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Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend
carbolic writes "The Firefox browser is ramping up as fast as Internet Explorer is ramping down. According to these stats posted from the Engadget logfiles, IE has dropped to 57% of all browsers used to visit the site, while Firefox is up to an amazing 18%! The Engadget stats reflect an early-adopter consumer crowd and backing those up, this chart from w3schools shows the same trend. I guess CERT's recommendation and a mature product are finally paying off for the Mozilla project. Less than 2 years ago, IE had a 95% lock on the market. Anyone else see a trend here?"
Thunderbird DOES NOT handle large volumes of e-mails, and has about half the actual functionality of Outlook (their calendar plug-in is a joke.)
I was impressed with Firefox so I thought I'd try the switch. With a mixed up storage system that isn't easily moved (not without getting assloads of different folders everywhere) and it now taking 4 mins and 37 seconds to open a message...Outlook still takes the cake.
Now, if Ximian stopped being elitist and made Evolution for Windows, I'd drop Outlook in a second.
The Microsoft lackeys how this isn't a real website this can't be real, just like the last time.
People aren't "Microsoft lackeys" just because they criticize Slashdot for portraying this as a global stat when it's a local site log of a tech geek website. Slashdot did this last time with the w3schools statistics as well. They don't prove anything except that the geeks who visit those sites changed browsers.
Would you accept a Microsoft statistic stating IE is the dominant browser because the site logs of MSN say so? Get real.
Does ANYBODY around here understand the concept of a representative sample set?