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What Browser Do You Use?

Posted by Chris Leckness on March 24, 2008 – 7:14 am
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Sure I could consult Google Analytics on this to really find out and I will in the next couple days, but I wanted to see what the live readers have to say. I was reading the feeds this morning and James Kendrick over at JKontheRun was surprised to see that he has more OSX OS readers than Vista. My guess on this poll is that IE will have 60%, Firefox 35%, and all the rest 5%…

What browser do you user?

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  • pcgamez
    Firefox all the way. Chris, those stats are probably taking into account a lot of 1-time visitors as opposed to proper users of the site.

    Tried Firefox 3 - Its great. Can't wait for the final.
  • Fr. Ignatius
    I use Safari, but I use Firefox when a window does not show up correctly (which is fewer and fewer with each update from Apple).

    One person asked how the site looks on Safari. Well, it looks nice.

    Unworthy Servant of God,

    Ignatius - priestmonk
  • There are a lot of surprises really...

    According to Google Analytics, these are the browsers used to visit.

    Mobilitysite.com
    IE - 52%
    FF - 39%
    Safari - 4%
    Opera - 3%

    Aximsite.com
    IE - 54%
    FF - 40%
    Safari - .5%
    Opera - 4%
  • doogald
    I have to say that I am shocked to see Safari at 15%. I suppose that some of that is iPhone, but 15% is about two to three times what I would have expected to see. Apple is obviously making inroads these days.

    Of course I am sure that you have webstats showing browser and OS percentages.
  • doogald
    It looks fine to me. Though I suppose that I ought to open it in FF to see it there first...

    Just checked. It looks the same in Safari as it does in FF. The javascript menus are all working fine.

    When I tried to answer this poll on the front page, it never responded, but when I opened the permalink it did work. That could just have been an issue at the time, however.
  • Doog! How does this new layout render in safari for you? I am looking into this for a reader that said it wasn't so hot.
  • doogald
    I use Safari most of the time these days. I used to use FF all of the time, but I kept having issues and found that Safari was faster and more stable (with most sites). I keep Camino around for those sites that do not work with Safari nicely, plus I have FF 3 beta 4 installed (and I do have IE on the Parallels XP install if I need it.)
  • Julie
    I probably use Firefox 75% of the time and IE 25%. I've used Opera on my desktop, but don't really like it much - it seems slow to me.

    On my pocket pc, I probably use Opera 75% and IE 25%.
  • Stephen S Schmidt
    At home I use Firefox. At work, I am switching between FF for U3 & Opera for U3. On my Tilt, I use opera mini.

    I'm thinking I like the Opera suite, but just can't get past FF/TB+lightning.
  • gasusan2005
    Functionality of firefox works for me..I use it on XP and Vista with no problems... and add ons...some must haves that I can't live without (I love Foxmarks)

    I'm glad to see so many Firefox users...maybe "firefox posts" aren't as OT as was thought ....
  • Fr. Ignatius
    I have been trying to vote for Safari (for that is what I use), but the "loading" keeps going around and around. After about 10 - 15 minutes, I got tired of it and decided the poll wasn't that important. The problem then is, is the poll accurate if Safari is not being tallied in the poll.

    Unworthy Servant of God,

    Ignatius - priestmonk
  • tjasko (Taylor)
    You know, I'm really glad this was started on this site. There is a big frustration on which browser to use. I have used IE, FF, Safari, and Opera. I have to say all of them are great browsers, but I really like Firefox the best. It has fast downloading speeds, it looks really good, and to sum it all up, it works on every OS created. Actually, I'm in Linux now, and the only browser that I like is Firefox... But hey, I use Firefox while I'm in Vista/XP. I tried it out for a day, and I never went back to any other browser. I'm not saying that the others are bad, it's just the functionality of them. Firefox suits me best... I see no formating issue with Firefox. I even tried to convert some of my friends over to Firefox, it doesn't seem that they will budge. But, you can use what ever that suits you. If Microsoft made IE for Linux, I would try it... But, I highly doubt that will ever happen... Just my thoughts... It's funny, now I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird too. Chris L., you should make a poll on what e-mail client people use... That would be interesting... I wonder how many people are using Outlook or Windows Mail (Vista)....


    Taylor
  • Fred, Check now. I think I was fixing that issue as you posted :)

    I use a combo of IE and Firefox now. I have been pretty set on IE for the longest, but a skype plugin was crashing IE7 a bunch and it was frustrating me so bad I started using FF. Now that I have indefied this Skype plug in as the culprit, I am using IE more again. But, since trying FF for that time, I personally see it 1/2 dozen one way, 6 the other.
  • It's really not true anymore that you have to use IE instead of FF. The only exceptions that have caught me lately are Windows Update and the NCAA March Madness On Demand site. "I can't use Firefox because it doesn't work at my bank" was a valid excuse a year ago, but not now.

    There is a Safari issue on Vista, but not a huge one - here's a screenshot link.
  • c1oudrs
    Opera 8.65 for Windows Mobile (2211) tweaked to show desktop pc,--can't sse the results/may be reporting issues also. :)

    I've been doing over 90% of my browsing with a windows mobile device for months on an athena. Including visiting mobility site every day. I download books, music, do email, and shop over a dozen one-day deal sites.
  • badersk
    I just neve saw the use in firefox. It would never do all the things I wanted to do. Alot of sites that I pay bills on (I understand there is a plug-in now) would not work with firefox.
  • uzziah0
    I would not be surprised if Firefox wins, since mot tech savvy people are reading here.
  • Wow. I am really surprised at the Firefox votes so far.
  • Ill have to take a look at that one later.
  • ps. I had a report of formatting issues in safari, can someone throw me a screenshot. Thanks.
  • tasman
    for the PC (WinXP), that would be "TheWorld 2.1" (http://www.ioage.com/en/index.htm), IE based, fast, well featured, skinable.

    for the PPC, mostly PIE, but occasionally Opera.
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