tgdaily.com — Mozilla was surprised to discover that, every day, 50,000 people do not install Firefox after a successful sofwtare download. At the same time, Safari and Chrome leverage installers to their own advantage in a very efficient way. Browser installers impact market share and here's why.
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stresslifeApr 8, 2009
Interesting figures...only goes to show the issue of human difficulties while handling the exponentially-growing amount of information that we are bombarded everyday. If you download something and don't install it, it means something else captured your attention.
decultureApr 8, 2009
Funny I read this article only a little bit before deciding to install IE8 on this netbook with XP.IE8, in addition to being significantly larger than the other browser downloads (16MB vs. Firefox's 7MB & Chrome's mentioned half a megabyte), has taken well over 15 mins to install right now. I don't care about download size normally, but I'm on wifi and that's pretty much the only time I use my netbook, I barely ever use it at home as I have a desktop and a regular sized laptop that is heavier.After I downloaded, ran the installer and agreed to the terms, I now face multiple steps:1) download MORE updates2) check my computer for spyware (WTF??????????????)3) Install the actual program4) Install the updates it downloaded5) Restart my netbookGood god... Firefox's "bad" installer has NOTHING on this pile.
mithrasinvictusApr 9, 2009
I suspect it's usually the flash player that hangs.
balthisarApr 9, 2009
Well, the fact that I have high-level GPO's versus most of the company would seem to indicate that I know what I'm doing, and I've been entrusted with that level of confidence. So don't automatically assume that my mentioning "stupid GPO's" is the same as saying "all GPO's are stupid." I guess if you used English on a more frequent basis I'd not have had to explain that to you. ;-)
yaosioApr 9, 2009
I like google because they have an updater that you can't get rid of, even if you uninstall it.
mabsarkApr 9, 2009
"Also, not everybody blocks ads, just the people that don't understand how business works on the internet."Oh really?The fact is, you dont need ads on a website. You show ads on a website in the hope of them generating enough revenue to pay for the cost of the bandwidth. Ads tend to piss people off, infect computers with malware, and f**k up the design of a website, and you want people to believe that they're good for the internet. f**k that nonsense.The internet is not a playground for capitalist corporate ****s whoring the wares, it's a pure communist infrastructure for sharing ideas.Take digg, for example. It would appear that digg needs ads to pay for its bandwidth, but it could also charge its users. With 4 million registered Digg users paying $1 a year, I'm pretty sure that would be enough to cover bandwidth costs, and low enough that people wouldn't mind paying.
darkaneApr 9, 2009
@mabsarkYou are truly an ignorant fool. Not a single thing in your comment made sense.If you are not selling a service or a product, the only ways to make money online are through ads and donations. If you take ads away, the internet becomes a far less exciting place, because none of the sites you visit on a daily basis will be able to afford hosting costs, much less employees.It's no different than television or radio. It's how the world operates. Get over it.Also, if you think Digg only brings in $4 million per year, you are a lunatic.
leopardsApr 9, 2009
on Ubuntu, even easier! Update manager, click ok and type in password! All done!!
mtheoryxApr 10, 2009
Even easier...CEO: "Hey, low-paid, code monkey, tech grunt... get over here and install this for me."Just sayin'.