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>>>>>>FireFox never crashes.
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>>>>>ROFL!!!
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>>>>'firefox crash' brings up a quick 321,000 hits on google.
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>>>"internet explorer crash": 691,000 plus about 323,000 for "ie crash" (though some seem to be repeats).
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>>Note the 'FireFox never crashes' quote above.
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>Noted, and thought that the ROFL above was enough. Though, the numbers seem to prove that the "never" is just a bit of an exaggeration - brings Mark Twain to mind.
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>IOW, the numbers are seemingly stacked about 2.5:1 in favor of IE's frequency of crashing, but then the market share of each browser is more like 5:1, so it should be at least so, right?
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>Not necessarily. First, most of the people who had Firefox crash actually know how to write on the Web, and know the name of their browser ;). That by itself makes it somewhat overreported, and IE massively underreported ("my computer/windows/browser crashed, whom do I call?" doesn't translate into a page automatically, does it?).
Your post got me wondering about browser market shares. Here is what I found:
http://www.e-janco.com/browser.htmThe chart at the bottom about market share by Windows version is also interesting, although initially hard to understand due to the wacky vertical scale. The bottom line is Vista is only at 9.1%. Good! And they say the market is deaf, dumb, and blind....
