PSoTD

Firefox

Web developers have to make sure their code works for the Firefox browser. I must admit to being surprised, in the past week I've run into two sites which don't work on Firefox, and that's really not a good idea. After all...

Firefox reaches 18 percent of corporate desktops

and...

So, based on XiTi and IWS’s statistics, roughly 1 in 5 Internet users prefer Firefox, assuming Internet and web usage are correlated.

Posted by PSoTD on Friday May 16, 2008 at 8:15am |
erick (www):
That's odd, unless it's a really old site. With certain aspects of a site, I've noticed Firefox may be a pixel or two off but the vast majority of stuff works the same.
5.16.2008 9:55am
PSoTD (mail) (www):
One of them was a javascript navigation that just didn't appear at all in Firefox, the other had pathways of \ rather than / which apparently Firefox didn't read.
5.16.2008 10:00am
Dee (mail):
I don't know if this is still true but at one time pretty recently our ISP REQUIRED IE to download their anti-virus applications and other security applications to which we were entitled by virtue of being a longtime ISP customer and paying high dollar for broadband connection every month. When you went to the download page the very first thing it said was IE is required for downloads. Fired off a VERY unhappy email to them.

I love Firefox and never use IE if I have a say so in the matter.

Our home computers got hacked HARD a little over a year ago when they all ran IE. It took me over a week to resurrect them from the dead. One of them, may it rest in peace, never really came all the way back from the dead and eventually went to that big computer graveyard in the sky.

After the other two were fully resuscitated, I put Firefox on them and deleted all the IE icons thereby forcing the rest of the family to use Firefox. IE is still there, the family just doesn't know how to find it. Thank the gods.

Hey, this ain't a computing democracy here at home! I'm the IT person here at home so they only get to use the hardware and software I approve! :)

Since moving to Firefox we have not been invaded even once. My regular security scans of the computers always come back absolutely clean.

Long live Firefox!
5.17.2008 5:57pm

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