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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Lantec
Reply #42 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:16 AM
It could be worse than they think then, because Opera will allow you to set it to identify itself as IE.
Reply #42 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:16 AM
| Logging into a website gives that site a bit of info about the login, eg. IP address and browser type.. |
It could be worse than they think then, because Opera will allow you to set it to identify itself as IE.
Mark Allshouse
Reply #43 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:05 PM
You're an ass.
Reply #43 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:05 PM
| Obviously most people use IE6 over IE7. Why? Because they're too cheap to actually have a legal version of XP. Only reason. IE7 annihilates every browser out there. Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6... whatever. |
You're an ass.
snuffleupagus
Reply #45 Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:10 AM
Reply #45 Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:10 AM
Interestingly...
Just this afternoon my girl's laptop got an 'auto-update' from MS including IE7. We decided to install it since recently IE6 had been problematic for her lately anyway.
Big mistake...
She's really into blogging right now so this was our particular criteria... and it failed bad...
For some reason Blogs that display just fine in Firefox, Opera, IE6, and even older versions of IE, failed miserably in IE7. Text and images completely sliding out of their container elements... off the page actually. Text in a lonnnggggg column only 6 or so characters wide... Completely unreadable.
Lasted about 3 minutes...
She asked me to let her try Firefox, so I installed it for her, showed her the basics/differences to what she was used to in IE6.
Her first comment was, and I kid you not, "This is soooo much faster..."
Sexy skins, tabs, innovative extensions, pretty toolbars... whatever.
First and foremost the browser has to work correctly at what it's supposed to do. And that's displaying web content.
Point of view from a decidedly non-techie personality:
IE7 - 0
FF2 - 1
Just this afternoon my girl's laptop got an 'auto-update' from MS including IE7. We decided to install it since recently IE6 had been problematic for her lately anyway.
Big mistake...
She's really into blogging right now so this was our particular criteria... and it failed bad...
For some reason Blogs that display just fine in Firefox, Opera, IE6, and even older versions of IE, failed miserably in IE7. Text and images completely sliding out of their container elements... off the page actually. Text in a lonnnggggg column only 6 or so characters wide... Completely unreadable.
Lasted about 3 minutes...
She asked me to let her try Firefox, so I installed it for her, showed her the basics/differences to what she was used to in IE6.
Her first comment was, and I kid you not, "This is soooo much faster..."
Sexy skins, tabs, innovative extensions, pretty toolbars... whatever.
First and foremost the browser has to work correctly at what it's supposed to do. And that's displaying web content.
Point of view from a decidedly non-techie personality:
IE7 - 0
FF2 - 1
HerbalWeed
Reply #46 Thursday, November 23, 2006 4:47 PM
Reply #46 Thursday, November 23, 2006 4:47 PM
Tried all the others, but always come back to I.E 
a2tomm
Reply #47 Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:29 PM
Reply #47 Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:29 PM
FIREFOX GETS MY VOTE.AS A MATTER OF FACT ALL OR AT LEAST 90% 0F ALL OF MY STUDENTS USE FIREFOX AS WELL.
a2tomm
Reply #48 Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:30 PM
Reply #48 Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:30 PM
ITS STILL A FREE COUNTRY AND MOST USE THAT ABILITY TO CHOOSE
Septimus
Reply #49 Friday, November 24, 2006 9:36 AM
No need to tell me. I probably support more sites than you through subscriptions. Inlcuding smaller ones such as gfxoasis, hardwaregeeks up to wincustomize and gamespot.
Ad blocking is useful on a lot of site. Only place that really whines about it is neowin.
Reply #49 Friday, November 24, 2006 9:36 AM
| Ad support sites. Blocking ads can kill revenue and thence the site you want to see. If you are going to block ads, find other ways to support those sites. |
No need to tell me. I probably support more sites than you through subscriptions. Inlcuding smaller ones such as gfxoasis, hardwaregeeks up to wincustomize and gamespot.
Ad blocking is useful on a lot of site. Only place that really whines about it is neowin.
RoseNell
Reply #50 Friday, November 24, 2006 10:52 AM
Reply #50 Friday, November 24, 2006 10:52 AM
I used to use IE6 when I had to and FireFox for everything eles, but now that I have IE7 , I don't need FireFox anymore. I love IE7. It is so nice to have the tabs and the stabilty on IE7 is great.
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Reply #41 Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:33 PM
Logging into a website gives that site a bit of info about the login, eg. IP address and browser type...