IE down to 56% of WinCustomize userbase

Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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IE down to 56% of WinCustomize userbase

Firefox at 38%

WinCustomize.com gets millions of visitors a month. But of those millions of users, fewer and fewer of them seem to be using Internet Explorer. At one time, over 90% of our users were using IE. Now, it's down to 56%.

Of that 56%, about a third of them have already upgraded to IE 7. The rest are using IE6.

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I've been using Firefox since it was Firebird. I need IE7 for a few sites which stubbornly refuse to make themselves Firefox-friendly, but that's only a tiny minority. FF is faster and much lighter on the system, so I'll be sticking with it for the foreseeable future.

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I like everything to look good thats one of the main reasons i run IE7, FF in my eyes just looks crappy even with skins that looks good..
Nah and i love the IE7 interface with the easy to open and close tabs, zoom, favorites etc etc. Everything is right where i want it to be.
It looks alot better than FF in XP and it looks waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than FF in Vista wich ive been running for the last months, but is now back in XP.

The only thing i dont like is the search box, they should have put it on the bottom of the browser or something than just placing it exactly as in FF, doesnt feel righ to have it there i allways forget about it.

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I use IE7 but find that the Win Cust forums and the GUI champs web site do not display correctly. I get a whole series of alert boxes with "object not found". This only happens at the two sites mentioned.

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I use Maxthon. I've tried Firefox, but the memory leak sucks and I got tired of having to restart the browser every 3-4 hours. I've tried several other IE based browsers and Maxthon is the best. I tried Opera, but it just never 'felt' right to me.

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I use both IE7 and Firefox, but Firefox does not impress me as much as it used to.

I agree, Firefox used to be better than IE6 but now IE7 has improved itself to the point of being the browser of choice. Also you need to install too many extentions and plugins for Firefox to make it perform the same as IE and I don't care to initiate any conflicts.

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I wonder ... I don't use IE, I use an app called NetCaptor but it runs on top of IE. I assume then that I'm considered an IE user?

Yeap

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I use Firefox. I don't even bother trying to open IE because it basically doesn't work. I have problems scrolling through pages. I can't go to certain sites because it will lock up and it takes longer than Firefox to open. Not to mention I have Firefox all set up to load all the tabs I had open when I close it to restart my computer.

I installed IE 7, but that was no better.

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maybe microsoft wash my brain

TYCUS!

I use IE7, now. It works fine for me.

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I write extensions for Firefox. There is no way I would ever use another browser. Firefox has too many extensions for me to use anything else(Including my own, which has no similar variant on any other browser that I know of). I love how easy it is to customize it anyway I like. There are many ways to change or enhance the UI, via skins, extensions, default features, or the userChrome.css. I can understand not wanting to 'work' at customizing Firefox, but IMO its no work at all.

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Sure maybe FF2's interface isn't quite as souped up as IE7, but IE7 just feels totally out of place on XP and inefficient in its use of space.
There is no way I could use IE7 as my main browser after being on FF for over 2 years. It just doesn't work out for me. It has some nice updates, but its only just caught up to FF, it has a ways to go if its going to best it.

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Lantec

Join Date 07/2003

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I had been using Opera for the last couple years but I recently tried out FF2 and IE7.

I still prefer Opera to IE7. While they do have tabs, their implementation is very basic and overall it's no where near as configurable as Opera.

I do like the latest version of FF and am using it as I type this response. I still like Opera better overall...but FF seems to work better with this site.

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I've been a Firefox user for years and love it. IE7 is too heavy on the system resources
just like Norton.Firefox is quick and light.

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For IE7 users: Get IESpell and Inline Search extensions. More reasons not to use FF2.

Support Adblock also, the coder is a great guy and very accomodating to coding requests, bug reports etc and it does a better job than Adblock or Adblock Plus (remove's ad's from any app).

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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Support Adblock also, the coder is a great guy and very accomodating to coding requests, bug reports etc and it does a better job than Adblock or Adblock Plus (remove's ad's from any app).

Ad support sites. Blocking ads can kill revenue and thence the site you want to see. If you are going to block ads, find other ways to support those sites.

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How do they know these figures? No one asked me. I have been using IE ever since day one and I love the new IE7. Firefox is ok, but some websites do not work well with it, especially high security government sites. Firefox is still a simple minded browser for simple minded people, I guess

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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How do they know these figures? No one asked me.

Logging into a website gives that site a bit of info about the login, eg. IP address and browser type...

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Lantec

Join Date 07/2003

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Logging into a website gives that site a bit of info about the login, eg. IP address and browser type..

It could be worse than they think then, because Opera will allow you to set it to identify itself as IE.

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Obviously most people use IE6 over IE7. Why? Because they're too cheap to actually have a legal version of XP. Only reason.

IE7 annihilates every browser out there. Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6... whatever.

You're an ass.

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Firefox all the way!

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Interestingly...

Just this afternoon my girl's laptop got an 'auto-update' from MS including IE7. We decided to install it since recently IE6 had been problematic for her lately anyway.

Big mistake...

She's really into blogging right now so this was our particular criteria... and it failed bad...

For some reason Blogs that display just fine in Firefox, Opera, IE6, and even older versions of IE, failed miserably in IE7. Text and images completely sliding out of their container elements... off the page actually. Text in a lonnnggggg column only 6 or so characters wide... Completely unreadable.

Lasted about 3 minutes...

She asked me to let her try Firefox, so I installed it for her, showed her the basics/differences to what she was used to in IE6.

Her first comment was, and I kid you not, "This is soooo much faster..."

Sexy skins, tabs, innovative extensions, pretty toolbars... whatever.

First and foremost the browser has to work correctly at what it's supposed to do. And that's displaying web content.

Point of view from a decidedly non-techie personality:
IE7 - 0
FF2 - 1

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Tried all the others, but always come back to I.E

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FIREFOX GETS MY VOTE.AS A MATTER OF FACT ALL OR AT LEAST 90% 0F ALL OF MY STUDENTS USE FIREFOX AS WELL.

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ITS STILL A FREE COUNTRY AND MOST USE THAT ABILITY TO CHOOSE

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Ad support sites. Blocking ads can kill revenue and thence the site you want to see. If you are going to block ads, find other ways to support those sites.

No need to tell me. I probably support more sites than you through subscriptions. Inlcuding smaller ones such as gfxoasis, hardwaregeeks up to wincustomize and gamespot.

Ad blocking is useful on a lot of site. Only place that really whines about it is neowin.

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I used to use IE6 when I had to and FireFox for everything eles, but now that I have IE7 , I don't need FireFox anymore. I love IE7. It is so nice to have the tabs and the stabilty on IE7 is great.

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