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doug in albq
Dec 29, 2008, 06:08 PM
That pathetic browser is almost dead! Yes!!

Saw some figures yesterday, and firefox is near 45% of the PC browser market.

IE 7 is in the 20's percentage...
IE 6 is in the 20's percentage...

Almost there.

Microsoft, keep on delaying your slow progress on IE8! by the time you release it, no one will want to use it.

Firefox is great, Chrome is ripping fast! both adhere to web standards.

Soon, no more coding tweaks for that evil thing IE. Notice that IE is two of the four letters in the word evil, that is no accident folks!;):eek::mad::)


Cassie
Dec 29, 2008, 06:12 PM
FF has 45%? That sounds like a huge overestimation to me...
oli2140
Dec 29, 2008, 06:13 PM
Do you know what percentage of mac users use Firefox?
MacDawg
Dec 29, 2008, 06:13 PM
FF has 45%? That sounds like a huge overestimation to me...

Me too... where did you see these figures?

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Tallest Skil
Dec 29, 2008, 06:13 PM
Saw some figures yesterday, and firefox is near 45% of the PC browser market.

IE 7 is in the 20's percentage...
IE 6 is in the 20's percentage...

Nope. I refuse to believe that.
doug in albq
Dec 29, 2008, 06:15 PM
Me too... where did you see these figures?

Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif


http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Cassie
Dec 29, 2008, 06:15 PM
This sounds more reasonable. (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28)
doug in albq
Dec 29, 2008, 06:16 PM
This sounds more reasonable. (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28)

so w3schools are liars?
MacDawg
Dec 29, 2008, 06:18 PM
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

This sounds more reasonable. (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/firefox-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&sample=28)

Interesting discrepancy... such a wide range

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MacDawg
Dec 29, 2008, 06:18 PM
so w3schools are liars?

She didn't say that at all... chill... just an interesting paradox
Statistics can be made to prove anything

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redwarrior
Dec 29, 2008, 06:20 PM
(The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures).

So what exactly gets dumped into their log files?:rolleyes:
doug in albq
Dec 29, 2008, 06:21 PM
So what exactly gets dumped into their log files?:rolleyes:


don't know, but I do know I want IE dead!
redwarrior
Dec 29, 2008, 06:23 PM
don't know, but I do know I want IE dead!
I don't like it either, but judging from your comments I haven't decided whether I like you! Everyone is entitled to his opinion.:rolleyes:
mkrishnan
Dec 29, 2008, 06:30 PM
That's enough of that....

If anyone who is .... ahem... currently able to post a new thread wants to start a more civil version of this discussion, please feel free.

P.S. The w3schools share numbers are based, AFAIK, purely on traffic to ther website. This always opens the potential for a systematic distortion. If you check traffic only to Apple.com, do you think you might see higher Safari numbers? Maybe? They're not lies. They're just statistics that sample a population. The people who go to w3schools. The underlying assumption that sampling this population means that a random sample of the US or world internet traveling population has also been taken is neither asserted nor reasonable.

AFAIK, the other marketshare one aggregates different streams of evidence to try and quantify an approximate usage rate of the whole internet.