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Jeremy Reimer

This is from my own stats for pegasus3d.com.

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HitScan · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:41 am Post subject:

Bunch of reasons. People are lazy. Even if they go to all the trouble of downloading a different browser and installing it, still lazy. I'm like 3-4 versions behind on my laptop, but more up to date on the machines that I always use.

Plus, not everyone uses FF just because "It's not IE." I honestly would have no reason to use it if not for the fact that middle-click is open a new window and if I knew of an IE sidebar like Sage (RSS checker, awesome.) I don't count browser "shells" as real options so avant and maxithon or whatever were right out from the start.

What's the spread like on the IE side? I don't suppose they're all on 6? Wink

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OscarWilde · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:59 am Post subject:

I use Firefox a lot, and I like to test and help if I can. Remember at one time Safari was not the greatest browser (relative to Firefox). Now that Safari is a lot better, and that I can't live without spell check, I use safari more often. However, I still test out Firefox's various builds (trunk and branch) and see how OSY (plus other forums) looks on it. Just helping out the Firefox team in my own little way.

By the way:

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:

HitScan · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:02 am Post subject:

OscarWilde · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:03 am Post subject:

To how Firefox development is going: The Burning Edge gives a decent summary and frequent updates. Plus links to various types of builds: optimized for processor types, branch, trunks, nightlies, hourlies, etc., etc.
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OscarWilde · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:07 am Post subject:

OscarWilde · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:07 am Post subject:

What are the safari stats?

Edit: Oh, and don't forget people change the identifier for their non-IE browsers to IE 5/6. I can understand because some websites say I need IE before I can go further and view the amateur hand held camera shot porn. How lame is that? Gah. Usually, as I despise web developers like that I ignore the website. So I'm not one of the people faking IE at all.
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HitScan · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:20 am Post subject:

OscarWilde · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:48 am Post subject:

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:11 am Post subject:

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:11 am Post subject:

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

OMG DOUBLE POST!!!111
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Harbinger · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:25 am Post subject:

lewis · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject:

I use various random versions of the full Mozilla on Irix and Linux and FreeBSD so some of those would be me. And I don't give a flying fuck about security, life's too short Smile

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Jay · **Ex OSYer** Captain Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 1589

It's worth mentioning that IE 6.0 has been out a VERY long time so the comparison isn't really fair especially since Windows XP shipped with IE 6.0 by default many years ago. It would be more interesting if you could tell what percentage of IE 6.0 users had all of the current hotfixes installed.

I think part of the problem with upgrading FireFox is that its a pain in the ass. The automated update notification works but then I've got to download an installer and screw with that. Whereas with Windows Update its a nice integrated process that pretty much does all the work for me.

lewis · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

Speaking of Windows Update.

While I've got automatic important update-without-asking shit turned on (duh) I hadn't actually visited windowsupdate.com to get the applications and stuff updates for ages. I did so yesterday and ticked the boxes for all kinds of cool stuff including a new nVIDIA graphics card driver, which I didn't even know you could get from there. So it installed it all and blah, and rebooted... in 640x480 AND FOUR BIT COLOUR.

Fine I thought. I'll change it back.

THE SLIDER DIDN'T GO ABOVE 800x600. And if I set 32bit depth it pinged back to 640x480. Which looks QUITE SILLY on a widescreen laptop.

Fine I thought. I'll get the latest drivers from nVIDIA. So I did. The installer refused to believe I had an nVIDIA card.

FINE.

I hit Update Driver and browsed to the new driver. Nope. I browsed to an older driver I was using before. Okaaay... reboot... NOTHING CHANGED.

MOTHERFUCKER.

I had to hit uninstall driver, reboot to get a generic VGA adapter, and install an older nVIDIA driver. Took about an hour.

THINGS LIKE THIS REALLY PISS ME OFF.

On the upside the Synaptics driver updated fine... oh wait, no it didn't, I had to change all the settings back to how I like them. But at least the mouse doesn't jump over to the scrollbar when you use the scroll area on the side of the trackpad any more. That was really silly and made me think it was doing something HORRIBLE to make it work.

I need OS X on this thing...
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Jay · **Ex OSYer** Captain Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 1589

Never download drivers from Windows Update unless you were planning on reinstalling anyway. Especially not video drivers (the others at least have a chance of working).

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject:

MasterOfTheHat · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject:

HitScan · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject:

Harbinger · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject:

Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

What about us Opera users? We represented too?
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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: