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As an interface i use XP and my browser is Firefox.
I believe that most of the peoples who use web more regularly uses firefox.
all geeks and those that use the web for work tend to use firefox because its faster and has a lot more features (like plugins).
i only use IE for testing or when a website doesn’t display properly in firefox. happens occasionally but not too often.
I’m running Vista, with Firefox & I.E.
I’m a big promoter of Firefox, and only use I.E when I have to.
I use firefox as my default browser – I just find it more user friendly and asthetically appealing, but for testing purposes I always use both FF and IE.
Cheers,
Mac OSX, FF, Safari, Opera
peecee windoze XP just for testing: FF, Internet Exploder (standards? what´s that?), Opera.
PS: don´t forget Opera, nowadays it has about 7-8% marketshare and growing! This is probabilly the most precice and sensitive browser of all! Also almost all mobile internet surfing gadgets are utilizing opera´s technology.
FF´s growth has become very slow, grew maybe 5% in the last 2 years.
Firefox is the more compliant browser. Most problems arise in the way FF and IE handle css margins/padding and a few others as well.
You’ll rack your brain trying to get things to render the way you want in both browsers unless you first Google margins and/or padding in Firefox or IE and review the ton of information including hacks and workarounds.
Although I hear IE 8 is out. Anyone use it yet?
I use FF but it does suck the juice from my computer, runs very slowly sometimes.
I used to use IE, then switched to Firefox when they introduced tabbed browsing although I found it too slow and clunky, so when IE added tabbed browsing, I switched back.
From a developing perspective, FF is more compliant but that means more strict and IE is more forgiving. The sensible option is to develop in FF because it’s more likely to work in IE by default, but to be honest FF drives me nuts so I only worry about IE and if it works in FF aswell, it’s a bonus. As an aside, 17.1% of all my users use FF.
I must admit, I don’t really understand why people prefer FF myself. And life as a developer was so much easier after Netscape bombed and we only had to worry about one browser
Thank goodness for Simmo once again
I thought I was the lone wolf out there still using IE, I can’t be bothered with all the annoying plug ins that FF requires and all the other hassles that come with it.What my visitors use:
Browsers (Top 10)
Browsers
Hits
Percent
MS Internet Explorer
1085487
76.6 %
Unknown
160395
11.3 %
Firefox
86898
6.1 %
Mozilla
27253
1.9 %
Netscape
21682
1.5 %
NewsGator (RSS Reader)–13803
0.9 %
Safari
8573
0.6 %
Opera
6174
0.4 %
LibWWW-perl
1352
0 %
BonEcho(Firefox 2.0 development)–1180
0 %
Others
3501
0.2 %The “Unknown” browsers will be spiders and stuff like that so you can largely discount that stat Dom.
Yep, not worried about those, they just make the numbers pan out in the end. :hattip:
They are a source of worry on another note though – there are a lot of grabbers today that pretend to be googlebot.
For bigger sites or people who get copied a lot, it is good practice to match the google bots to actual google IPs and block the ones that don’t match up.
Thanks to all of you who replied.
Some very use full info in the replies ya’ll gave.
Thank you,
@bonustreak 174333 wrote:
Thank goodness for Simmo once again
I thought I was the lone wolf out there still using IE, I can’t be bothered with all the annoying plug ins that FF requires and all the other hassles that come with it.I always use IE as do most visitors, but I check things in FF as sometimes the banners are spaced correctly in IE but touch each other in FF. Of course my site is an old site done in tables.
