The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon 267
darthcamaro writes "How many times did you click the 'Back' button in your browser last week? According to a new study from Mozilla, it's likely that you clicked 'Back' a whole lot. 'Across Windows, Mac and Linux 93.1 percent of users clicked the button at least once over the course of a five-day period. In total the study reported that users clicked on the back button 66 times over the course of five days. The next most used button is the 'Reload' button with 73.2 percent usage and 22 clicks on average per user over five days. Other areas of the main window that were heavily used include the Search Bar where users input search queries. The study found that 67.9 percent of users used the Search Bar for an average of nearly 16 clicks per user over the course of five days.'"
I have never hit the back button (Score:1, Funny)
Because I have a 7-button mouse. Hax!
IE (Score:4, Funny)
For Internet Explorer, Ctrl+Alt+Delete is tops
I didn't click any ... (Score:5, Funny)
Zero Times (Score:5, Funny)
Zero times, I use vimperator.
I don't need to move my hands from the keyboard like some ape.
Huh (Score:3, Funny)
I would have thought Slashdot's 'submit' button would have been the one most clicked in Firefox.
Re:Zero Times (Score:3, Funny)
Good, you can be used to round up others of your kind when I wish to cook and eat your men or mate with your women.
Re:But what's really interesting... (Score:3, Funny)
> Erm, that's an average of 66 clicks per user I'd imagine.
He's no statistician.
Re:Self-contradictory? (Score:1, Funny)
This a million times.
And i hope to tech god that they don't go near a Ribbon Style interface, they are AWFUL. I have perfectly decent eyesight, in fact, i had it tested Thursday, perfectly healthy for my age.
Nor will i be using a touchscreen for it. And if i did have a touchscreen, i certainly would not be using my fingers on it, stylus or nothing.
WHY do people insist on ruining perfectly decent designs? Screw silly looks, that is what themes were built for, leave default UIs basic enough to get the job done, and easy enough for customization.
I don't even use the buttons in FF (when i use it), or even tabs, address bar, menu, anything.
Everything is behind a click / hotkey. I want as much visible space for webpages.
Sadly the Chromium devs aren't up for this, despite the fact they want to get rid of the browser and make the webpage the most important part. I haven't came across any of them that want the ability to modify / hide UI elements. I would ditch that tab bar in a heartbeat if i could.
My FF has been smaller than Chromium from before it was even announced...
I still use it as my main browser though, FF is just stuck way behind. Maybe FF4 will bring me back. Maybe.
Also, WHY do Mozilla insist on screwing around with APIs so damn often?
APIs were meant to hide crap like that from the developers, changes shouldn't break anything... unless it is some SERIOUSLY large changes that make it redundant. Apparently this is the case every "major-minor" release.
Re:This thread surprises me (Score:3, Funny)
(Note to self: Find the guy who invented tear-off tabs and tear his tab off. I clicked on the damn tab and moved the mouse down so I could highlight some text, and the fucking thing popped open a new goddamn window. WTF? Fuck mouse gestures.)
let's instead find the guy who decided to implement tear-off tabs without a checkbox to disable them, and check his box until he's disabled.
That's because ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why it was made big (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IE (Score:5, Funny)
"For Internet Explorer, Ctrl+Alt+Delete is tops"
That is almost as bad as setting my Hunter's Feign Death hotkey in Warcraft to Alt-F4...and not testing it until the 4th boss fight in Black Temple.