FireFox reaches 25%

[Jose_R.A.M]

FireFox reaches 25%

At least by W3counter's report, based on the last 31,612,302 unique visits to 4,436 websites shows that FireFox is now up 25%. More and more are making the switch from I.E.

Check out the numbers here: http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-05-20

The only time I intentionally use I.E. is still within FireFox.

Anyone here got more accurate numbers?

[JoN]

Congrats to them and all, but frankly the only benefit so far over IE7 is its speed...which is quite marginal. I still get annoying popups, suspicious cookies, crashes and most annoying of all, it has lost 2 years worth of my bookmarks. Now I have to do backup every week just to be safe.

Its a nice browser and deserves its place, but i cant help but see its success from guerrilla advertising by many anti anything MS users.

I would recommend it to my friends and colleagues, but with a warning.

p.s... yes there are add-ons that eliminate popups and other niggles, but I'm referring to the "out of the box" experience as in comparison to IE.

[Jose_R.A.M]

Ah, yes. Out of the box, there's minimal difference to I.E.7

Although, IE's tab browsing, I've found to be more awkward.

In comparison to say old FF1.0 v IE6, I just liked how I could continually enlarge text with the scroll wheel on FF. I was much happier with it on that alone (oh yeah, and the tabs)

As you say, there are add ons, and they've made the whole FF experience just infinitely better than I.E.

Tab Management, Download management, Ad/pop up blockers, media downloaders - just the simple things that make browsing with FF just so much more pleasant.

On the FF Note, v 2.0.0.4 is available for download.

[carcomptoy]

Before I used to be faithful to FireFox, but ever since IE caught up/copied them, I've been settling with IE7. I never really needed the download manager, as I just ended up clearing up the memory anyway; all I needed was the tab browsing. IE does it just as well, and my Google search box is still there.

Plus my university's Webmail works best with IE (wonder why Microsoft??)...so yeah IE it is.

[f_alejandro]

Considerably, I use both IE and FF. Microsoft Internet Explorer has become more richer and more sophisticated. Most technically designed website is designed for IE only and you will get a message saying "You need IE to view this page", e.g. one of the VAIO technical websites requiring IE ActiveX component only. Also, IE handles off-line pages in greater depth. Other consideration to add with is that my online-banking firm requires IE to use with their website.

On the other hand, I use FF also because sometimes, CSS designed website functions more on FireFox and FireFox displays these in a manner more accurate than IE. But this is minor. another problem I have with IE is on ShockWave driven websites. Often times, IE7 crashes on my favorite MMORPG shockwave-platform game, Sherwood Dungeon :D . So I'm stuck playing it in FF. LOL!

Finally, can't live without both.

[mewtwosama]

I used to use Avant Browser. It was built on top of IE6 and had tabbed browsing.

Then I switched to Firefox and haven't gone back. The extensions I've added make it really great.

[n1ghtFLY]

when im using firefox to browse and build up websites in a day it could reach up to 250mb of memory and one of my collegue used up to 600mb. Even after closing all the tabs and only opening google on a single tab the memory doesn't come back, its just stuck somewhere as if firefox not releasing it back.

this is what i hate the most with firefox.

several addons used such as web dev toolbar and firebug

[f_alejandro]

when im using firefox to browse and build up websites in a day it could reach up to 250mb of memory and one of my collegue used up to 600mb. Even after closing all the tabs and only opening google on a single tab the memory doesn't come back, its just stuck somewhere as if firefox not releasing it back.

this is what i hate the most with firefox.

several addons used such as web dev toolbar and firebug


another great reason. FF uses memory overheads than usual. And yes, sometimes even if you exited firefox, it's still there in taskman > processes. FireFox really has memory leakage problem indeed as most users report. :)