On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:26:45 +0200 Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote: > >> The Firefox monoculture is doing a lot of harm to our community. > > > So, I don't know what "monoculture" you're referring to. > > Popcon gives 23000 for iceweasel, 500 for dillo, and 18 for netsurf. > (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that konqueror statistics are > not significant since it's also used as a file manager.) > > If that's not a monoculture, I don't know what is. You missed out more popular selections: epiphany-browser: 11240 lynx: 5549 That drops the % from some 99% to closer to 65% or so. Yet popcon cannot extrapolate votes to actual usage. I have iceweasel installed but I rarely use it - probably just enough for it to show up in my popcon results as a regular 'vote'. Yet I regularly use epiphany-browser - at least 1,000 times more often than iceweasel. I also use lynx, I use Galeon and I sometimes use things like dillo or gtkhtml portals in other applications. Popcon cannot differentiate between those because I use at least four browsers at least once per month so the actual % is quite different. In terms of usage, I would say I use epiphany-browser. I would not describe myself as an iceweasel user, in fact I try to avoid using such an overweight and inefficient browser. I used to use Opera in my Windows-days and I don't miss it. IF it becomes fully DFSG compliant, I'd welcome it into main but I still wouldn't probably use it. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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