Are you viewing this with IE or Firefox (or something else)? • Non-Gaming • Science & Technology • Eurogamer.net

Carlo 3 Nov 2005 16:37:33 21,801 posts
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Well, if you're in the UK, it's a 95% chance you're seeing this in IE.

11.5% of the world now use firefox to view the web.

It's increasing! Download it (it's less than 5MB and the link is above you lazy bast) and give it a go yourself... If you tend to the 'seedier' side of the web this is essential

the article

Edited by Carlo at 16:44:44 03-11-2005

spindizzy 3 Nov 2005 16:40:36 7,755 posts
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Safari or Firefox (both have things that annoy me, so when I get fed up with one I switch ... then switch back etc. One day maybe I'll find a browser that suits me)

ssuellid 3 Nov 2005 16:42:16 19,142 posts
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Avant - fast, free and works with all sites I want.

Mr_Dave 3 Nov 2005 16:43:48 496 posts
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Camino FTW! The only problem is that it tends to die on the massive flash adverts down the side and top. I've had to edit my userContent.css to remedy this.

MetalDog 3 Nov 2005 16:45:53 24,076 posts
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Opera at home, FF here. Used to be FF all the way, but it's having serious issues with a lot of pages these days and is starting to suffer more from popups.

I honestly don't understand how anyone can bear IE for general browsing with all the ads aimed at it - it's alright for the odd page here and there.

palmoff 3 Nov 2005 16:46:37 502 posts
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Either firefox or opera depending on my mood and speed of connection.

ssuellid 3 Nov 2005 16:50:56 19,142 posts
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BTW WebSideStory were reporting Firefox market share of less than 8% a month ago - they are another web analyst.

Carlo 3 Nov 2005 16:51:44 21,801 posts
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rauper, what's the percentages of browsers for EG? You guys write/test EG with FF right?

Jonsend 3 Nov 2005 16:51:56 823 posts
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Firefox

Carlo 3 Nov 2005 16:57:55 21,801 posts
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I can't wait for 1.5 to come out. Why? Auto-update. Yes this may be abused, or not trusted, but think about Safari; it's always up to date, or at least is after a few clicks. With FF 1.5 I can leave my Mom's computer alone knowing that her browser will be the safest out there as any vulns will be dealth with/installed ASAP. I see this as being a MAJOR improvement over MS, which last I checked, forced you to jump thru hoops to keep IE up to date.

Gambit 3 Nov 2005 16:58:34 357 posts
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firefox

Deleted user 3 November 2005 17:01:57

Using IE7.

Wobbler 3 Nov 2005 17:02:15 181 posts
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Firefox 1.5RC1

Aretak 3 Nov 2005 17:05:15 10,391 posts
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Firefox 1.0.7.

Carlo 3 Nov 2005 17:09:02 21,801 posts
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FF 1.0.7 as well... FTW!

jellyhead 3 Nov 2005 17:12:55 24,355 posts
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FF 1.0.7.

W1nnag3! \0/

mal 3 Nov 2005 17:33:49 29,326 posts
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Carlo wrote:
rauper, what's the percentages of browsers for EG? You guys write/test EG with FF right?

I thought FF was their main test platform, because it's what they use anyway. Hence the bugs in/when viewing with Opera.

I use Mozilla Suite here. Been using it too long to switch to Firefox, but I'm sure it's very nice.

Shrimp 3 Nov 2005 17:38:13 1,081 posts
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Avant... I like the tabbing system

mr-rick 3 Nov 2005 17:49:04 1,044 posts
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blizeH wrote:
Firefox 1.0.7.

Still baffles me as to why people use IE.

Why though?

I use IE, not through any consious decision, just that's what's always on my computer and it seems to do the job.

I reckon most computer users aren't even aware there are alternatives to IE so it's surely not surprising most people use it.

I've heard of all things like Firefox and mozilla but never tried them. Are they genuinely better or is a big part of the attraction simply that they are not microsoft products?

Treze 3 Nov 2005 18:00:11 332 posts
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Firefox

Wobble 3 Nov 2005 18:06:11 1,028 posts
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firefox 1.0.7 4tw!

however I force my entire company to use IE6 because I can't be arsed re-writing the intranet to make it work properly with Firefox. And I define european corporate browser standards. (evil grin)

(the problems aren't actually with firefox, it's cause I've had to cludge so much stuff to make it look right in IE that when a browser actually following the standards properly comes along it messes stuff up

)

(oh and firefox can't bypass proxy servers for local addresses properly for some reason, it still manages to get authentication stripped by our poxy server even for stuff on the lan

)

Wobble 3 Nov 2005 18:09:41 1,028 posts
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mr rick wrote:
I've heard of all things like Firefox and mozilla but never tried them. Are they genuinely better or is a big part of the attraction simply that they are not microsoft products?

get firefox, get the flashblock and adblock plugins, stick a nice skin on it. Wave goodbye to 95% of annoying website content. Great for browsing at work as you can use wildcards to remove almost all images from sites, like forums etc, get rid of avatars and sigs so it looks like a possibly work relevant bit of text you've spent all day reading...

/whistles innocently

pauleyc 3 Nov 2005 18:14:31 4,548 posts
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Wobble wrote:
...get rid of avatars and sigs so it looks like a possibly work relevant bit of text you've spent all day reading...

That pretty much sums up my day at work. :-)

EG + FF 1.0.7 + Adblock + Eurofix 0.5a - a match made in heaven.

BartonFink 3 Nov 2005 18:14:55 35,268 posts
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Firefox 1.0.7

Sometimes IE
other times Mozilla

mrharvest 3 Nov 2005 18:49:19 5,718 posts
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Another forum with a couple of hundred users I'm on had Firefox go past the 50% mark recently.

I use Safari. I hate it dearly for not letting me decide what's good for me but compared to the pile of poo Firefox for OS X is it's the obvious choice.

gerg 3 Nov 2005 18:54:06 880 posts
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I use AOL most of the time, but I sometimes use IE as well.

glo 3 Nov 2005 19:05:33 3,797 posts
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firefox v1.0.6

The-Button 3 Nov 2005 19:17:03 799 posts
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I've been using Firefox for the past few weeks, was using IE before that. The only difference that has been of benefit to me so far has been tabbed browsing.