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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.'"

5 of 340 comments (clear)

  1. fr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    frost piss

  2. ACID test by genocyde · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm a die hard firefox user, but firefox doesnt even pass the acid test. Don't complain that "firefox is being alienated" when it doesnt even pass rudimentary web tests

  3. fp cockY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    pro-hom;osexual

  4. Centered page rendering and hostile geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The lack of a space for a permanant right hand scroll bar means that centred sites jump all over the place, see for example (in firefox http://www.britart.com/ ).

    See the crazy discussion on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72540 and their discussion page http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=5693 50#569350

    About time these snotty Firefox developers got some flak - I was getting people to use it until I saw how bad the rendering was.

  5. Re:IE only sites by ajs318 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I develop sites to work in Firefox. Frankly, I don't give a flying toss if they run in IE or not. Anyone can run Firefox. Not everyone can run IE.

    I believe it is morally very dodgy indeed to insist for someone to run a piece of closed-source software.

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