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Isn't that 98% OF a total of 3% market share, a market share that's still on a steady decline
So basically just under 3% of people (provided Mozilla's data is accurate), which means...nothing cause ain't noone listens to the tiny minority, as much as I would like it to be not the case
No. Mozilla is a nonprofit that includes Firefox, but is not Firefox.
Bias is one of the first things anyone learns in statistics, they didn't just poll Firefox users to figure out who likes browser choice. The article says who they polled.
neither the article nor the research their pulling from does tho? all i see is "people"
There's a link to the actual report in the article, which has further links to the documents used in the survey.
To be specific, this wasn't a traditional questionnaire, they made limited-functionality desktop environments and had people try out different options.
The link in the article.
i looked over that one, no wonder i found it so confusing (maybe my limited knowledge of english got in the way?) thanks for clarifying
No worries. Its an interesting study, and Mozilla does good work.