Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Firefox Site Visits Up 237%

Posted by samzenpus on from the still-growing dept.

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.""

2 of 379 comments (clear)

  1. Aha! by jasperbg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Must have been all the links from my websites...

  2. Opera is more efficient. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Firefox is a really nice browser, and I deeply appreciate what the Firefox folks have done for all of us. However, I currently continue to use the closed-source, proprietary browser that is Opera, mainly because it is a lot more efficient at certain things than Firefox:

    Most important to me, once a page is loaded, accessing it is instant in Opera. Say you click on several links. You can go "back" any number of pages and each one instantly appears, without reloading or any of that inconvenient stuff. No other browser currently does this, whether it be Firefox, Safari on OS X, or anything else I've tried. Opera is the only one, and incidentally, I use this a lot. Once you get used to a feature like this, it is extremely difficult to switch browsers, no matter what the advantages of the other product.

    Also, I like the keys you can push in Opera. "z" takes you "back", "x" takes you "forward"... This is a lot easier than remembering all those weird key modifiers, alt, meta, option, control, or whatever, with various arrow keys, to go back and forward.

    Like I said, it's an efficient browser.