Firefox: August 2006 Archives
Which browsers are being used and which OS is popular?
I'm always interested in this kind of information, but finding a good source for it is far from easy.
For my own amusement I thought I'd compare two sites I manage for the year to date.
The sites I choose were this one and search.ie and the results are hardly surprising:
Mneylon.com Browsers:
Mneylon.com Operating Systems
Mneylon.com Connection Speed
Compare that to:
Search.ie Browsers
Search.ie Operating Systems
Search.ie Connection Speed
As could be expected this site attracts "geekier" types, so they're predominantly on broadband and using alternatives to Internet Explorer. A large number of them don't use windows as their OS.
Search.ie, on the other hand, is dominated by Windows users who use Internet Explorer and are on dialup.
What use is this info?
Not a that much use really, but I could use it to tweak search.ie so that it was more 56k friendly, while I could work on the assumption that anybody who made it here won't notice if I've posted a couple of photos, or whatever :)
Mneylon.com Operating Systems
Mneylon.com Connection Speed
Compare that to:
Search.ie Browsers
Search.ie Operating Systems
Search.ie Connection Speed
As could be expected this site attracts "geekier" types, so they're predominantly on broadband and using alternatives to Internet Explorer. A large number of them don't use windows as their OS.
Search.ie, on the other hand, is dominated by Windows users who use Internet Explorer and are on dialup.
What use is this info?
Not a that much use really, but I could use it to tweak search.ie so that it was more 56k friendly, while I could work on the assumption that anybody who made it here won't notice if I've posted a couple of photos, or whatever :)
For the last few days I've been having issues with Firefox on Ubuntu.
Browser windows / tabs become unresponsive for no obvious reason until I end up having to restart it... Flock, on the other hand, is quite fast and responsive.
Is this a common issue or do I have a buggy or memory hogging plugin installed?
I think I'll be removing all the plugins this evening to see what happens, but one thing is for sure Flock is becoming more and more attractive!
Browser windows / tabs become unresponsive for no obvious reason until I end up having to restart it... Flock, on the other hand, is quite fast and responsive.
Is this a common issue or do I have a buggy or memory hogging plugin installed?
I think I'll be removing all the plugins this evening to see what happens, but one thing is for sure Flock is becoming more and more attractive!
The MSN adcenter (sic) should be usable in Firefox as of August 5th.
MSN is a business, so they obviously realised that they couldn't alienate users.
It still isn't of much use to advertisers interested in targetting Irish MSN users though ....
