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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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Cruzg10
January 13, 2010 at 2:52pm
wow poeple still use IE and modems?? takes me back to the ol' days, back when burning a music CD at 4x was Blazing speed and WinMX ruled after the fall of Napster
bart3385
July 08, 2009 at 3:57am
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....
atomaweapon
July 06, 2009 at 6:10pm
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.
sekander94
July 06, 2009 at 7:20pm
You do web development but you don't care about web standards? That's the cause of the problem in the first place.
nekollx
July 07, 2009 at 9:38am
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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Queenof1
July 06, 2009 at 1:40pm
I'm using IE7 but I want to switch to FF. I just keep forgetting to use it.
Wildebeast
July 06, 2009 at 11:56am
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...
BobbyPhoenix
July 06, 2009 at 9:48am
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.
leetNightshade
July 06, 2009 at 8:31am
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.
nekollx
July 06, 2009 at 9:46am
chromes settings:
Load last used tabs on startup
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