LL Submitters: Please check your sites in Mozilla/FireFox!

[JanTM]

I think the numbers in themselves don't say that much.

I just checked and 9.7% of the surfers on Booballistics use Firefox. But I would like to know how many of those 9.7% are actually in the group of potential buyers?

The way I see it from speaking to friends (and I could be mistaken) - Firefox is for those people who:

1. Just plain hate Microsoft because they have the "nerve" to make money on computers.
2. Want free stuff - Basically not so different from groups 1.
3. Mac people and other computer minorities.

People from groups 1 and 2 are highly unlikely to buy anything and therefor I really don't care if they can see my sites.

People from group 3 obviously have too much money (or else they would have bought a REAL computer for less money ) and I like those to see my sites.

But consulting my serverstats once again I see that only 2.4% of my surfers are on Macs. And I think it is reasonable to assume that not ALL Mac people use Firefox. So I am now down to less than 2% of my surfers that might or might not have a problem.

I can live with that!

[Rorschach]

Originally Posted by JanTM

The way I see it from speaking to friends (and I could be mistaken) - Firefox is for those people who:

1. Just plain hate Microsoft because they have the "nerve" to make money on computers.
2. Want free stuff - Basically not so different from groups 1.
3. Mac people and other computer minorities.

I don't agree with that... I think a lot of firefox users are just computer savvy surfers trying to tame the nasty surfing experience you get with IE. I'm sure some of them would still spend money if you present them with an enticing enough offer - but of course those juicy dumbass surfers (the ones you really want, the newbies) would still be using IE, so the shrinking IE segment will become more and more valuable.

I don't see why people can't just handle writing compliant html anyway... the whole point of writing to a standard is that everyone can see it!

[cd34]

Originally Posted by Rorschach

the whole point of writing to a standard is that everyone can see it!

you might want to follow some of the discussions on the CSS groups then. Even though CSS is a defined standard, Microsoft's interpretation of the standard is often at odds with the document that they helped author.

So, even if you use Compliant HTML and CSS, because of the way IE 6 renders the CSS, you still get two separate results.

So, can you convince Microsoft to follow the RFC that they coauthored? If so, it would make a lot of web designer's lives easier.

[Rorschach]

That is true, I was thinking more of fatal html errors in mozilla that IE would forgive.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by JanTM

The way I see it from speaking to friends (and I could be mistaken) - Firefox is for those people who:

1. Just plain hate Microsoft because they have the "nerve" to make money on computers.
2. Want free stuff - Basically not so different from groups 1.
3. Mac people and other computer minorities.

What?
Firefox users are people who just want a better and more secure browser than what comes included on their pc. I fear your disdain for us. I'm going to go hide now.

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

What?
Firefox users are people who just want a better and more secure browser than what comes included on their pc. I fear your disdain for us. I'm going to go hide now.

Wonder if Jan works for M$.

I only use Firefox because I got sick of IE and all the endless spyware, adware, etc that you get when you use IE. Also because MS wants to monopolize your computer they make the damn browser so integrated into the OS that when something goes wrong with the browser, buh bye, time to reinstall windows.