IE down to 56% of WinCustomize userbase
Firefox at 38%
Sunday, November 19, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
WinCustomize.com gets millions of visitors a month. But of those millions of users, fewer and fewer of them seem to be using Internet Explorer. At one time, over 90% of our users were using IE. Now, it's down to 56%.
Of that 56%, about a third of them have already upgraded to IE 7. The rest are using IE6.
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Reply #2 Monday, November 20, 2006 12:08 AM
I usually use IE7, but have FF and Opera for comparison/bug-squashing.
Tabs were the fave part of Opera eons ago...now IE7 has them so there's less 'need' to be using Opera...
Reply #3 Monday, November 20, 2006 12:16 AM
Speedy
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Reply #5 Monday, November 20, 2006 12:27 AM
It's been my experience that people who are technologically savvy are more prone to check out alternatives. I've not yet run into an average user who was consumed by the Firefox propaganda machine. I still have a few friends left at school who are using Firefox, but can't tell me why they're using it instead of IE, only that someone recommended that they should. Opera has been making some pleasing inroads. I greatly prefer the speed and stability of Opera over Firefox. It's my prediction that you'll see IE7 percentages rise over the next year. While I'm sure that they wont be nearly as high as the post-Netscape numbers, I would be willing to wage that, with the Microsoft corporate machine behind it, Firefox wont be able to keep up with IE7, now that IE is back in active development. That is of course, unless Microsoft repeats history and doesnt maintain consistant development on IE. The one fact that keeps me warm and fuzzy at night (as I am not a fan of Firefox) is that IE6+ will remain the business standard browser, which will keep the majority browser share across the web.
Reply #6 Monday, November 20, 2006 12:30 AM
. Firefox out of the box isn't all that great, but adding a few extensions makes it perfect (for me). I was an IE user for a long time (forced by my mom, who always uninstalled firefox every time I installed it) but now I can do whatever with my new computer.I have... 4 browsers installed on my computer (Firefox, IE7, Opera, and Flock)
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Reply #11 Monday, November 20, 2006 1:59 AM
IE7 annihilates every browser out there. Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6... whatever.
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Reply #14 Monday, November 20, 2006 5:19 AM
| I use 3 browsers. |
geeze Iben., you are realy a person of few words....
Before IE7 arrived, i was using Opera.., new i dont know why but i think that i prefer this new IE vertion...
(maybe microsoft wash my brain
)Reply #15 Monday, November 20, 2006 5:39 AM
Thankfully Jafo it has far more useful features than simply tabbed browsing (and even that is a better implementation than any other browser I've seen when used in full MDI mode.)
IE7 strikes me as far too little too late. Now it's only 2 years out of date instead of 5.
Reply #16 Monday, November 20, 2006 6:00 AM
| Obviously most people use IE6 over IE7. Why? Because they're too cheap to actually have a legal version of XP. Only reason. |
Don't actually need a genuine copy of XP as IE7,Windows Genuine Advantage & Windows Media Player 11 have all been cracked allowing pirated copies to install latest software.
By the way i use IE7 and have a genuine copy of Windows Media Center.
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Reply #19 Monday, November 20, 2006 7:15 AM
| Thankfully Jafo it has far more useful features than simply tabbed browsing (and even that is a better implementation than any other browser I've seen when used in full MDI mode.) |
I actually used Opera almost exclusively [on dialup] up till the advent of Wincustomize...where I helped with the opera/WC debugging...until becoming a Moderator where some of the features for admins didn't work as well in FF or Opera...so, since I'm on WC 24/7 it's been IE6/7 for me...
Reply #20 Monday, November 20, 2006 8:06 AM
Love the tabbs.....
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