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« on: April 07, 2005, 03:44:16 PM » |
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Interesting observation:
As of about the past 6 weeks, only 55% of visitors to this site are using I.E. -- a huge decline from just a year ago! (One that I'm very happy to see, as well.) I.E. used to carry over 90% of the hits at QuestStudios.com.
Firefox is increasing popularity each week since early February of this year. When I first starting tracking stats on my home server in February, Firefox held about 10% of the traffic. Now it's up to 20%. Mozilla is next at about 14%, followed by Opera at around 7%.
Also interesting is that Netscape users only account for less than 1% of the hits. Firefox (Netscape's clone) has probably recruited most of the Netscape users.
I'm really glad to see Micro$oft finally losing ground to these better browsers.
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2005, 09:07:07 PM » |
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There might be even less people using IE than that. I'm being IDed as IE 6 even though I use Opera. Opera is set to ID as IE by default since more sites work that way. I don't know if anyone else who visits this site uses Opera, but it's probably true for them too.
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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2005, 10:42:57 PM » |
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Though, I'm receiving a lot of Opera hits...so some versions must not be identified as IE?
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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2005, 11:39:58 PM » |
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It's pretty easy to set it to ID as Opera, but some sites refuse to display if you do that. I'm just saying that those statistics might not always be 100% correct since browsers can be set to ID as other browsers for better compatibility. It's great to see that IE is losing users though.  |
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2005, 11:46:18 PM » |
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Yeah, I figure they're rough estimates, anyway. But the I.E. change is what really intrigues me. Since I have to use I.E. at work to access my server (which I do A LOT), I'm probably helping to slant I.E.'s popularity, unfairly. |
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« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2005, 02:32:08 AM » |
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I think it really boils down to MS dropping the ball on IE development. Firefox is lean & mean and does exactly what IE should be doing but MS dropped the ball with adding new functionality. With MS saying IE7 will now be an independent release from Longhorn, it will be interesting to see if the ball swings back towards IE.
What I always liked about IE over Netscape or others (at the time), was it's ease of use and the UI. Firefox, however, has taken over in the area and really kicks butt as a browser. It won me over and I was a loyal IE user dating back to v1 of IE.
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« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2005, 01:00:30 PM » |
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It will be interesting to see what kind of features M$ puts in IE7. I'll laugh if they put in tabbed browsing. I read an article on CNET.com a few months ago that quoted a M$ employee as saying something to the effect of, "Nobody wants tabbed browsing." I certainly want tabbed browsing! And apparently a lot of others do, too! Tabs and all the extensions are two of the major reasons I am a Firefox fan.
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2005, 12:45:28 PM » |
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At this moment I've been using MyIE2 (now called Maxthon). It's a shell around IE and I've been using it for quite sometime. It has gestures & tabbed-browsing. I LOVE the tabbed browsing.
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2005, 03:04:36 PM » |
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I have been using Firefox for months and could never go back to IE. The plug-in facility is fantastic as the software in itself will never become "bloatware", as one just downloads the plug-ins that are useful to them.
For a few banking sites I still have to use IE, but I'm sure as Firefox gains popularity, especially because of its security, even banking institutions may reconsider their browser of choice.
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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2005, 02:04:08 AM » |
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I have just stuck with IE for the past couple of years, mainly because I haven't had many problems with it and am too lazy to go looking for something else. But after reading this, and hearing some people at work talk about Firefox, I am now curious to see if I would like it. Sounds good enough to at least try it out.
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