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Firefox Site Visits Up 237%
prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings, a top Web reporting and metrics agency, started tracking the Firefox Web site in June 2004 and has announced 237% growth since then. Nielsen tracks Firefox Web site visits, not downloads or usage patterns, but it notes that "Men accounted for 71% or nearly 1.9 mln site visitors, compared to the women who comprised 29% or the minority population who visited in March 2005.""
But that's just me clicking reload a lot.
Does this take into account of the auto software update checks?
And how does NetRatings know the gender of the visitors? Maybe if a visitor is quick and direct, it's a male; If a visitor is browsing around few sections back and forward, it's a female?
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Well anyway, I often miss the X an hit the firefox logo, which takes me to the Firefox home page. Aha! So lots of MEN have been going to the Firefox page, huh? I wonder why! We're missing the X in the upper right corner while looking at pictures on the internet!
IE is the "girlie browser".
about:config > user.chromosome.autodetect Boolean, of course.
But... how are you clicking the links without the mouse? I find it a lot easier to use a mouse-only approach. Are we talking about the same "internet picture hobby" here?
Lucky for you it's a boolean, and not an integer!
John
I said "Unix", not "Eunuchs".
unixkb.com -- articles on practical Unix issues.
"Men accounted for 71% or nearly 1.9 mln site visitors, compared to the women who comprised 29% or the minority population who visited in March 2005."
The study also reported that nearly 71% of the men were visiting sites promising 100% women.
If you use Konqueror and you're bothered by servers tracking your gender, it's quick and painless to disable this reporting. Just click on:
...and in the "Default Identification" panel, uncheck the box labeled "Add gender information".
Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Browser Identification
If other reasons we do lack, we swear no one will die when we attack
Why is the sex of a computer user important? Is the next firefox update give a choice of pink or blue coloring?
every machine that passes through my domain is converted to FireFox
Nice! How'd you manage that, some funky new ActiveX control?
This is the default for Firefox 1.1. I think da laydeez and da fellaz will be down with it.
What I'd like to know is how the see the balls. Or perhaps I don't want to know...
well most of slashdot only needs to be able to count to 1 anyways.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Not to brag or anything, but I'm running WinXP 64 bit and just checked me User-Agent string and it says long long.
Dunno what that means.
What other populations exist, exactly? Transvestites? Monkeys? Martians?
Goo goo g'joob.
My ex-girlfriend was a 1337 hax0r... or at least she thought she was. Basically her 1337ness boiled down to having a few 'hacking tools' (nukers and the like) lying around in a folder on her Windows desktop, all (or almost all) of which were clearly just trojans. She had Norton AntiVirus installed, and it did it's valiant best to warn her that her 1337 hax0ring 't00lz' were doing nothing but fucking up her own box, but to no avail. There was no telling this girl that she wasn't a 1337 hax0r. A conversation to try to explain the concept of trojans to her went, as far as I can recall, something like this...
Me: You know those programs there are trojans, don't you?
Her: No hun, they're my little proggies... and anyway, I've got antivirus, so can't damage my machine anyway!
Me: You have antivirus? Surely that'd stop them running - how come you can still run them?
Her: Oh, when I run them now I get a red box come up that tells me it's a dangerous program or whatever, but it has a 'Run Anyway' option so it's OK.
Me: Umm.. you realise that choosing 'Run Anyway'... lets it do all the nasty stuff it was trying to do before the AntiVirus stopped it, don't you?
Her: Yeah, but it's OK, cos it's AntiVirus!
Me: Have you ever *run* a scan on it?
Her: Yeah, but it deleted them all, and I had to download them all again! Then the boxes came back!
Me: Because they're trying to tell you that they're fucking TROJANS!
Her: But it's OK, I've got AntiVirus!
Me: THAT'S WHAT THE FUCKING RED BOXES ARE! AND YOU'RE TELLING IT IT'S OK TO RUN THEM!
This went on for a good 20 minutes, went nowhere, and in the end I just went into the configuration and 'turned the red boxes off'. She was happy with that.
Her computer is fucked. She still thinks she's a 1337 hax0r.
It's cute now I'm not the one that has to clean it up.
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
My wife downloaded the fox at her work and then the security person found out. Well, she was told that this new browser was 'a security threat.' And she has to use IE for 'security reasons.'
That was supposed to be ironic, I hope you understand.
I know that when I'm looking at porn, I already have more than enough to handle just from one big 'pop up'...
...oh, were we talking about windows, here?
Multiplayer Gaming (defined): Sitting around, discussing single-player games with my friends, at the bar.
Most women I know don't complain anywhere near as much about popups and I've always assumed they don't hunt for porn as much.
Women don't have to hunt for it. They just need to use their husband's/boyfriend's bookmark list.
We can believe in you for 3 minutes, but beyond that, even the King of All Cosmos can't be expected to wait.
My goodness, so it is! Gads, I've been in this business since 1971 and I still learn new tricks. Maybe I'm a bot sloooow ....
thanks!
"Cats like plain crisps"