Come on Aussie!

Australia has now slipped to a lowly 4th on visitor rankings for this month! (Mar 17-Apr 17)
We only have 8 more visitors than Romania. Yes, Romania. We are lagging behind the USA, UK, and Canada.

Returning to the full history (since about December last year), Australia maintains its second position, but we are falling behind rapidly.

Yes, my Aussie friends, the Americans are demolishing us by a solid 50%, and Canada is breathing down our collective necks with a miniscule 1.89% buffer.

At least we still have 11.36% on Mexico....

For now...

The Broswer Wars continue...

After some positive starts from Google Chrome, it seems its support is dwindling somewhat. Firefox meanwhile has managed to stay pretty much the same while IE seems to have been gaining support.

At least on Ferret Tech Firefox/Windows still reigns, but we have some very weird setups going, including PS3's, what i think is my PSP, Konqueror (?), and all and every kind of weird Browswer/OS combo

Yes, you poor buggers, Chrome sits on a miserly 8.5% of my visits while Firefox romps home with a solid 55.36% majority. IE has made a big jump forward (BTW, 19% use IE6, 73% use IE7, and a random 7% use IE8. n00bs!) leapfrogging Chrome into second position with 17.6%.

Peculiarly, focusing on just Browsers (rather than Browser/OS combos) sees Firefox pull out 66% of the share, but IE and Chrome staying almost the same.

But of more interest are some of the weird choices. I've mentioned the Playstation 3/Playstation 3 entry but then we get some really odd Apple entries. The typical Safari/Macintosh ones sitting in a lonely 6th behind Firefox/Macinstosh! The we have Safari/Android? Who has an Android phone?

While on the topic of phones, what on Earth is a Danger Hiptop? Don't tell me it's that stupid little Hiptop Slide piece of cr** actually looking at my blog!

There was Firefox/Linux (probably Jackson), but Konqueror/Linux? Who? Why? What's wrong with you?

Safari/iPod. Yay! I have someone reading my blog who also happens to be such an iPod fanboy they couldn't be bothered using a real Web browser.

Camino/Macintosh? What even is Camino?

Mozilla Compatible Agent/(not set). i think that is my PSP there, but not so sure. If you're wondering, yes, the PSP's NetFront browser does run on the Mozilla engine/code.

PS3! Yay! Yay! Lots of Yay! PS3's will rule the world. (as long as we don't begin calling the PS3 the Skynet)

Safari/Windows... You're using Windows so use a real browser, idiot!

And last but not least. Safari/iPhone. oh my god, my life has just lost all colour and meaning....

UPDATE: RSS feeds are now delimited and complete reflections of the posts again.

The foibles of Google Chrome

Chrome is a very potent browser, it works great, runs well and becomes pretty intuitive, but there are a couple of things that would make it a much better tool 

1. Customisation There has to be some actual customisation somewhere. Firefox's extensions and themes are great, and provide the user with almost unimaginable power over the browser as does the highly usable about:config and tools utilities. Even if they just included more options, it would be better...  

2. Incognito mode This is a great idea and should be on every browser. Similar things are available for Firefix, but they tend to do things like clear your history, disable cookies, scripts, java, passwords, etc etc. while they are enabled and this can be very irritating. The Chrome method of only cleansing when the window is closed is a good idea, but some things need tweaking. I don't want to have to open a new window for private browsing. It should be an option, but incognito tabs should also be an option. Simply changing the colour or the logo of the tab should be enough to identify it and this would be a bit less clumsy.  

3. More Web 2.0 integration Sure, the Google Gears Web App Shortcut works like a charm, but maybe a bit more, like integration with Gmail, Google Docs, or the legendary Google Reader... Don't ask me how, it just should in this new age of Netbooks and Web 2.0, if it wants to be a true Web 2.0 browser... 

It is a good browser, but it's not a great browser, and these little changes would go a long way to propelling it towards greatness...

Yes, this is going to divide the population like a skunk in a lift, but it needed to be said...