Why do so few people use Firefox?

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  1. Hecky

    Hecky Like a Dungeon Dragon!

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    #21
    You mean only 0.16% of your users use firefox?

    EDIT : Oops nevermind...what is mozzilla anyway?
     
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  2. gsv13

    gsv13 Well-Known Member

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    #22
    Becoz lazy and ignorant ppl form the majority of us .... including sometimes me .... also most offices , schools and cyber cafe have IE by default only!!!
     
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  3. twistedspikes

    twistedspikes Notable Member

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    #23
    No it's not...:/

    FF3 maybe, FF2 nope.

    Plus if your wanting speed go for Opera.
     
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  4. Agent_Dweeb

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    #24
    http://mozilla.org

    I hope it helped :)

    That's why :p

    I am using Bon Echo, the dev release of the new Firefox
     
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  5. qazu

    qazu Well-Known Member

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    #25
    Well, I use IE because I don't have a problem with it. I see no reason to switch to FF and only use FF for testing my CSS.
     
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  6. bluedragon13123

    bluedragon13123 Banned

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    #26
    IDK why but I use Internet Explorer. It hasn't failed for me yet, doesn't crash for me or does anything wrong for me. Maybe I'm just lucky it works really good for me:p
     
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  7. Rage

    Rage Well-Known Member

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    #27
    few months back i used to use IE but i switched to FF...

    Opera rocks too...
     
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  8. bangalore

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    #28
    I'm using Firefox from it's first release
     
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  9. Hecky

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    #29
    Yeah but why are Firefox and mozilla different things?
     
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  10. Agent_Dweeb

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    #30
    Read more here

    Firefox is part of the Mozilla Project - there is more info above.
     
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  11. Melanie Mendelson

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    #31
    Most people are non-technical, and don't want to go through the trouble of installing it. IE works, so why bother?

    Melanie
     
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    #32
    I've been making Opera and FF known to all of my small business clients. explaining to them the exploits of
    IE is a big key for me. Many of my clients and calls that i take are mostly for peoople reporting slow PC performance.

    the calling card of corrupted registries and malware embeds.
     
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    #33
    I think in the future firefox will slowly increase and internet explorer will decrease, i am telling all my friends to get firefox, and they are happy with it
     
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    #34
    It's because IE comes with windows which is the OS most people use and it's just become a home name.

    16% is actually quite a good number.
     
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    #35
    It depends on your niche, if your site is web 2.0 then you would expect more of Firefox obviously.
     
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    #36
    Yeah... I also expect more people using firefox right now than IE. But my blog statistic also show majority of people are using IE.
     
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    #37
    Here is my stat. Main coz. It IE comes with most popular OS, Windows.

    MS Internet Explorer No 521383 62.2 %
    Firefox No 255468 30.5 %
    Opera No 29482 3.5 %
    Safari No 19346 2.3 %
    Mozilla No 5307 0.6 %
    Netscape 3012 0.3 %
    Unknown ? 1379 0.1 %
    Nokia Browser 520 0 %
    Camino No 193 0 %
    Konqueror 173 0 %
     
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  18. sundaybrew

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    #38
    I don't use ie that much , BUT your 100% right IE is way more stable then FF ,

    But I do love FF :)
     
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  19. Barpro

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    #39
    yeah I only use Firefox.. I.E. sucks bad...

    in fact I get irritated when I'm using another computer and they don't have firefox on their PC. I'm Like "dude"

    Safari and Opera are awesome too!
     
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  20. cool_78

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    #40
    Well I am happy that few people use firefox because if all of them use it and has adblock enabled then our adsense earnings will go down the drain :D
     
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