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Google Chrome: Trend in browser usage (October 2008)

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Browser Statistics Month by Month


2008 IE7 IE6 Chrome Fx Moz S O
October 26.9% 20.2% 3.0% 44.0% 0.4% 2.8% 2.2%
September 26.3% 22.3% 3.1% 42.6% 0.5% 2.7% 2.0%



Logo Google ChromeTwo months are already gone since the launch of Google Chrome. Its market share still around 3% (source: w3school accessed on the 6th of November 2008). From the data available, we can see how IE still losing market share. Users who leave IE6 (-2.1%) are more than the ones who move on IE7 (+0.6%). The winner in this battle still Firefox that gained 1.4% of the market share.

One of the reasons why Google Chrome’s market share isn’t increased yet it is probably because of the missing google toolbar. Many users still complaining about this problem and most of them said they won’t use Google Chrome until the Google toolbar is available.

Ciao :)

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How to remove the index.php from the pretty permalink in WordPress 2.5.x

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I spent so much time on it and I am really tired.

I will go straight to the point:

1) FTP - Go on the main directory of your website (www.yourwebsite.com)

2) You should look for the file .htaccess (is an hidden file, so you should set your FTP client or your web-cpanel to show hidden files).

3) Open the .htaccess file, copy all the content and paste and save it in another file on your pc (this is helpful just in case things go wrong). Name this file “justincasethingsgowrong.htaccess”

4) Now delete the .htaccess file from your website.

5) Go on your WordPress admin panel and  set up  the pretty permalink as you like (without the index.php) and save it.

6) After saving, you will get a message that says you need to upload your .htaccess

7) create an empty .htaccess file and upload it in the main directory of your website (www.yourwebsite.com).

8) Try to access your website.

EVERYTHING SHOULD BE WORKING.

If it doesn’t, copy the code below inside your .htaccess (on the web):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Save it and everything will be fine.

Now you finally got rid of the index.php

If you still have troubles, just go back to the file “justincasethingsgowrong.htaccess” that you saved on your pc, and upload again that file on the main directory of your website and rename it with “.htaccess” (but in this case you won’t have solved the problem).

Good luck :)

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