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."

Comments

Re:Statistics....

[hoborocks]

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.

Hey, be kind!

[jd]

I think it very important if 99% of the world's population jumped off a bridge. For a start, the tsunami might damage my Internet connection.

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.

Well, of course!

[Hikaru79]

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.

They're right

[Feanturi]

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.

Obligatory Sony Rootkit Joke

[tclark]

Maybe we could get Sony to include it on some new CD's...

Re:Firefox is the most unstable program in common

[sootman]

"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 :-)

Actually

[halcyon1234]

Actually, this is just a dupe of an article posted five months ago.

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.

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