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10 Percent of UK Sites Incompatible with Firefox

Posted by Zonk on from the share-the-web dept.

Bimo_Dude writes "The BBC News is reporting that ten percent of UK websites alienate Firefox users. From the article: 'While most people still use Microsoft's browser, Firefox is slowly making inroads. Its share of the browser market grew to 8% in May, up from 5.59% at the beginning of the year, according to US-based analysts NetApplications. Microsoft IE's share of the market dropped to 87.23% in May, compared to 90.31% in January.'"

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  1. Firefox needs to change. by xplenumx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I really think a lot of people here have forgotten (or never experienced) what it's like to be a non-technical savy individual. As far as most people are concerned, IE has been the only browser that they've ever known, probably even heard of, for as long as they've been introduced to the internet. IE is the standard. So when this new broswer, Firefox, doesn't work with 10% or so of the webpages, for the vast majority of the people out there it's not a 'lazy web-developer' issue, it's a 'Firefox is broken' issue. Not a great way to gain marketshare. Right or wrong, Firefox absolutely must work with the standards that IE has set.