Firefox Market Share Exceeds 20%
Great news for all of us who’s rooting for Firefox to gain world domination:
According to the most recent data made available by the market research firm today, the Internet Explorer stands at 69.88% today, while Firefox 2 and 3 account for a combined market share of 20.68%.
Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released
Be sure to grab the latest (and final) beta version of Firefox 3.
Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.
On Using Safari for Windows
I’ve previously tried Safari for Windows, but there were so many bugs I couldn’t be bothered. A few days ago I was notified that there was an update for Safari, which I put off for a while. After some time I finally updated and I’m pleased to say that it’s light years ahead of the previous version(s). It’s actually pretty good. As with iTunes it does feel a bit awkward having an app that was intended and visually appears to be made for Mac installed on Windows, but other than that I’m of course in love with the little things that Apple has always had an eye for; like breathtaking, smooth font rendering, beautiful buttons — you know, the details. As a person who’s extremely interested in design this stuff matters to me.
That you can adjust the length of articles whenever you’re viewing a site’s RSS feed is also pretty neat:
For porn enthusiasts there’s even something called private browsing:
Turn on private browsing and Safari won’t store your Google searches, your cookies, the history of sites you’ve visited, your download history, or information from online forms you’ve filled out.
Not everything is as it should be though. I have no idea where all my quicktags, like img, link, code and so forth are. I mean, they should appear whenever I’m writing an entry, but alas they’re not.
So, should you use Safari over, say, Firefox or Internet Explorer? Perhaps not if you love Firefox and all your add-ons and I hear that FF3 should be awesome once it’s released, but as for IE that’s always a yes. Everything really is better than IE. I don’t know about IE7, but my blog doesn’t show up correctly in IE6 and that’s just typical. But no matter what, consider giving Safari a try. You might like it.
Problems With The Site Using IE
First of all, I don’t use Internet Explorer. And neither should you. BUT it just so happens that a lot of people do, so I’ll try to fix how ugly the site is currently looking in IE. It really annoys me that I have no idea when the site is broken in other browsers, because everything just usually works in Firefox.
If you’re annoyed by the same thing then this link might be your thing: Test your web design in different browsers. Just enter your URL and you’ll have screenshots of how your site looks in other web browsers.