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Story: Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
Posted by: Al Johnson (Thursday 23 June 2005, 3:51 PM)
This is something I have suspected for some time. I asked Onestat about their methods for compiling data on marketshare and they just did not bother responding. Their web site claims that it uses methods that do not involve just downloads, but they did not specify. I have about 7 browsers installed on my PC, including 3 IE shells, IE, Firefox and Opera. There is one IE shell that I use most of the time. If I am using an IE shell, is that using IE? There's a fine line there, but I'd say "No", but I am pretty certain that their mthodology will count my shells as IE.
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Story: Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
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Souinds sorta like sour grapes, if you ask me. p!ss artiste -
ahahahahaha ... let'me laughing ...
The guys... jimich -
Most stats providers count 'users' not 'hits' or a... Gids Goldberg
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95% of these 'counters' work by Javascript, n... Cian Duffy
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What a bunch of sour grapes from Opera.
I wrote my... Franki
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Opera Rocks...its fast and doesn't crash or d... Anonymous
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"Don't knock it for the ads -- they are... Thorsten Roggendorf -
Opera is a lame piece of junk, and the whining fro... Mike
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I do use Firefox, a few reasons to that : speed, n... nw
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Opera has excellent features, like mouse gest... howard devore
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Opera and Firefox are neck-and-neck. FIrefox does... Jeff
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Well, I have seen all browsers, like news, BB... Anonymous
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I find it ironic, since I'm reading this through m... spaceghoti
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This shoulds like a load of FUD to me -- more like... Chris Smith
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I feel that the author has put it in the wrong way... Pallab De
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This is something I have suspected for some time.... Al Johnson -
This is a low blow. IE fall guilty of far more mi... Anonymous
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Opera Rules. They invented "tabbed" browsing... Jack
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We're all on the same team here, aren't we? Anythi... Anonymous
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As long as you arn't using IE what's the big... Wade Harper
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Fact: Firefox is downloaded ~250,000 times every d... Amir
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So Opera has some commercials. I don't notice... Anonymous
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Not sure why all of you are knocking IE.... Bob
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With Opera I can restart with all t... Anonymous
