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Example one: Accidentally(?) visit a pornography/warez page with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. See, after visiting with each browser, which leaves you with more malware installed on your computer.
Example two: Open pretty much any page in Firefox and IE. See which one has fewer popups.
Example three: Open a PROPER/VALID css/xhtml layout in Firefox; it's rendered as it should be! Open the same page in Internet Explorer, see how many errors there are, and how bad the page looks. I personally had to code 'IE hacks' into my website's CSS so the page would render properly in IE.
Now, I realize that this page isn't all about Firefox vs IE, but with pretty much every argument, Firefox wins
The bad:
1. Firefox takes a little longer to load than IE.
2. Firefox (more recent builds) seem to be pretty inefficient with ram (I don't care, because I've got 2GB anyways).
And that's pretty much it, I've never really had any other problems with Firefox..
Besides the above, I've grown to love the interface of Firefox; I love how the tab bar disappears when there aren't tabs open, and I love how easily customizable the interface is. If you guys have a browser with faster rendering, more secure browsing, and an easily/fully customizable interface, let me know, I'll at least try it, but for now I'm sticking with Firefox.
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Firefox adoption amongst High Schoolers
I just spoke to a friend of mine from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business who's the CEO of PrepMe, a startup firm that runs an online SAT prep course. He mentions that they've hired a new web designer to make their website "Mozilla-compliant" (his words, not mine) because about 12% of their visitors are using Firefox!
Given the likely demographics of their users (I think there's a pretty decent chance that most visitors are kids in high school), it looks like Firefox is scoring big points amongst teenagers. I know it's not big news -- we've known this for a while but it's always great hearing from content creators that Firefox adoption is growing and they're having to adapt or be left behind.
It's often hard to gauge the impact of Firefox based on raw percentages alone, but when someone tells you that they've had to make business decisions based on an increase in Firefox usage, that's something concrete you can't ignore.
Another friend of mine who helps to run some of the IT infrastructure for one of the largest Model United Nations conferences for high schoolers in the United States has also provided me with a day's worth of their web server logs. I haven't yet parsed it, but I hope to do so within a couple of days. The results should be interesting.
UPDATE (2005-09-27):PrepMe's new standards-compliant website has gone live! Check it out!
