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Firefox Slides, IE Gains?
limber writes "InformationWeek is reporting that a Dutch Web metrics company is stating that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has gained market share, contrary to other recent studies, while Firefox has lost market share, during the last two months. 'People are not switching so often to Firefox as before,' said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat."
Slashdot viewers are slipping against other sites, prompting the editors to post more articles about Firefox vs. IE in a hope to gain eyeballs.
Could it be that everyone using Firefox switched to Seamonkey?
"Yields falsehood when preceded by its own quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its own quotation.
I'd be sick of statistics too, if all of mine ended up adding to 100.04%... =P
But seriously, yeah, statistics don't mean much.
AccountKiller
Now, if you were to talk about 99% of Internet Explorer die-hards jumping off a bridge, that would be another matter. I'd even be willing to help them look for a suitable bridge.
The browser distribution does matter, however. At the present time, many sites are IE-specific and will not function under Firefox, SeaMonkey or Konqueror. I do not accept the argument that to be good, browser-specific code must be used. Nor do I accept the argument that nobody can test on all the browsers in use - that is why we have standards. And I definitely don't accept the argument that you'd design for the browser most in use, because a good design will work just as well on IE as a specific design, it'll just work everywhere else too.
Think global and long-term, not just next-cube-down and next-week.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Haven't you guys heard? The new IE7 beta has such revolutionary features as Popup Blockers, and even Tabbed Browsing! Of course Firefox can't compete. They'll have to come to their senses if they want to lead the pack.
People are not switching so often to Firefox
Yeah I never switch to Firefox anymore, once was enough. The same is true for most of the people I know using it. Something about switching to it that first time, they never switch to it again, I wonder what causes that. For awhile I tried downloading it from mozilla.org every time I wanted to surf, but that got tedious rapidly. I'm sorry I guess I'm just not doing my part. Hey I know, I could load up IE then close it, then load Firefox again, would that count as another switch? I promise to do it more often if it will help.
I mean, if 99.999% of the world jumps off a bridge, the corpses should be at least at the height of the bridge, so it should not be a hard fall. And then you can examine the bodies of those who jumped before searching for money, jewels and i-pods.
Maybe a little off-topic, but so I am too.
Why can't
If 99.999% of the people jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't need to.
Now the ecological ramifications of all that biomass decaying at the same time.... I wonder if any enviroterrorists have calculated that one yet....
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But seriously, yeah, statistics don't mean much.
That is only true %66.7 of the time.
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
60% of the time, statistics works every time.
Maybe we could get Sony to include it on some new CD's...
"Those who use a browser to do extensive research, for example, are likely to have more windows and tabs open than the average user."
:-)
Not to mention people who look at pron. Note to Mozilla: must fix!!!!!11one
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Edit: Upon further inspection, that article seems to refer to a completely different market slide by Firefox.
Edit to the edit: Upon even further inspection, it seems that there were about six articles between that one and this one saying that Firefox has gained marketshare. Now I'm confused.
Edit to the edit of the edit: Yet another further inspection reveals that there is no consistant definition of "gain", "loss", "market" or "marketshare" amongst all the articles, making them appear to be completely unrelated, unreliable, and possible questionable, if not outright self serving. But this is Slashdot, so that can't be.
Final edit: Upon yet another even further again inspection, I've come to a conclusion. Fuck it.
PS To The Final Edit: I just reread my own posting, and realized that I did explicitly point out that this is Slashdot. I had almost forgot that! So, I'm editing the post to that fact.
All Your Base Are Belong To Firefox! After all, oonly old people use IE! In soviet russia, my new beowolf cluster of Web Browser overlords welcome me.
UTF-8: There and Back Again
you forgot to take into account that Opera has a negative market share.
please excuse my apathy
I have decided to become a reliable source of statistical information and post the results from the webserver logs on my internal webserver. I have decided that this audience is an appropriate representation of the world's population and will thus announce that 50% of the world uses IE 5.0 Mac on OS 9, 30% uses Firefox (PC or Mac) and 10% uses Safari for Mac, and 10% use IE for PC.
There, you have it. The world predominantly uses IE. From the results of my INTRANET server, I have decided that Africa holds 12% of the users on the world, China a good 132.452324%, Canada is at -.4123%, and the USA takes the head with 4005.2342% of the users. You do the math.
Now that I have trolled, I'm going to get to my point. Who cares what X company says the current statistic is. If I cared enough, I'd ask for the results from Slashdot, Digg, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and a few other companies and throw it together. Otherwise, I'd assume that the stat is BOGUS!