Firefox finally passes IE6
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Firefox finally passes IE6
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Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#2I like the arstechnica pie chart at the bottom. I'm guessing a large percentage of their IE users are in fact tied in by office systems and such.
I suppose it's a credence to a tech site that its readers are overwhelmingly tech-orientated compared to the widespread market.
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#3This is such bs. Firefox outstripped IE6 a LONG TIME AGO. To back up my argument, we get hundreds of thousands of hits a day, spread around the world. IE6 gets about 3% of our total traffic of about 20 million per month. Firefox(overall, mainly 3.5 and less than half of that 3.0) are at 33%. IE(overall) is about 48%.
Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#4This is such bs. Firefox outstripped IE6 a LONG TIME AGO. To back up my argument, we get hundreds of thousands of hits a day, spread around the world. IE6 gets about 3% of our total traffic of about 20 million per month. Firefox(overall, mainly 3.5 and less than half of that 3.0) are at 33%. IE(overall) is about 48%.
... and what kind of site do you run? I think this means averaged over the web. If you're running anything remotely technical you have a very different userbase than, say, Yahoo!.
Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#5I like the arstechnica pie chart at the bottom. I'm guessing a large percentage of their IE users are in fact tied in by office systems and such. I suppose it's a credence to a tech site that its readers are overwhelmingly tech-orientated compared to the widespread market.
That should tell others that the people who know the most about computers tend not to use IE.
Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#6This is such bs. Firefox outstripped IE6 a LONG TIME AGO. To back up my argument, we get hundreds of thousands of hits a day, spread around the world. IE6 gets about 3% of our total traffic of about 20 million per month. Firefox(overall, mainly 3.5 and less than half of that 3.0) are at 33%. IE(overall) is about 48%.
I work for a company that runs ecommerce stores for major companies. Unfortunately 80% of these companies still use IE6.
Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#7This is such bs. Firefox outstripped IE6 a LONG TIME AGO. To back up my argument, we get hundreds of thousands of hits a day, spread around the world. IE6 gets about 3% of our total traffic of about 20 million per month. Firefox(overall, mainly 3.5 and less than half of that 3.0) are at 33%. IE(overall) is about 48%.
... and what kind of site do you run? I think this means averaged over the web. If you're running anything remotely technical you have a very different userbase than, say, Yahoo!.
Agreed. Just as another data point, justin.tv still gets a little over 8% of its traffic from IE6 users.
Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#8This is an unfair comparison. No single version of Firefox has greater marketshare than any single version of Internet Explorer. If you take all version of Firefox together, yes they do beat the oldest version of Internet Explorer still in wide usage, IE6, but that's comparing apples and oranges.
Web developers still have to target multiple versions of Firefox, and Firefox 2.x supports fewer things than Firefox 3.x. Likewise, developers still have to target IE6 (23.3% share), which supports even fewer web standards than pretty much every other version of every other major browser in wide usage.
Nevertheless, it's hard to understand how this comparison is valid or significant.
Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#9This is an unfair comparison. No single version of Firefox has greater marketshare than any single version of Internet Explorer. If you take all version of Firefox together, yes they do beat the oldest version of Internet Explorer still in wide usage, IE6, but that's comparing apples and oranges. Web developers still have to target multiple versions of Firefox, and Firefox 2.x supports fewer things than Firefox 3.x.…
For the things Firefox supports between versions, it supports them infinitely more consistently than IE. That matters.
Re: Firefox finally passes IE6
#10This is an unfair comparison. No single version of Firefox has greater marketshare than any single version of Internet Explorer. If you take all version of Firefox together, yes they do beat the oldest version of Internet Explorer still in wide usage, IE6, but that's comparing apples and oranges. Web developers still have to target multiple versions of Firefox, and Firefox 2.x supports fewer things than Firefox 3.x.…
For the things Firefox supports between versions, it supports them infinitely more consistently than IE. That matters.
I agree. There is certainly far less hassle going between Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.5 than there is between IE6 and IE7 or IE8. That said, this is not really the substance of the article or the article's headline. The headline and the comparison don't really make much sense, unless you're basically trying to promote Firefox. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Firefox user and evangelist. But making flimsy comparisons isn't what got us here and it doesn't really help us think about the state of the web.