browser compatibility

[freydaddy]

hello, does anyone have any tips for making a website viewable in firefox. my site is alright in IE but i cant seem to get it to look good in firefox. also do alot of people use firefox? Pokers Nation

[pokerguy]

According to this Cnet article, Firefox's market share in the US is 5.7%.

This was in February, though, and this data is different in other countries.

"WebSideStory released its data for the United States only. But the company also tracks browser activity in nations around the world, where the market share battle varies significantly.

In China, for example, Firefox accounts for about 1.1 percent of active use, compared with 98.5 percent for IE. Mozilla's share in Japan and South Korea isn't much better.

But in Germany, Firefox ferried 18.8 percent of traffic to Web sites, compared with 73 percent for IE. WebSideStory's numbers indicate that the open-source browser does better, on the whole, in Europe than it does in the United States or Asia."

Another more recent article reports Firefox's global marketshare as 10%:

According to web analysis firm OneStat, the Firefox web browser comprises 11.51 percent of the global browser market. A 2.82 percent increase since April effectively pushed the popular open source browser above the 10 percent mark.