Comments on: Firefox Dominates Blog

By: Angsuman Chakraborty

Angsuman Chakraborty — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:54:17 +0000

I posted about it twice before:
FireFox browser is a clear winner with technologists
Latest results of Browser war from my microcosm of viewers (for the web)

Overall Mozilla group has 57% of the market share with Firefox alone at 49% when I last checked in April 2005.

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:50:46 +0000

While I have no doubt that Firefox is gaining popularity, I get very different results on my web stats:

Perc. Browser Name Version
97 97.00% MSIE 6.0
2 2.00% Firefox 1.0.6
1 1.00% Mozilla 5.0

I think the Firefox phenomena is localized to computer/tech oriented users. The readers of my blog are computer users, but I would not call them hard-core computer techies. Unfortunately (or fortunately, however you look at it), I believe that this is the more common results when looking at the total user base and not the smaller one centered around computers and tech. While Firefox may be the better browsers, I think it still has a long way to go.

By: Josef

Josef — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:27:05 +0000

Haven’t touched IE in several years – at least from the Mozilla reaching 1.0. The only exception being sites that REQUIRE IE – what do they think?
BTW: running Firefox on XP at work and Firefox/Konqueror on Linux at home.

By: Teyecoon

Teyecoon — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:55:04 +0000

Those are respectable numbers from apparently people with respectable levels of intelligence. My only dismay is from those few Firefox 1.04 users. Your obviously smart enough to use Firefox so be ultrasafe and responsible as to upgrade your version to 1.06.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

I understand that you feel and are safer than using IE but 1.06 is stable and without the few known vulnerabilities of 1.04 so reinforce the idea that the Firefox users are at “the top of the tech and intelligence chain”. : )

By: AB CD

AB CD — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:08:18 +0000

There are still many pages that won’t open under Firefox. Zone.com’s gaming site is one example.

By: site admin

site admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:01:08 +0000

This shoudl help:

Perc. Operating System
76.00% Windows XP
19.00% Mac OS X
2.00% Windows 2000
1.00% Windows 98
1.00% Sun
1.00% Linux

Here is a current snapshot..the Linux number is kind of low and the Mac number has jumped since the Podcast

By: Rick Blair

Rick Blair — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:33:01 +0000

Any platform stats?

Mac
Linux
Windoze

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:21:10 +0000

It’s only an overflow issues, very easy to fix, email me if you need a hand — if you’ll notice, it only drops when your left column is shorter than the middle.

I recommend http://www.shauninman.com/plete/shortstat/ for counting user hits, I just did a fresh install, very user friendly.

By: Kwasi Bunsie

Kwasi Bunsie — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:06:29 +0000

I find that many of the pages that render incorrectly in Firefox, are designed specifically for IE. Many sites out there still gear their sites towards the use of IE and MS products and it’s up to the designers of these sites to make them more accessible.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:55:55 +0000

It seems odd that one particular browser’s numbers would go up specifically in the evening… Is there any known reason for this?

By: Jonas Petja

Jonas Petja — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:02:48 +0000

Personally I think that many corporations still use IE and many of the people who view your blog with IE are people who do so at work. This means that there is propably even more Firefox users than your statistics indicate as many of the IE viewers have Firefox on their private PC instead of IE. And they would propably prefer Firefox at work too.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:43:18 +0000

I see a similar trend, John. Also, under 90% of my visitors use Windows.

By: site admin

site admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 03:38:21 +0000

The package I like the best is Statcounter which runs from a small file embedded on the site. http://www.statcounter.com — that’s where the broswer states came from.

I promise to fix the safari issues soon!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:28:34 +0000

Although….I used to use Firefox until I found Maxthon (www.maxthon.com). Maxthon works overtop of IE. My complaint with Firefox is that it would sometimes render pages poorly or not show images without a refresh or two. Maxthon has multiple tabs and an RSS reader that is far superior to Firefox’s Live Bookmarks.

Granted, the search feature in Firefox is much better.

By: Tom S.

Tom S. — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:10:37 +0000

I beleive two avenues of technology are out of microsofts icy grip, internet search/cool and interesting free programs like google earth, check it out, and web browser, in favor of firefox’s safe and activex free web browser, though i dont think you’l find an os better suited for easy access than xp.