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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox is highly extensible, with thousands of third-party add-ons available. Add-ons gallery: https://addons.mozilla.org Also available as an (unofficial) portable app: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable More info »

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Hoax Study: Intelligent Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage

Review by em4020 about Firefox Google Chrome Opera Internet Explorer Aug 2011

July 26th, 2011: A Vancouver based "Psychometric Consulting company", AptiQuant, would have released a report [1] on a trial it conducted to measure the effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser. In this HOAX-report AptiQuant offered free online IQ tests to over a 100,000 people and then plotted the average IQ scores based on the browser on which the test was taken. Results of the fictitious study: The graphs in the HOAX report showed, that Internet Explorer users scored lower than average on the IQ tests. The HOAX-report tried to connote, that Chrome, Firefox and Safari users had higher than average IQ scores.

As OmgItsTheSmartGuy revealed soon, this was no real study but only a hoax, see [2].

Thanks OmgItsTheSmartGuy for this information!

Browser percentage usage by percentile

[1] The full report can be downloaded at: http://goo.gl/9rgCD , Link is OK on 2012-05-01

[2] Wikipedia: Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage

[Links corrected by em4020, April 30th, 2012]
 
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OmgItsTheSmartGuy  (Administrator) Aug 2011

Argh it was a hoax! http://www.aptiquant.com/articles/internet-explorer-study-was-indeed-a-hoax/
 
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Terafall  (User) Apr 2012

can you update the link? cause it only shows error
 
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OmgItsTheSmartGuy  (Administrator) Apr 2012

It looks like they closed the website. Basically, the creators of the study admitted that it was a joke. You can Google the URL ("internet explorer study was a hoax") if you want more details.
 
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Terafall  (User) May 2012

But still,thank you for revealing this, I knew there was something wrong. Its impossible for Internet Explorer to be that famous
 
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firefox vs chrome

Negative Review by Amphibian about Firefox Mar 2012

I have always liked firefox (stylistically) but have been bugged by niggles... its a heavy bit of kit, and too many things don't work smoothly. Opera I have found to be much zippier and with more simple useful features (i.e. the zoom bar)
 
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Firefox / Chrome need 29.7 / 77.7 MB harddisk space

Positive Review by em4020 about Firefox Google Chrome Aug 2010

Firefox / Chrome need 29.7 / 77.7 MB harddisk space
If it is important for you to save space on your harddisk, or save space for backups of drive C:\ it is recommendable to use Firefox instead of Google Chrome: http://screencast.com/t/ZDUxM2Iz
 
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