Those who know, use Firefox

giulio · giulio #1 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 08:47 AM

http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104057

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"Firefox users on isoHunt have now overtaken IE users, and I see the
trend continuing in more Firefox adoption. The less reliance on
standard non-compliant and malware-friendly IE, the better."

Firefox
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.19%

Internet Explorer
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.07%

Opera
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 3.79%

Safari
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 2.91%

It can be hypothesized that users of this type of site are very smart and concerned about security. That being true, these numbers tell how people feel about security implementations in their browsers!
Surely a huge population of this site is also just people looking for pirated media, and have no clue about security. I wonder how the numbers would be more affected if all of the users knew of the differences in IE and FF.

iRye · iRye #2 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 09:48 AM

I can't stand FF. In OS X, at least.

cwa107 · cwa107 #3 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 09:54 AM

I like Firefox very much and it is the only browser I use at home on all of my machines, but I like it because of the way it handles RSS feeds and some of the plug-ins.

I found this site a few months back and found it very interesting as I was always under the assumption that FireFox was more secure than IE.

Zoolook · Zoolook #4 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 10:08 AM

Exactly, ISO-hunt is not a great indicator is it.

Anyway, Camino FTW!

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Originally Posted by cwa107

I found this site a few months back and found it very interesting as I was always under the assumption that FireFox was more secure than IE.

Firefox is more secure. You don't really believe that MS fanboy drivel do you? I saw that in another thread on another discussion board about 6 months ago... many of the claims and stats are simply untrue.

giulio · giulio #5 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 11:04 AM

isoHunt it a great indicator... for isoHunt. You can't use it as a blanketing global indicator. But you can make assumptions of the type of people who use it... of what they know about the net and their experience level... and then see what browser they prefer. I thought it was pretty interesting.

Zoolook · Zoolook #6 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by giulio

isoHunt it a great indicator... for isoHunt. You can use it as a blanketing global indicator. But you can make assumptions of the type of people who use it... of what they know about the net and their experience level... and then see what browser they prefer. I thought it was pretty interesting.

I just don't think you can extrapolate browser useage from a single site, especially one that is used for such a specific reason.

I don't think isoHunt necessarily indicates smarter or more security conscious web users either. I think that hypothesis could be shown to be flawed.

mac57 · mac57 #7 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 01:33 PM

Folks like me, who simultaneously run multiple platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows) probably prefer Firefox because it is the same across all three, and synchronizing bookmarks is simple too.

DSCole312 · DSCole312 #8 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 02:17 PM

I like Firefox mainly because of the running spell-check when filling out online forms (such as when writing this). Does the Mac version of Safari have this feature? I have the Windows beta version, and it doesn't seem to.

Zoolook · Zoolook #9 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSCole312

I like Firefox mainly because of the running spell-check when filling out online forms (such as when writing this). Does the Mac version of Safari have this feature? I have the Windows beta version, and it doesn't seem to.

It's an OS X feature, not a Firefox one.

TheCustomer99 · TheCustomer99 #10 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 03:02 PM

Firefox is nice, but I prefer Safari simply because it opens faster.

raptorkid700 · raptorkid700 #11 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 03:04 PM

i prefer fire fox cause i can type the name while it loads. it never loads fastter for me.

vicariousgeorge · vicariousgeorge #12 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zoolook

It's an OS X feature, not a Firefox one.

Actually no, it's definitely a firefox feature.

amrk47 · amrk47 #13 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 03:21 PM

if you use firefox for more than an hour it stops responding and you have to force quit it and open it back up again

il stick with safari u

goobimama · goobimama #14 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Actually no, it's definitely a firefox feature.

While it is a Firefox feature, when it comes to OS X and Safari, the spellcheck is provided by OS X's unified dictionary. That is, the same dictionary for Pages, textedit, safari and such. Windows doesn't have a dictionary, so firefox has to use its own dictionary.

Not sure whether OS X's firefox uses the system dictionary or it's own...

DSCole312 · DSCole312 #15 (**permalink**)

10-12-2007, 03:42 PM

Nice to know the Mac version of Safari has spell-check. Also nice to know there's just one master dictionary on Mac OS X instead of multiple dictionaries that contradict each other.... Reason #497 I'm looking forward to getting a Mac.

giulio #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 19, 2007 Location: NY USA Posts: 1,813 Mac Specs: iMac 5.1 \| iMac 7.1 \| iPod Touch \| iPod Nano	10-12-2007, 11:04 AM isoHunt it a great indicator... for isoHunt. You can't use it as a blanketing global indicator. But you can make assumptions of the type of people who use it... of what they know about the net and their experience level... and then see what browser they prefer. I thought it was pretty interesting. Last edited by giulio; 10-12-2007 at 03:00 PM.
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mac57 #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 29, 2006 Location: St. Somewhere Posts: 4,547 Mac Specs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, 120 GB SSD, 500 GB HDD	10-12-2007, 01:33 PM Folks like me, who simultaneously run multiple platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows) probably prefer Firefox because it is the same across all three, and synchronizing bookmarks is simple too. My Macs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz 8 Core, Power Macintosh 7500/100 My iStuff: 32 GB iPhone 4, 30 GB iPod Video, 16 GB iPod Touch My OS': Mac OS X Tiger, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS 8.6, openSUSE 10.3, Win XP I was on the Mac-Forums honor roll for September 2007
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iRye #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 01, 2007 Location: Cow Town, Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,991 Mac Specs: PowerBook G4 15 inch 1.5 GHz, iMac	10-12-2007, 09:48 AM I can't stand FF. In OS X, at least.
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DSCole312 #8 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 26, 2007 Location: New York City Posts: 77 Mac Specs: Current iPhone and iPod owner, Future Mac Owner	10-12-2007, 02:17 PM I like Firefox mainly because of the running spell-check when filling out online forms (such as when writing this). Does the Mac version of Safari have this feature? I have the Windows beta version, and it doesn't seem to.
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raptorkid700 #11 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 02, 2007 Location: long island!! Posts: 134 Mac Specs: macbook 2.16ghz,2 gigs ram, 120gigs--ipod nano red 4 gig--ipod vid 30 gig black-- rip macbook	10-12-2007, 03:04 PM i prefer fire fox cause i can type the name while it loads. it never loads fastter for me.
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amrk47 #13 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 17, 2007 Posts: 213 Mac Specs: Silver MB 2Ghz Core2Duo 2GB RAM	10-12-2007, 03:21 PM if you use firefox for more than an hour it stops responding and you have to force quit it and open it back up again il stick with safari u
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DSCole312 #15 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 26, 2007 Location: New York City Posts: 77 Mac Specs: Current iPhone and iPod owner, Future Mac Owner	10-12-2007, 03:42 PM Nice to know the Mac version of Safari has spell-check. Also nice to know there's just one master dictionary on Mac OS X instead of multiple dictionaries that contradict each other.... Reason #497 I'm looking forward to getting a Mac.
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