The spread of the fox

.. is it still spreading?

Now, I am blogging about browsers. Let's revisit an older post. In January of this year I posted about the spread of Firefox as reported by the XiTiMonitor. There are new numbers available. Let's compare the old and the new ones.

The old numbers

The new numbers

Overall we see a little increase in percentages, although some countries have dropped a little bit (Ireland, United Kingdom). This is mainly caused by the fact that XiTiMonitor now used measurements of an entire week and not just one Sunday as in the previous report. And in this report they also show that the share of Firefox usage in the weekend is slightly higher than during the week. Firefox support in companies is still a problem.

Other countries have gained a bit more than average, Romania, Ukraine.

Here is link to an English version of the XiTiMonitor Firefox survey in PDF.

So, is it spreading?

I think that the numbers in this latest survey are more to the point. (The previous 'Sunday-only' numbers were rightfully questioned by FirefoxMyths.com/.)

I think, it shows that Firefox has taken a steady beachhead in Europe. The trend will show in the next reports as we can then compare the same type of numbers.

Tags:

• firefox
• XiTiMonitor
• spread
• europe

Is browser A better than browser B?

.. or is it poor website coding?

Sometimes a small post can trigger a comment and sometimes a small comment can trigger a post.

What is this about?

Yesterday I wrote a small post about a website that collecting a million reasons to use Firefox. I thought it is a funny site. I do not think that all these reasons are based on facts or whatever. Just plain fun. Period.

However

Some people's toes are always stepped upon. I was just showing a random list of quotes. And I received a comment.

Anonymous

The safest Browser is actually Opera. As for the other reasons, get the facts:
http://www.firefoxmyths.com

Anyhow, I do not think that that site mentioned shows the 'facts'. Yes, it does adds a grain of salt to most 'myths' although not all the myths are myths.

As a web designer / developer I was triggered by the so called myths about W3C Standards compatibility. IE would support those better because it shows more sites 'correctly' than Firefox. This is a very subjective approach. If according to the code as described by the W3C Standards a menu should be below the content and thus be unclickable in Firefox and if IE uses another interpretation and shows the menu on the left side fully functional: which browser is better?. I think that the web developer did a very poor job. Do not blame the messenger. It could very well be that the developer developed for and tested in IE only.

Bottom line

I am quite fond of Firefox. I have Opera installed as well and IE 6 and IE 7 and Flock and Lynx. Yes, I am developer. I always start out with designing in Firefox and then see if it looks good in the other browsers. From there I move on to an Apple and test it in various browsers there as well. My principle: Design for the best, test for the rest.

I have become addicted to Firefox and a list of extensions. I have always found that Opera was a bit too different in GUI and I never felt completely at ease on first sight. And the ads that existed in previous versions just put me off. When Opera dropped those I was already addicted to Firefox. Now I don't see enough reasons to switch.

Tags:

• firefox
• IE
• Opera
• browser
• war

Blogging and workload

.. a strange interaction

This week on A List Apart Ryan Carson wrote an interesting article: The Four-Day Week Challenge. In it he describes that he and his wife used to work long hours five or more days a week and never really had the feeling they finished anything. His wife proposed to work less; four days a week and limit the number of hours. This seems strange, but it worked for them. Read the article for the details.

Now my situation

We are at this moment working towards the release at the end of this month of a completely new web site. Normally one would expect that during those final weeks every developer is working franticly to reach the date, fixing bugs and adding the inevitable last minute extra feature.

But no, not here. It is oh so quiet on the western and eastern front.

Blogging

During these doldrums of work I have virtually stopped blogging. (I have forced myself today in to writing some stuff again).

Apparently, when the workload is less I can not seem to find time or inspiration to wrote for my blog. This seems weird.

Must be a great theory and an article in this phenomenon.

Update

Since writing this post I am blogging like a waterfall again. Hmmm, weird, considering that I still have a negative workload.

Tags:

• workload

You have been merged

.. goodbye?

Today the insurnce company I work for has merged with another insurnace company. This was already in the works for some time, so not really a shocker.

The implications will probably felt the most in health insurance portion of our part of the merged company as the other company was much bigger in that area. I feel relatively safe being in the e-businnes department for now. But YNCT what the future may bring. They might decide to relocate the head office in which I work.

We'll see.

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• merger

Firefox? Why use Firefox?

.. you need a reason?

Anyone out there still does not get it: why use Firefox for browsing the web? You nee a reason? What about a million reasons?

some random contributions

• Its said to be safest
• It's being actively developed.
• It's Microsoft-free
• Itis modifiable
• at first the safety...then STUMBLE
• fully customizable
• i think the logo is sooo cute
• Extensions!!!
• Im takin back the web?
• because i like a browser that crashes randomly whenever
• CSS Compliance
• It's free and was built for Linux. Why not?
• Adblock + Flashblock + Abe Vagoda Status = Firefox wins

Mine is #1978.

Add some more.

Tags:

• firefox
• fun