Browser share?
Moderators: Cat_7, Ronald P. Regensburg
In February:
48% of visitors here ran Windows
47% ran Mac OS
4% ran Linux
49.8% of Windows users run Firefox
29.4% ran Internet Explorer
11.3% ran Chrome
5.5% ran Opera
65% of Mac users ran Safari
27.5% ran Firefox
3.9% ran Chrome
72% of Linux users ran Firefox
10.6% ran Chrome
9.7% ran Mozilla (!!)
4.2% ran Opera
48% of visitors here ran Windows
47% ran Mac OS
4% ran Linux
49.8% of Windows users run Firefox
29.4% ran Internet Explorer
11.3% ran Chrome
5.5% ran Opera
65% of Mac users ran Safari
27.5% ran Firefox
3.9% ran Chrome
72% of Linux users ran Firefox
10.6% ran Chrome
9.7% ran Mozilla (!!)
4.2% ran Opera
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Yeah... funny thing about IE6. You know how they made it "faster" right? The IE6 performance boost is offset by the fact that Windows must use more resources in order to load certain parts of IE6. This is one of the ploys behind the "Internet Explorer Intergration into Windows" BS This performance loss is especially bad for IE7/8, since those versions no longer share resources with Windows Explorer. As a result, Windows must load even more junk to compensate for this fact. You can tell this by checking the amount of memory/computer resources used in Windows before-and-after installing IE7/8.Well, Opera always used to claim that their browser was the fastest. Back then though, I always found IE6 to be the faster (in general usage, I wasn't doing any tests).
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In April, the visitors to this site ran Windows 47.7% of the time and Mac OS 47.5% of the time!
Windows users ran:
Firefox (48.2%)
IE (30.2%)
Chrome (13.2%!)
Opera (5.2%)
Safari (2.4%)
Mac OS users ran:
Safari (63.9%)
Firefox (28.6%)
Chrome (5.0%)
64% of visitors are running an English language operating system.
Windows users ran:
Firefox (48.2%)
IE (30.2%)
Chrome (13.2%!)
Opera (5.2%)
Safari (2.4%)
Mac OS users ran:
Safari (63.9%)
Firefox (28.6%)
Chrome (5.0%)
64% of visitors are running an English language operating system.
In October, the visitors to this site ran the following operating systems:
Windows: 47.5%
OS X: 45.8%
Linux: 5.1%
Fully 17.1% of Windows visitors used Google Chrome, in addition to 6.9% of Macintosh visitors.
72% of Macintosh users are using 10.6, while 14% are using 10.5 (intel) and 5% are using 10.5 (ppc)
45% of Windows visitors use XP, while 40% use Windows 7.
It would be interesting to see what Linux distro visitors are using, but the tracker (Google Analytics) doesn't provide that.
The most viewed page in the site is Ronald's SheepShaver for OS X setup guide, which accounts for 8.7% of all pageviews around here. That's more than even the index page of the SheepShaver forum (5.2%), the front page of the wiki (3.6%) and the index of the whole forum (2.6%)
Windows: 47.5%
OS X: 45.8%
Linux: 5.1%
Fully 17.1% of Windows visitors used Google Chrome, in addition to 6.9% of Macintosh visitors.
72% of Macintosh users are using 10.6, while 14% are using 10.5 (intel) and 5% are using 10.5 (ppc)
45% of Windows visitors use XP, while 40% use Windows 7.
It would be interesting to see what Linux distro visitors are using, but the tracker (Google Analytics) doesn't provide that.
The most viewed page in the site is Ronald's SheepShaver for OS X setup guide, which accounts for 8.7% of all pageviews around here. That's more than even the index page of the SheepShaver forum (5.2%), the front page of the wiki (3.6%) and the index of the whole forum (2.6%)
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Well, I always try to encourage people to actually read the setup guide. Apparently it works.
And there is a web location file (similar to a Windows internet shortcut file) in my SheepShaver build downloads that points directly to the setup guide.
There are relatively many OSX visitors on this site and almost all of them on a Mac that cannot run 'classic' applications anymore. (One needs 10.4 or earlier on PPC to be able to run the Classic environment.)
These figures support what I gather from the forums: Many Mac users do not come here because they like to experiment with emulators, but because they actually need SheepShaver to be able to continue using software that does not run anymore on their new Macs. In the past years I have seen this shift in interest among Mac users in the forums. And it happened to myself: When I started playing with BasiliskII, SheepShaver and Mini vMac, it was out of curiosity and for nostalgic reasons. I did not need it for anything useful. But after upgrading to Leopard, and certainly now on Intel, I do need SheepShaver for one single 'classic' application, TeleFinder. I am sysop of an old (and now dying) TeleFinder BBS. It can be used with a web browser, but administrator and moderator tasks can only be done with TeleFinder.
And there is a web location file (similar to a Windows internet shortcut file) in my SheepShaver build downloads that points directly to the setup guide.
There are relatively many OSX visitors on this site and almost all of them on a Mac that cannot run 'classic' applications anymore. (One needs 10.4 or earlier on PPC to be able to run the Classic environment.)
These figures support what I gather from the forums: Many Mac users do not come here because they like to experiment with emulators, but because they actually need SheepShaver to be able to continue using software that does not run anymore on their new Macs. In the past years I have seen this shift in interest among Mac users in the forums. And it happened to myself: When I started playing with BasiliskII, SheepShaver and Mini vMac, it was out of curiosity and for nostalgic reasons. I did not need it for anything useful. But after upgrading to Leopard, and certainly now on Intel, I do need SheepShaver for one single 'classic' application, TeleFinder. I am sysop of an old (and now dying) TeleFinder BBS. It can be used with a web browser, but administrator and moderator tasks can only be done with TeleFinder.
The site and forum certainly have changed over the years. When the site started in 1999, it was frequented almost entirely by Windows users... for obvious reasons.
It was many years before the site shifted to being mainly for Macintosh users.
And while half the visitors are Windows, one can easily see that the forum itself is skewed more to Macintosh users. Things sure do change.
Heck, even *I* don't really use Windows anymore.
It was many years before the site shifted to being mainly for Macintosh users.
And while half the visitors are Windows, one can easily see that the forum itself is skewed more to Macintosh users. Things sure do change.
Heck, even *I* don't really use Windows anymore.
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I'm using Vector Linux, which is Slackware based.
I tend to use Virtual Box to access Windows stuff from within Linux, but I do have an installation of Windows XP which I can boot into as well.
I don't tend to use emulators as much as I used to as I now have access to real older Macintosh systems. I originally used BII etc as I didn't have any Macs.
I don't have any modern Macs., but I would still like to get some sort of OSX installed on my PC as a hackintosh setup.
What do you tend to use these days ClockWise?
I tend to use Virtual Box to access Windows stuff from within Linux, but I do have an installation of Windows XP which I can boot into as well.
I don't tend to use emulators as much as I used to as I now have access to real older Macintosh systems. I originally used BII etc as I didn't have any Macs.
I don't have any modern Macs., but I would still like to get some sort of OSX installed on my PC as a hackintosh setup.
What do you tend to use these days ClockWise?
I'm an Ubuntu man!
I switched over because Windows XP is getting long in the tooth. I figure that when I buy my next laptop, I might have some trouble installing XP onto it. I had enough trouble getting it running on my current system.
I installed Ubuntu a partition just so I could "get used" to it while still using XP as my main system, but soon afterwards I just switched to using it full time. With the right mods and themes the UI is exactly what I am used to using, and the speed is wonderful. Everything is done so fast. I dig it.
And all the applications I need are available... Open Office for work, VLC Player for movies, some FTP and screenshot software for keeping this site up to date and thanks to Howard I have some good builds of SheepShaver and Basilisk II. I've even been able to get support for Korean language stuff for my partner to use when necessary.
I switched over because Windows XP is getting long in the tooth. I figure that when I buy my next laptop, I might have some trouble installing XP onto it. I had enough trouble getting it running on my current system.
I installed Ubuntu a partition just so I could "get used" to it while still using XP as my main system, but soon afterwards I just switched to using it full time. With the right mods and themes the UI is exactly what I am used to using, and the speed is wonderful. Everything is done so fast. I dig it.
And all the applications I need are available... Open Office for work, VLC Player for movies, some FTP and screenshot software for keeping this site up to date and thanks to Howard I have some good builds of SheepShaver and Basilisk II. I've even been able to get support for Korean language stuff for my partner to use when necessary.
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Hi,
It seems your machine can work all the way up to OSX 10.6.5 Only the video card might prove a bit troublesome.
Info on getting full support for the videocard is here:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=190586
If you are going to try, the best way to start is to find a so-called boot cd image that boots on your machine from which you can start the actual OSX install.
This might do: http://www.mediafire.com/?ytmlmwhdgnz (unpack the file, and burn the iso to a cd and use it to try to boot your machine, if it does, you can then try to install OSX from a retail disk)
I would suggest reading some guides about that installation method. I would also strongly suggest using a separate hard disk. It needs to be a Sata disk.
Best,
Cat_7
It seems your machine can work all the way up to OSX 10.6.5 Only the video card might prove a bit troublesome.
Info on getting full support for the videocard is here:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=190586
If you are going to try, the best way to start is to find a so-called boot cd image that boots on your machine from which you can start the actual OSX install.
This might do: http://www.mediafire.com/?ytmlmwhdgnz (unpack the file, and burn the iso to a cd and use it to try to boot your machine, if it does, you can then try to install OSX from a retail disk)
I would suggest reading some guides about that installation method. I would also strongly suggest using a separate hard disk. It needs to be a Sata disk.
Best,
Cat_7
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