Internet Explorer market share at all time low
 

Sounds like IE is going to become second fiddle to FF, according to this from zdnet anyway http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=4888

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/05/58.png

Can't say that I am surprised by this, IE has continued to be a clunky browser, unwilling to keep up with the latest technologies and heavily weighed down by the OS.

I'm not surprised either. IE is probably not going to help anyone browsing forums. At school the other day, I saw all of the problems vB4 had with IE.

I have to work with it since most of my clients use Microsoft product that require IE but outside of work I only use FF.

Since moving to my newest pc (about two weeks ago) I have (as an experimant) set FF as the default, and so far ive been quite happy. There is one site I have to use IE for as it uses an active X component, and FF just isnt interested in working on it.

The most urgent thing to do is to ban IE6.

I'm starting to have a lot of issues with firefox on both on my Mac and home PC's.

I find chrome a overall much better browser and a lot faster.

Its about time - After 14+ years of crashing, illegal operations and other problems, its past time for another browser to replace internet explorer. And I'am not talking ie 6, 7 or 8 - the whole thing needs to be replaced.

I have been using internet explorer since windows 95, according to wikipedia that was version 1. Version 1.5 came out with NT4. I remember from way back then - if you clicked a link before the page loaded, the browser would crash with an illegal operation error. So you had to wait for the page to fully load before you could do anything.

Yeah I had issues with FF also on my MAC and windoz setups. Use chrome on those and FF on the Linux :)

When I first tried firefox about 4 years ago, I didn't like it.

I gave firefox a chance 5 weeks ago because I wanted to download a video and firefox has an extension(plug-in) for that, used it for a week and didn't like it.

In my opinion, Opera is the best :)

I agree very much. You can include this in the bottom of your forum headinclude template http://www.ie6nomore.com/

I prefer Chrome.

~Tim

Looks like it's starting to make a come back though according to some new internet browser surveys performed.

I've seen for a year now that FF is used by about 10% more visitors to my forum then IE and growing every month... But I use Chrome, I[m a recent IE convert myself.

Evn though FF and chrome have more vulnerabilities then IE?

That may be true, I wouldn't know for sure, but I do know for sure less people ACT on those vulnerabilities so it's still safer.

I was basing this on the secunia half-year report: http://secunia.com/gfx/pdf/Secunia_H...eport_2010.pdf

I'll stick with Opera.

I recently made the switch to Opera myself, it's fantastic. I was just giving it a try to say I've used it and be able to give a little less unbiased opinions in threads like these, and I'm hooked to it.


(Except when I have to use Java to upload photographs to mPix, doesn't work for some reason)

It does have its quirks, but it is fast and loads quicker for me than any other browser.

Firefox forever! ;)

Opera, Chrome, Safari, ... bleh :p

I'm going to have to say that lynx is the fastest and most secure bowser that I have come across :D