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Piracy might be one of the reasons. But there is another possible reason - underpowered machines. Unlike the western world, owning a computer is still a luxury
by sankara 16y ago
Piracy might be one of the reasons. But there is another possible reason - underpowered machines. Unlike the western world, owning a computer is still a luxury here (India). Most people are stuck with old machines where firefox and chrome are terribly slow.
I was expecting India to have a much higher share. But as statcounter's stats[1] suggests, chrome already has ~25% share. IE in general and IE6 in particular are losing market share drastically. This is a welcome trend.
[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IN-monthly-201002-201102 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IN-monthly-201002-201102
- colanderman 16y agoWhat is the Indian opinion of Opera? I've run Opera 9 on 200 MHz, 64 MB machines just fine, where Firefox wouldn't cut it.
- shadowfox 16y agoI wonder if there is a uniform "indian opinion" on Opera
- ianhawes 16y agoWhile you're at it, I need the phone number for Europe.
- jodrellblank 16y ago555-387673
- notahacker 16y agoAre FF and later versions of IE really slower than IE6? I remember IE6 with QQ toolbar being literally unusable for me before I gave my then colleague's laptop a lease of life by upgrading her browser to IE7 (sans toolbar) for the ActiveX-dependent extensions and Firefox 3 for everything else. Mostly I'd assume it's a function of IE-specific code in webapps and pre-XP OS installations that means that IE6 is not only required but necessary for some purposes.
- rudiger 16y agoThis makes no sense. Both Firefox and Chrome are faster than IE6 on identical hardware.