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    • CommentAuthorainslie
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2008 edited by ainslie on the 27th May 2008 at 17:58:27 EDT
     
    I've just be checking out my website stats and 44% of users are using Internet Explorer.

    What's worse is that 52% of those are still using IE6.

    Spread the word to everybody you know to upgrade browser. Even better change to a proper browser. bakie
    • CommentAuthorfernbap
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2008
     
    funny, my website stats shows 60% firefox. Anyway, everyone should get rid of that piece of crap...
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      CommentAuthoricyone
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2008
     
    It's like pulling teeth just to get my family to stop using aol (aol uses IE for their guts). But I'm slowly having luck by showing all the ways the internet is more enjoyable without aol. I would be happy if they used IE7 compared to aol then it is a smaller step to FF shocked
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      CommentAuthorgreg
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2008 edited by greg on the 27th May 2008 at 20:21:08 EDT
     
    one of my sites which is likely to get a decent cross section of the internet community shows 64% of visitors use internet explorer, with 32% of those users still on ie6. so ie6 is beginning to, very slowly, fade away. perhaps a little more disturbing is the 0.36% who are still using ie5.x - surely they would have upgraded by now!

    off topic, but now that i am looking through these stats there are a lot people living in the past... i see visitors still on windows 95/98, 7.29% of visitors use 16-bit colours, and there are still some people using 640x480.
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    resolution still goes that low!?!?! jk. but rlly.... WOW!!
    • CommentAuthorTrin
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2008
     
    Sales Site: 70% Explorer - 47% of those = IE7
    Personal Site: 52% Explorer - 55% of those = IE7
    Semi-Techie Site: 41% Explorer - 60% of those = IE7

    ....and yeah, some are still using 640x480 shocked
    • CommentAuthorRob
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2008
     
    I don't think it will work to be honest, I considered putting a big "you're using an outdated version of IE" link on my site, but whilst testing a facebook application I was developing, I found that if you use outdated versions facebook has a rather obvious message at the top telling you so and considering the amount of people that use facebook and how many people still use outdated versions I can only assume that the message simply doesn't get through to these people.

    My site is also aimed primarily at the sorts of people that use facebook, hence my decision to develop an application for it.

    Anywho, out of interest I don't seem to fair toooo badly IE6 wise

    MS Internet Explorer - 68 %
    Firefox - 26.7 %
    Safari/Opera - Under 2%
    Everything else - Under 1%

    IE7 - 51 %
    IE6 - 16.9 %
    Firefox - 26.7 %

    What's really strange is that i've only had 72 people use IE6.5 and that's out of 300k so far this month, why did nobody touch it :S
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2008
     
    Rob: I don't think that IE6.5 has a very large install base.
    • CommentAuthorUrgenus
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2008
     
    I use IE6 in one my computers, because it's the one and only lightweight "fairly modern" browser around for XP...

    In my other computers i use mainly FF (Only because it is easiest to backup) If someone makes "mozBackup" type program for Opera, then i offcourse would use opera.
    • CommentAuthorainslie
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2008
     
    Posted By: UrgenusI use IE6 in one my computers, because it's the one and only lightweight "fairly modern" browser around for XP...


    I'd use Firefox, Opera, Safari or anything rather than IE6.

    But each to their own. bakie
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    Posted By: UrgenusI use IE6 in one my computers, because it's the one and only lightweight "fairly modern" browser around for XP...

    IE7 works on XP, as do Opera and Firefox 2. Not to mention the slightly more obscure browsers like Flock. Not quite why you'd rather stick with IE6 and it's memory leaks than choose from a selection of others!
    • CommentAuthorainslie
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2008
     
    Designers really ought to be brave enough to stop hacking designs to work with IE6. Eventually everyone would have to stop using it when the web didn't work any more.
    • CommentAuthorUrgenus
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008
     
    Posted By: ainslie
    Posted By: Urgenus I use IE6 in one my computers, because it's the one and only lightweight "fairly modern" browser around for XP...


    I'd use Firefox, Opera, Safari or anything rather than IE6.

    But each to their own. bakie


    I would use IE7 or Opera with that machine, but even those are too heavy for my X21. Superheavyweight FF is offcource out off the question.
    • CommentAuthorUrgenus
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008
     
    Posted By: Christopher Not quite why you'd rather stick with IE6


    Beacuse it's just enough lighweight browser for my X21 (700Mhz+256+winXP).

    In my other computers i use that memory eating monster called FireFox =) And only because, it's easy to backup with MozBackup.
    • CommentAuthorfernbap
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008
     
    In my other computers i use that memory eating monster called FireFox =) And only because, it's easy to backup with MozBackup.


    What you don't realize is that IE is already eating memory even when it's not running, because part of it belongs to windows core - and that is one reason why windows will never be a secure system (the other reason being MS Office, and ... windows)
    • CommentAuthorUrgenus
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008
     
    Posted By: fernbap
    In my other computers i use that memory eating monster called FireFox =) And only because, it's easy to backup with MozBackup.


    What you don't realize is that IE is already eating memory even when it's not running, because part of it belongs to windows core


    I do realize that. But if i start some memory eating monster, it wont take away the need for IE in windows (ps. the core don,t need IE, only the windowing...)

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    And actuallu whole windows plus IE running some webpages is alltogether less than memory needed for monster called FF (all 14processes including IE and old flash are taking about 70Megs only. If i need to start avast for some reason, it will take about 20megs more. and if i need to activate XP's firewall thats 10-20 megs more)
    • CommentAuthorfernbap
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008
     
    actually, i have a small partition on my disk with TinyXP Rev.6. TinyXP is a stripped-down windows XP without IE, outlook, Windows Media Player and MS Office DLLs. It's much more stable, more secure, eats less RAM and is much faster. That is by far the best windows version ever.
    • CommentAuthorUrgenus
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008
     
    I didn't like TinyXP, never get that ideology behind TinyXP...

    They stripped away nececery things like PCMCIA Drivers etc, and IE but left some stupid stuff like messenger and directx.

    By far the best windows version ever is Fundamentals and XP is the second best.

    Fundamentals takes about 40megs memory when running if installed the lighweight version (No OE, no MediaPlayer, no messenger, no DirectX) Only bad thing is that Microsoft never did make other languages to fundamentals, so its only english =(
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008 edited by gnome on the 31st May 2008 at 09:42:19 EDT
     
    I use my own version of XP, and it run pretty fast.
    Urgenus: are you using service pack 3? It puts go faster stripes on windows xp. I'm certain that there is a fast and obscure browser you could use, although I have used Internet Explorer 6 on an older machine for the same reasons.
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      CommentAuthorgreg
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2008
     
    ff runs fine on my eee under xp with 256mb ram..

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