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Internet Explorer Loses 11.4% Market Share in Just 3 Months

Posted 07/06/09 at 08:44:52 AM  by Paul Lilly

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How's this for irony - Internet Explorer 8 is Microsoft's best browser to date and, save for IE7, might be the company's most ambitious update to the IE series yet, but for the first time in over a decade, IE's market share appears to be in trouble.

According to StatCounter, a free online stats tool, Internet Explorer has coughed up 11.4 percent of the browser market share since March. This despite IE8 continuing to show strong growth, though much of that growth is coming at the expense of IE7, as Microsoft has been aggressively pushing its latest browser version.

Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Google's Chrome browsers are the ones responsible for 'stealing' away IE users in the past three months, with Firefox claiming at least half of the IE defectors.

What browser are you using?

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TAGS: microsoft, Software, Internet Explorer, browser, IE
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avatarReopen Last Browsing Session

Submitted by bart3385 on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 2:57am

For those who thought IE8 dropped some of the useful features in IE7, like the automatically reopening of previous webpages.... hit the Tools menu, and click on....

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avatarI was actually using 8 for a

Submitted by atomaweapon on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 5:10pm

I was actually using 8 for a little bit, but reverted back to 7. To please all those standards junkies, it seems half my sites don't show up right in IE8. They also removed the "Open these tabs when you launch IE again" whenever I close a window with multimple tabs. That was a quick time saver whenever I do web devlopment. Sure you can go to "tools options" or somewhere to enable it, but it was too much of a drag.

So there was no real reason for me to keep it. I like a couple of it's features but not enough to keep it around.

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avatarWeb development

Submitted by sekander94 on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 6:20pm

You do web development but you don't care about web standards? That's the cause of the problem in the first place.

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avatar I think hes refering to

Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 8:38am

 I think hes refering to Compatability Mode

IE before 8 had its own "standards" so a site viewed in IE8 with a browser check would break because all that IE specific code woulnt work in....IE...

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avatarfuture IE defector

Submitted by Queenof1 on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 12:40pm

I'm using IE7 but I want to switch to FF. I just keep forgetting to use it.

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avatarNo IE for me

Submitted by Wildebeast on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 10:56am

I gave up on IE, when 7 came out... massively bigger & working no better for me than the previous ver. The large number of patches is not encouraging, either.

I dunno, maybe it's all because I'm still riding 56k... Maybe someday they'll come up with a "light" version that would actually work for me.

I use FF, just upgraded to 3 on my desktop ---the memory problem did not impress me, on the laptop I'd upgraded earlier. (Luckily the cache status extension survived the upgrade.)

I tried Chrome a couple of months ago. I can't remember when I've seen a browser crash/lock-up so much. If I weren't totally attached to all my extensions [for keeping down all the garbage that comes with loading most web-pages] --Chrome might be use-able, once they fix it...

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avatarFireFox first, then IE8

Submitted by BobbyPhoenix on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 8:48am

Love the Fox for work, and ad free browsing.  Use it 90% of the time.  I switch to IE8 just for a change here and there, but I do like enough, and use it often enough, to be happy with it.  Especially with adblock ie (http://adblockie.codeplex.com/) which gets rid of most ads like adblock plus.

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avatarWhat browser are you using?

Submitted by leetNightshade on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 7:31am

I usually use Chrome for just quickly browsing the internet, but when I want to browse without losing a session, I use Firefox.  It's just the better all around browser since it has add-ons, unlike chrome.

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avatar chromes settings: Load

Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 8:46am

 chromes settings:

Load last used tabs on startup

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avatarPIZONWNED!!!!! lol, I am

Submitted by vistageek on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 7:24am

PIZONWNED!!!!!

lol, I am using google chrome. 

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