News - Firefox 4 leaves Internet Explorer 9 in the dust

[HEXUS]

Tyres screech and 7.1m downloads register on the speedometer in the first 24-hours.

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[Tattysnuc]

I'll wager that the reason that the reason that IE9 is growing slower is because of it's corporate implementations. Version upgrades like this need to be deployed and to so therefore need to be scheduled.

In my experience, thsoe who are running Firefox, they have a more technical grounding, and therefore will upgrade, or be able to upgrade at their own behest, as opposed to when Windows Updates says to or their IT bod does....

[Brewster0101]

Chrome is my default browser. I use IE when.chrome doesnt work on some sites. I installed IE9 and then uninstalled quite.quickly as it was slow and buggy with a lot of pages and videos..

[DaKid]

Interesting when read against this ... http://www.networkworld.com/communit...source=nww_rss

[mwarner]

Chrome is my default browser. I use IE when.chrome doesnt work on some sites. I installed IE9 and then uninstalled quite.quickly as it was slow and buggy with a lot of pages and videos..

I tend to agree that Chrome is the best browser, at least for my requirements. However, "Slow and Buggy" is not quite how I would describe IE9. I am actually quite impressed with it, and certainly wouldn't uninstall it for IE8 if it wasn't by default browser. It is hugely faster than previous versions of IE in my experience. Some sites may not work correctly with IE9 at the moment, but that is the fault of the site administrators rather than IE9. You can always drop back to compatibility view if you find something that doesn't work.

[Phage]

As that reviewer said.

"I like the Firefox add-ons I use. I don't like the feeling that Chrome is tracking ALL of my browsing habits."

[Grey M@a]

lol I love this Google is tracking me lark, if you look in the browsers options for Chrome, three clicks, yes thats all it takes, three clicks to turn off all the Google reporting. Either way, get Iron which is 99.9% the same browser.

IE9 is impressive but it will soon become out dated, as for Firefox. It's been downloaded in vast quantities but jesus, they can't even get text rendering correct lol, what did they change from the RC to the Final release.

[mattythebatty]

Interesting when read against this ... [cant quote link ]

Just benched opera, it beats them all.
Opera(v11.01) Scored: 7630 Points
On openSUSE

[Phage]

lol I love this Google is tracking me lark, if you look in the browsers options for Chrome, three clicks, yes thats all it takes, three clicks to turn off all the Google reporting. Either way, get Iron which is 99.9% the same browser.

IE9 is impressive but it will soon become out dated, as for Firefox. It's been downloaded in vast quantities but jesus, they can't even get text rendering correct lol, what did they change from the RC to the Final release.

Y'know I may have to turn in my Geek card. I'll look those up. Thanks !

[Infinite]

There's probably a difference from number of downloads compared to actual usage.

I know myself and many people on this forum downloaded it for a test and nothing more.

At the end of the day I can still see that IE will be still on top on with number of users.

[badass]

There's probably a difference from number of downloads compared to actual usage.

I know myself and many people on this forum downloaded it for a test and nothing more.

At the end of the day I can still see that IE will be still on top on with number of users.

Plus there are those complete muppets that download it multiple times simply to boost the numbers.

[TheAnimus]

FF4, it got this many downloads because thats what its users care about, a religious devotion, its text rendering is badly broken on many systems....

http://forums.hexus.net/general-disc...-counts-2.html

I mean just look at that. Look at what kind of mentality drove it, Opera, Chrome and IE users are too busy actually browsing the web.

The headline was disapointing, I was hoping to find that FF4 was actually faster than ie9, rather than having more first day fan boys

[davidcrofter]

lol I love this Google is tracking me lark, if you look in the browsers options for Chrome, three clicks, yes thats all it takes, three clicks to turn off all the Google reporting. Either way, get Iron which is 99.9% the same browser.

IE9 is impressive but it will soon become out dated, as for Firefox. It's been downloaded in vast quantities but jesus, they can't even get text rendering correct lol, what did they change from the RC to the Final release.

What are the three clicks as I don't want Google ogling me.

[Grey M@a]

What are the three clicks as I don't want Google ogling me.

Go to options in Chrome then go to Under the Bonnet:

Make sure you untick these three options:

• Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors
• Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLS typed into the address bar
• Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google

You could also go into content settings in the same menu and turn off the cookie and location services also.

Otherwise you can download SRIron from here:

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

Same Chromium backend just without the Google bits added. Either way though, I don't understand why people are so worried about google tracking you for ad's xD Unless you are looking at illegal material or you are part of Mr Gary Glitters brigade.

[miniyazz]

Seriously, what's with me not finding out about new browser launches :/

FF didn't even tell me, and I updated to 3.6.1 or something this morning, lol.

[rs4847]

Thought the reason why IE9 downloads barely registered was because it was only for Vista and above and most people and places still run XP heck even 98/2000, I still run XP Pro x64 as I just don't really see to upgrade yet and yes FF4 runs just fine on it.