|
 Ythan
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
 
Registered: 08/08/97
Posts: 18,825
Loc: NY/MA/VT Borderlands 
Last seen: 3 hours, 1 minute
|
 Firefox overtakes IE 
#6601382 - 02/23/07 09:46 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Well on the Shroomery at least.  Last month IE had the lead at 46.4% to Firefox's 45.1%, but this month it's 46.7% to 44.7% in Firefox's favor. Of course I'm only talking about one month which isn't even over yet, but I thought it was interesting. As far as I know this hasn't happened before on this site.
|
Annom
※※※※※※
Registered: 12/22/02
Posts: 6,367
Loc: Europe
Last seen: 10 months, 25 days
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Ythan]
#6601567 - 02/23/07 10:52 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
|
 Diploid
Cuban
Registered: 01/09/03
Posts: 19,274
Loc: Rabbit Hole
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Annom]
#6601716 - 02/23/07 11:25 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
That means Shroomerites are more progressive than most people. 
--------------------
Republican Values:
1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.
4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
|
Ythan
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Registered: 08/08/97
Posts: 18,825
Loc: NY/MA/VT Borderlands
Last seen: 3 hours, 1 minute
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Ythan]
#6602483 - 02/23/07 03:04 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Speaking of Firefox, 2.0.0.2 is out... get it while it's hot.
|
Boom
just a tester
Registered: 06/16/04
Posts: 11,252
Loc: Cypress Creek
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Ythan]
#6602858 - 02/23/07 04:27 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I switched the second I realized how nice tabbed browsing was
that and the find thing that stays docked to the bottom when you hit ctrl-f is so much better than the floating IE one
|
elbisivni
Registered: 10/01/06
Posts: 2,839
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Annom]
#6603499 - 02/23/07 07:03 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
that doesn't reflect actual browser usage does it?
Browser Statistics
Within the last 5 years the percentage of surfers using IE has dropped from just over 80% to about 55%. It's been dropping at a rate of a little under 10% a year, but now I suspect IE usage will begin to drop at a higher rate. Why? I have no solid idea. The sooner it phases out of existence the better.
--------------------
From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
|
Wasteland
Elektromeister!
Registered: 07/26/06
Posts: 4,776
Loc: A pathetic small town in ...
Last seen: 3 years, 4 months
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: elbisivni]
#6603513 - 02/23/07 07:09 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
It's so hard to think of something to say with Hypnotoad staring at me.
But firefox overcoming IE in any way is good news to me.
--------------------
The Mad Shroomer said:
People are always promising the apocalypse. They never deliver. 
|
DieCommie
Registered: 12/11/03
Posts: 29,258
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: elbisivni]
#6603537 - 02/23/07 07:17 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
The sooner it phases out of existence the better.
Well, I get your jist but we dont want it completely gone do we? We want a healthy competition between browsers. The more we have competing, the better our free browsers will be.
|
elbisivni
Registered: 10/01/06
Posts: 2,839
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: DieCommie]
#6603576 - 02/23/07 07:26 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Good point, but even with IE out of the picture there are a number of competitors. IE isn't even really in the competition, it's just like a really rich guy who buys himself a trophy or something... The sooner IE finally becomes standards compliant the better - but that probably won't ever happen. I'm surprised Netscape is still around. I think competition between browsers like Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Konqueror and a couple others would be fierce and result in some good tools. IE just plain fuckin blows, it's like they didn't even try to make it not complete shit.
--------------------
From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
|
Colonel Kurtz Ph.D
What What?
Registered: 07/22/04
Posts: 11,113
Loc: Shadow Moses
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Ythan]
#6604890 - 02/24/07 06:49 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Firefox will just turn as tyrannic as IE did if you ask me. Opera is suffering the monopolistic ways of firefox already!!
But of course, nobody asked me 
Long live Opera!
--------------------
There's no better way to rock out than with your cock out!!
|
mattymonkey
Feel Like aStranger...
Registered: 11/07/04
Posts: 973
Last seen: 11 years, 3 months
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: elbisivni]
#6605359 - 02/24/07 11:39 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
whats so bad about IE?
--------------------
"listening for the secret.. searching for the sound.."
|
elbisivni
Registered: 10/01/06
Posts: 2,839
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: mattymonkey]
#6605526 - 02/24/07 12:39 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I suggest your read this article. Or this one. Or a number of others..
My biggest problem with IE is it's complete disregard of established web standards. I'll spend hours programming a layout to the standards just to find that despite the fact it works in every standards compliant browser it does not work correctly at all in IE, which is especially discerning considering most internet users still utilize it (if that's even possible). Then I spend usually two or three times the amount of time it took me to initially program the site, just to find and test workarounds and hacks that make the site work correctly in IE. Or it will be impossible to make it work in IE, in which case I have to reformulate entire already utilized programming methods or make functional/aesthetic sacrifices in favor of some ass-backwards system. Ask any programmer and they will tell you of their plight.
--------------------
From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
Edited by elbisivni (02/24/07 12:48 PM)
|
Legend9123
Registered: 09/24/06
Posts: 2,590
Last seen: 10 months, 29 days
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: elbisivni]
#6611260 - 02/26/07 12:46 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I love Firefox and have been converting everybody I know to it since I found it. It isn't that hard to convert someone when IE sucks such big nuts.
--------------------
Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither.
-Benjamin Franklin
|
WhiskeyClone
Not here
Registered: 06/25/01
Posts: 16,509
Loc: Longitudinal Center of Canada ...
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Boom]
#6612929 - 02/26/07 02:51 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I find it's so much faster. Except now the  guy strokes his beard too fast... Like he's Freud on speed.
--------------------
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it.
~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
|
elbisivni
Registered: 10/01/06
Posts: 2,839
|
|
Quote:
WhiskeyClone said:
I find it's so much faster. Except now the guy strokes his beard too fast... Like he's Freud on speed.
it is faster, runs cleaner too
--------------------
From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
|
fufungi
Stranger
Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 224
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: Annom]
#6615213 - 02/27/07 12:33 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Who's the guy still using a WebTV???
|
WhiskeyClone
Not here
Registered: 06/25/01
Posts: 16,509
Loc: Longitudinal Center of Canada ...
|
Re: Firefox overtakes IE [Re: fufungi]
#6616404 - 02/27/07 11:39 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I forgot about that shit 
--------------------
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it.
~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
|
|
Threaded
Previous
Index
Next
Edit 
Reply 
1 2 3 all )
Silversoul
legallyhomeless
automan
nonoman
Smallworlds
Diploid
rchtyp
Warrior