thender2
Glamour Profession
Premium
join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY | Amazing!
1% in four months.
At this rate, Firefox will be adopted as a contending browser by.. 2008? 2010?
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reflex9
join:2004-02-09 | Stats for each OS would be nice
I wonder how many Mac users prefer Safari over Firefox. |
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FDisk
O.O?
join:2003-08-18
Israel | It's a Zoo.
WTF is up with browsers and animals. And why no one calls their browser "The Turtle".
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
 ·AT&T Midwest
1 edit | W3Schools stats
W3Schools stats |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
Premium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | reply to thender2
Re: Amazing!
Actually less than 1/4% and falling...so more like forever. |
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SpartanVII
join:2003-12-04 | reply to reflex9
Re: Stats for each OS would be nice
Check one, for me. I recently switched over to a Mac, and figured I would be using Firefox instead of Safari because I use Firefox on my Windows computer. But, there really is no comparison between the two in terms of speed , start-up time, etc. |
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kfsutops
Premium
join:2002-08-19
Brandon, FL
clubs:  | reply to reflex9
On OSX Tiger, Safari works a lot better. I used to be a die hard Firefoxer, but now I'm going to use Safari. |
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Bobcat
Premium
join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | Yawn
So for every Firefox user, there are 10 -- count 'em -- 10 Internet Explorer users. This is news? <yawn>
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enOehT
Premium
join:2003-05-17
Langhorne, PA | reply to reflex9
Re: Stats for each OS would be nice
Safari for me.  |
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aenties
join:2005-03-19
Saint Louis, MO | firefox to opera
i started to use Opera 8 more and more but i've been a long time user of firefox..
firefox consumes too much memory for my taste where opera is perfect |
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DaDogs
Semper Vigilantis
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join:2004-02-28
Deltaville, VA
1 edit | reply to Bobcat
Re: Yawn
said by Bobcat  :So for every Firefox user, there are 10 -- count 'em -- 10 Internet Explorer users. This is news? <yawn> I'm not convinced. I've seen Microsoft purchase pollsters many times in the past. Even in this thread we see a site which claims that FF has 28% market share.
I believe this is probably closer to the truth when you are looking at technophiles because my own statistics at freeantennas.com show about 32% market share. Freeantennas is the kind of site that attracts a very specific group of people and usually only for one or two visits.
Thus I can say with reasonable confidence that 1 out of three "technically competent" people prefer Firefox. As this number closely agrees with the graph shown in this thread, and the graph is based primarily upon REAL datapoints. It looks like IE is dying a slow and painful death.
Nothing could make me happier except seeing MS do the same thing... but I am a MS hater.
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alg
Just a shot away
Premium
join:2001-04-10
Houston, TX
clubs: | Que FF fanboys and FF haters
I am surprised they haven't arrived yet. |
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Cop
Premium
join:2001-09-05
Auburn, AL | weha
well i just switched over about a week ago and love it except it doesnt do well on ebay |
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
Premium
join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ
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Re: W3Schools stats
This looks better.:D |
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rextilleon
join:2003-12-28
Pleasantville, NY | reply to Cop
Re: weha
I wonder if this will continue considering the fact that some of the primary developers of FF have jumped ship. |
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Viper007Bond
Premium
join:2002-09-26
Portland, OR
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Re: W3Schools stats
You suck at using the clone tool. I can see where you erased the lines. 
And I tried Opera and hated it.
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Anti_Cyrix
Premium
join:2003-03-06
Sacramento, CA
| Firefox > IE for my taste
I've been using firefox for about a year now, and never looked back to IE. Just installed v.1.0.3 a week ago, and haven't run into any problems on any of the computers I have at home (YET... ...for insurance of the statement  ).
I'd recommend firefox to any IE user that hasn't tired it yet. |
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
Premium
join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | reply to Viper007Bond
Re: W3Schools stats
What did you hate about it? Especially with its speed and all of its great features. |
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
·AT&T Midwest
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Based on your crappy edit, at the end of the chart, you are predicting about 30% usage from some other browser other than those 3, so Opera would still be only 2nd place, unless that 30% just gets spread over all the other little guys.
Anyway, Opera can never win with banner ads or payment as the only choices. I'm not saying it has to be open source, but most people won't buy a browser when there are plenty of free ones, and most people won't put up with that dumb banner wasted space. |
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
·AT&T Midwest
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I would say its inability to render things correctly, even in Opera 8.0, but Opera probably thinks they are rendering things correctly, even if the site only looks like it's intended to under Firefox, Netscape 6+, Mozilla, and IE 5+.
The skins in Opera really annoy me. The banner ad is a absolute deal breaker and there is no way I'm paying for something when there are free and also better alternatives. They also set up the keyboard shortcuts in weird ways that bother me, such as the inability to shift+arrow to select text. |
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