By Gian Fulgoni
from Comscore.com

Welcome to my first posting on comScore Voices. Here, I’ll take the opportunity to discuss topics and provide information that I hope will be relevant – and valuable – to anyone who is keenly interested in the continued development of the Internet as a powerful platform for consumers and marketers alike. I’ll also share some of the more important lessons I’ve learned over the course of my career, which includes more than a decade as the CEO of a large public market research company. I’ll leave it to my fellow bloggers from the senior ranks of comScore to outline the objectives they have set for their own postings.

As I was thinking about my first post, a comScore study came to mind that I thought would be of particular interest to the blogosphere. In this study, we examined the differences between those people who use Mozilla’s Firefox as their primary browser versus those who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox, the upstart in the browser wars, has carved out a meaningful market share against IE.

Our study proves what many might have suspected: Firefox users are demographically different in several important ways. For example, Firefox users are slightly more likely to be male (55 percent) than InternetExplorer users (50 percent).

In addition, compared to IE users, Firefox users more likely to have
annual household incomes of at least $75,000.

Firefox users are significantly younger: They are 69 percent more
likely than IE users to be between the ages of 18-24.

In summary, Firefox users are younger than the average Internet user, are 26 percent more likely to have incomes above $75,000, and also have a higher likelihood of being male. Interestingly, they are 13 percent more likely to have broadband connections. This leads us to the second part of this topic, which I will post soon, which will address how Firefox users
are early-adopters of Web 2.0 technologies. I will also describe Firefox users based on their ‘cognographic’ profile, which is comScore’s proprietary measure of users’ interests, passions and lifestyles.

Firefox has become a must to have browser for almost internet users. Although it become tough concurrence from IE,Opera and newly lunched Flock, Firefox remains on the top for the last few months in many survey. Firefox extension is one of the strenght that the community own. This extension help a lot of internet surfers simplifying their task to download video, to use IE based tab, to pick color, to measure a table etc etc.

Therefore I would like to recommend 5 vital extensions to those who busy designing and creating new web templates.

1. ColorZilla
   Collection of tool that help you to pickup color. Also provide the Eyedropper tool so that you can determine your desire color on the web.
2. Measureit
   Help you to measure something on the web. Width of table, width of paragraph etc etc. For example if you want to make a image for your header, you can measure directly the width of header by using the tool.
3. IE Tab
   Its vital to make sure your CSS work on Internet Explorer. Using this tool, you can view your webdesign in an IE tab in the Firefox itself
4. Fasterfox
   Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
5. Perfomancing Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog