Comments on: Browser Switchers - Fewer Than Expected

By: Blake Ross

Blake Ross — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:06:18 +0000

Let’s not forget that 11% is a staggeringly high number of people, not only given the timeframe, but given the enormous size of the market. So I would say that people *are* switching in large numbers.

By: Digital Evangelost

Digital Evangelost — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:18:13 +0000

Om I have to say that I am a happy user of Opera.

As well as easier to user than both FF and IE it is fast secure and in quite moments I can control it using voice.

Have been a happy user since my days using the PSION Netbook over five years.

By: Rob Leathern

Rob Leathern — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:13:21 +0000

I would love to see the cross-tabs of these users by sophistication level, years of online experience, AOL status… I’m betting that the (relatively speaking) online smarties are going for Firefox. I do think it may take quite a while for this to trickle down. In fact, I just this weekend convinced my wife to switch to Firefox. Many people still have no idea that it’s an issue - many I believe think its part of the Windows system, obviously.

We’ve also been working hard on some really cool Firefox plug-in features over at LinkedIn, including our JobsInsider which appears on job sites like Monster and lets you see who you’re connected to when you’re looking at a job listing. It’s definitely worth checking out if you are a big Firefox fan… (link)

By: T. Longren

T. Longren — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:24:26 +0000

Browsers: Fewer Switching

Fewer people than expected are actually switching to using something other than Internet Explorer for web browsing. I kept hearing all over the place that Firefox usage would grow to overtake IE. This may still happen, but it’s a long ways off…

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:54:34 +0000

The average PC user has no idea where their download sklnmklm8567vmvl.exe goes, let alone know how to install it.

By: Connected Internet - Broadband, Mobile and Gaming News Blog

Connected Internet - Broadband, Mobile and Gaming News Blog — Tue, 31 May 2005 21:47:41 +0000

Browser Switchers - Fewer Than Expected

Firefox is definitely my browser of choice because of its flexibility,
additional security and some cool features. However, it appears
that Joe Public doesn’t understand this. In a study by …

By: nathan steyn

nathan steyn — Tue, 31 May 2005 20:18:22 +0000

Better security is often put forward as the reason for the rapid growth of Firefox. These findings seem show that security may not be the main driver.

So now MSFT is working on IE 7.0 with the objective of … improving security (and offering tabbed browsing.) But neither of these is why I switched from IE 6.0.

FF is simply a better browser. IE 7.0 won’t win me back.

By: msteinbaugh

msteinbaugh — Tue, 31 May 2005 15:30:34 +0000

That’s exactly right. Most people still think their computer problems happen from malicious e-mails. The funny thing is watching a casual user run an installer program. Most don’t read the dialog boxes at all — they just click “next” to get through the installer as fast as possible. In the meantime, companies such as AOL and even Adobe have loaded the installer with bloat/spyware that will get installed on your machine unless you read the prompts carefully.