Comments on: Internet Explorer balks at Firefox download link

By: scrooge_74

scrooge_74 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:18:44 +0000

Maybe is just me, but a few months ago I was trying to help a friend figure out some stuff about moving his data from an old Palm using Palm OS to a new one using WM6 (not a pretty sight). But the only PC I had for researching was his (which uses Vista and had no Firefox). It took me ages to find stuff using IE and that damn Vista, using Firefox manage to get info in under 10 mins.

I was intrigue and another day I tried searches related to Linux and turns out the searches went well off the mark (lots of adds and few valuable info) if you tried the search feature it has built in and then you compare the results to using Google under Firefox

Makes you wonder..

By: boy

boy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:08:50 +0000

This just proves that when you have a big website, you are supposed to check for browser compatibility with MSIE6

This is sad.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:25:13 +0000

mearly ends it. It’s good practice when coding in Javascript to wrap your code in HTML comments to ensure that old browsers skip over the code when they don’t know how to handel the script. But that’s for anchent browsers. IE 6 there should have no problem with it.

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By: johnraff

johnraff — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:50:14 +0000

As to IE usage, I’m afraid a Linux-oriented blog might give you a somewhat unrepresentative user sample. My restaurant’s site (www.rafflesnagoya.com , in Japan) for example, reports 88.7% of visitors using Windows, 6.2% Mac, 4.3% “unknown” and a tiny 0.7% for Linux! Browsers: 84.9% IE, 5.4% Firefox, 3.8% Safari… It’s true that Firefox is eating into IE’s share but there’s still a long way to go.

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By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:24:35 +0000

Similar thing happened to me just the other day after re-installing Windows XP.

However while I had no problems downloading Firefox (from mozilla.org not getfirefox.net) every time I tried to run the .exe Windows would inform me the file was corrupt.

I tried this many, many times, before downloading Google’s Chrome and using Chrome to download Firefox… which of course installed it first time fine!

By: L4Linux

L4Linux — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:02:56 +0000

Who uses IE anymore?? According to w3counter, in my blog 38% of visitors are using windows. The same time only 10% of visitors used IE, which means that 75% of windows users did not use IE.
IE usage is going down for years and won’t stop.

By: davis

davis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:38:48 +0000

I just ran across this very issue today after building a new Media Center 2005 PC.

I had to download Firefox Portable (from portableapps.com) just to download the real FF.

After I finished patching the computer (in which I also installed IE7) I was able to click the download link with no problems.

Funny how I came across your blog posting of the exact same issue I had to deal with today.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:15:25 +0000

Yeah WordPress cut a whole chunk out of my last post probably confused by the html comment. Let it be- the last 2 ideas were probably better anyway…