts. It seems Manjaro users and Vivaldi users have something in common, heh, at least @Steffie :).
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This is how I advertise Vivaldi Browser in the MusicBee Forum:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=2258.msg166294#new
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I have been using this outstanding browser on my desktop for some time now and cannot imagine using any other browser. I use a Android phone. I was doing my happy dance when Vivaldi launched its Android browser. It synced with my desktop perfectly. A thousand Kudos to Jon and his very talented team for once again achieving perfection. This brings me to my point. Many of my friends and associates have iphones. They are synced to their desktop browsers. They will not consider Vivaldi because they cannot sync it to their iphones. Jon, when Vivaldi launches its iphone app I can promise you several new users.
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In a forum debate, where they asked for an information source, showing in response a screenshot of Vivaldi with different pages in splitscreen and the open webpanel with the news. It caused its effect.
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To not sound obtuse i introduced myself which is a good start i suppose.
I think the problem is getting people to "stay" with a software product and that is a big hurdle.
People like familiarity and are weary of anything new.You can take the horse to water but he may not wish to drink.
The human constitution is an oddfellow and can be set in their ways especially as older years arise.
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I have an suggestion how you could get a couple of thousands new users. I don't know how much work it would take for porting V to Lomiri(former Unity). Because you already have ported it to the Raspberry Pi. I am using Ubuntu Touch(Lomiri) on an old Nexus 5 and there is not much to compete with if you would port V to this platform or maybe to PostmarketOs too. Perhaps become the default browser. Here is some useful links:
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In the MusicBee Forum the interest in Vivaldi is growing:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=33283.msg181989#msg181989
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Just to add i am a puppy linux user and have been for several years and there is a substantial amount of puppy users who are using vivaldi as their default browser..me included of course.
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In Jabber/XMPP there is now also a Vivaldi room:
xmpp:[email protected]?joinSeveral people have already looked at this room, informed themselves and ended up at Vivaldi.
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The more people using it, the bigger the budget that Jon has to hire more developers and the faster that the product gets better... And then the more people using it and....
That is not how it actually works: In reality, the product must become more stable & secure first, or it will not attract and retain many users who recommend it to others. Every successful closed-source browser with a large market share has a huge investment and huge corporation behind it. In my opinion, Vivaldi lacks the resources which are necessary to increase market share. I would like to see Vivaldiโs user interface paired with the security of Brave and the mail component spun off as a separate application.
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@VMT4250 said in To whom did you introduce Vivaldi today?:
That is not how it actually works:
And yet, that is exactly the way it is working at present. I fear what you'd like to see will not come to pass. Mail was always part of Vivaldi's founding vision, and will always remain integrated.
But over time, I expect Vivaldi's security features will grow to rival Brave's. (Though Brave collaboration would be off the table, as the philosophies of the two browsers are pretty much diametrically opposed.)
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My family and online friends (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
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@VMT4250 in order for Vivaldi to get more money to do more they need to have more users. This is why spreading the word is important.
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To whom did you introduce Vivaldi today?
so many peeps! i couldn't get all their names, so i just counted 'em.
- today, twice as many as yesterday.
- last week, 7 times as many as the week before.
- last month, 23 times as many as the month before.
- last year, 42 times as many as the year before.