Huh, that’s interesting. Only about 2% of our Opera visitors are using 8.x. The other 98% are using Opera 9.x.

Shows how cutting-edge your visitors are! Something to be proud of

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I wonder if I could get those gogles pictured above.

That is something I just made up. They are Oakley glasses with the logos overlayed on the lenses.

Huh, that’s interesting. Only about 2% of our Opera visitors are using 8.x. The other 98% are using Opera 9.x.

Opera for example… not even the half of the users are using the latest version but stick with 8.x, their page says.

When I look at my web host stats I can confirm this. 50% of my users are using 8.x, only 35% are using 9.x, the others are older versions of Opera.

Short answer, this is because Mozilla can only update their own builds as you cannot expect them to update a unofficial/third-party build not made by Mozilla (especially sight unseen) as there could be a lot of differences. The Firefox builds from from Mozilla is easy enough to set up and use (untar and run), yet some Linux users make me wonder why they switched to Linux when they ask “where is the installer(like on Windows)” or “Ok, I finally managed to extract this but how do I make or install this etc”

I use Linux, but I do use the distro provided builds, especially since I test/use nightlies.

There were plans in the past for Mozilla to work with the more popular Linux distros to get the Linux distro builds of Firefox listed on Mozilla.org or mozilla.com so people can find them or be aware there are updates at time, but this has not happened yet.

I agree that my home situation is not really comparable and I wouldn’t recommend anyone to do the same, especially if they’re not really aware of what they’re doing

At both my current job as well as my previous one, they’re also still using IE6 on all machines. Mainly because of compatibility reasons regarding the sites and webapps people need to visit.

It’s quite easy to get to this percentage this way, and not really a fair comparison imo.

That’s true, but they are saying you aren’t considered to be secure since IE7 helps protect you from phishing and spyware attacks, which is something IE6 wasn’t designed to do. I can kinda understand that since there was like a 7 year gap between the releases, and the web changed a lot during that time. At the same time I can see what you’re saying where a lot of people haven’t upgraded for compatibility reasons.

At both my current job as well as my previous one, they’re also still using IE6 on all machines. Mainly because of compatibility reasons regarding the sites and webapps people need to visit.

It’s quite easy to get to this percentage this way, and not really a fair comparison imo.

The Web is a mines field and many innocent surfers have been hurt with malicious software.

But 1 thing i find pretty interesting.A sizeable chunk of FF users are Linux users and most distro’s including ubuntu have the inbuilt updater disabled. So you really have to rely on something like synaptic to get FF updated. So that 92.2% is really significant coz i guess it includes linux users( like me) too. Is it just because linux users are a little bit more tech savvy and concerned about browser vulnerabilities.

I think the tech savvy crowd is always more aware of new releases, and I think most people upgrade because it takes no time at all. If someone is made aware that an important update is available I have a feeling that most people would upgrade. So the underlying problem here is making IE users aware that an update is available.