What Browser/OS/ISP do Mega-Tokyo people use?

[Cjmovie]

Well, actually, I can tell you a rough estimate of that. I've tracked by now a total of 1500 requests for my website from here alone, so I feel my results are a fairly valid representation of this board.

Browsers (out of 1143 people/visits):
Firefox 1.x: 89%, 1025 people/visits
Opera 8: 6.5%, 75 people/visits
Mozilla 1: 00.4%, 5 people/visits
Safari 416: 00.4%, 5 people/visits

OS (out of 1148 people/visits):
Windows XP: 83.5%, 959 people/visits
Linux: 14.7%, 169 people/visits
Windows 2000: 1.2%, 14 people/visits
Macintosh: 0.4%, 5 people/visits
Other: 0.08%, 1 people/visits (unknown)

ISP (host):
638   22.30%   24.31.125.184 (roadrunner)
201   0.36%   65.95.165.132
59   3.93%   68.103.32.140
52   0.14%   82.61.48.201
44   0.09%   69.157.230.84
41   0.08%   68.215.206.179
19   11.40%   72.14.194.27
14   7.56%   85.226.183.22
13   11.34%   12.203.117.226
12   0.08%   71.208.24.117
9   0.08%   217.80.49.231
9   7.08%   62.167.32.78
8   10.92%   60.240.144.119
8   7.44%   195.166.150.35
5   7.43%   207.81.254.25
5   7.43%   213.149.98.22
4   2.07%   82.201.251.32
3   0.09%   208.49.25.45
2   0.01%   80.165.161.221
1   0.08%   62.253.96.40

And, yes, I know....I'm way to bored.

[Cjmovie]

Woot! I've topped 200 posts!
...And that's only since July 25th.....

[Kon-Tiki]

Opera on Win98SE here, but I'm going to switch completely to Firefox once I've formatted my HD and installed WinXP. 1Gb Ram on 98SE... that's just plain painful. Any less and it's still just as painful. 98SE doesn't seem too good with memory management. Opera's an utter bastard when it comes to Javascript, is a resource hog and its popup blocker lets through just as many popups as IE without any security. So... Opera on Win98SE, but going to Firefox on WinXP.

[AR]

I primarily use Firefox [1.5 RC3] on XP x64, and occassionaly Firefox-1.0.7 on Gentoo Linux.

[Cjmovie]

Same for me, AR. Except for the gentoo part...I'm using slack.

Also, note that I _have_ filtered myself out of these results.

[Eero Ränik]

At the moment I'm using (heavily secured) Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP, on my other system (FreeBSD), I use Firefox 1.0.7.

[Candy]

firefox on slack at home, firefox on suse at school, iexplore on win2k at work (can't install firefox), firefox on win2k at home.

[Solar]

Firefox / Gentoo from the laptop, MSIE 6 / XP from the tower (basically a game console, using browser only to get driver updates and PBEM turns), MSIE 6 / NT4 at work.

[srg_13]

Firefox 1.5 rc3/Win XP on my computer, Firefox 1.0.7/winxp on main computer, IE6/WinXP at school, and ocasionally Firefox 1.0.7 on Ubuntu (Live CD) or Fedora core 4 (web/mail server)

-Stephen

[JoeKayzA]

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6-r7 on Gentoo Linux here (whoa - I have to upgrade ;D ) on my tower, the same on my laptop. For gaming there is also an installation of WinXP on my laptop.

cheers Joe

[Candy]

Why does everybody use firefox or something else non-IE at places he/she controls and IE at work and most schools?

[Kon-Tiki]

Cause you're not allowed to download stuff there?

[Solar]

Well, actually I am using whatever is "default" on the platform in question, as that usually gives you the best plugin support with the least hassles.

As my daily diet of websites is rather limited (a total of about 20 sites, plus the UserFriendly LOTD of course), I don't care much about which browser I'm using, as long as I don't get "you need a plugin to watch this" too often.

[Eero Ränik]

I like Internet Explorer a lot. If it was natively available on non-Windows systems, it'd be the only browser I'd use.

I don't know why everyone uses Firefox, though. It's not the safest, nor the fastest browser around. Even Internet Explorer can be safer than Firefox, after little patching and securing (IE is a lot faster anyway).

According to Symantec, Mozilla browsers are the buggiest around at the moment and Opera was supposed to be the most secure mainstream browser on PC. Why is it used so rarely, then?

I have a feeling that most of the people think that if they use Firefox, it magically makes the internet a safer place. It doesn't.

That said, I would welcome any comments, but I don't want to see any flaming. Please give arguments for your thoughts.

[JoeKayzA]

I don't know why everyone uses Firefox, though. It's not the safest, nor the fastest browser around. Even Internet Explorer can be safer than Firefox, after little patching and securing (IE is a lot faster anyway).

Well, never had a closer look at IE regarding patches and securing it, but AFAIK there is still more malicious software (or scripts) on the web which specifically targets IE (feel free to correct me on this, though).

About speed: I can't see much difference at runtime, but IE starts up much faster. However, I suspect this has to do with preloading of dlls rather than faster code...

According to Symantec, Mozilla browsers are the buggiest around at the moment and Opera was supposed to be the most secure mainstream browser on PC. Why is it used so rarely, then?

IE comes 'for free' with MS Windows, Mozilla Firefox is free for download, Opera is _not_ free anymore, IIRC. You can get a free version with ads, but for the ad-free one you'll have to pay.

cheers Joe