Comments on: Do You Still Use Internet Explorer?

By: collaboration software

collaboration software — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:07:54 +0000

I dont use IE at all. It gets struck often (I use windowsxp) and I observed more and more virus attacking my laptop when I tried IE. I use firefox.

By: Breach Software

Breach Software — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:52:50 +0000

I will recomended firefox

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:41:24 +0000

Call them niches if you like, but I’d put things bigger categories than that.

Basically “Business and education” generally use IE, along with people who just “buy a computer” – the same people who believe you need a £600 machine because you want to email big files and multitask – and never know any better (the sooner IE is de-bundled from windows, the better)

I tend to find that on any of my “general” sites – the sort of thing that I’d consider an older person would look for – a real ale guide, for example – IE is dominant. As soon as you bring younger people into the equation, the firefox takeup rockets.

I’d love to do a survey of a University and check browsing habits and I’d be willing to bet there’s some figures among under 30′s (and even moreso among under 25′s) that will scare the bejeezus out of Microsoft. I ran a graphics forum, primarily based around an MMORPG, a year or two back now – mostly 14-25 year olds, and 90% of my traffic was firefox.

By: Flash Drive

Flash Drive — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:54:43 +0000

I figured it depends on the niche. I also wonder if it depends on what region of the world you get your majority of visitors from.Financial Management

By: MMA

MMA — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:53:18 +0000

I use IE for windows update and to view my websites to make sure they look good to those that still use IE as a browser.

By: http://www.golfnorwich.com/

http://www.golfnorwich.com/ — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:27:21 +0000

I use firefox and firefox portable (on a thumbdrive. I only use IE for windows update.
http://www.golfnorwich.com/

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:23:15 +0000

usa,
Do you use Firefox exclusively then?

By: usa newspapers news

usa newspapers news — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:16:26 +0000

Firefox is more useful than others because they serve very good add-ons so it is like open source.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:46:24 +0000

floors4U,
Makes sense to me.

Phil,
I hear you.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:50:43 +0000

I LOVE FIREFOX

By: http://www.floors4u.net/

http://www.floors4u.net/ — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:52:54 +0000

I use IE for windows update and to view my websites to make sure they look good to those that still use IE as a browser.

http://www.floors4u.net/

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:01:15 +0000

Juan,
I certainly hear what you’re saying. It’s one of the reasons I like open-source so much. What other favs do you have on Linux?

By: Juan Perez

Juan Perez — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:17:24 +0000

There are several reasons why I use Firefox, and it would take a lot of typing to explain them. But the most important thing is that Firefox it is multisystem program so that if I decide to leave Linux behind I will probably not need to start using another browser. This is not very important in the case of a web browser, but for programs you use to record information it is, based on my (very long) experience as a computer user, a make or break deal, so I use this policy for as many programs as I can.
Regards.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:42:48 +0000

Alex,
I hear you – me neither.

Dave,
Sounds right.

huckle,
I’m not a fan of IE/7 at all, though I am happy that some of the css issues have been fixed. But I find it still to be inferior to FF, Opera – and most Mac browsers.

Eric,
Me too. Really, there’s no reason for them to do this crap any longer. In the past it was about separating themselves from Netscape. Once they buried Netscape it was about integration with FrontPage. All-in-all, it wasn’t the consumers, designers, or web coders they had in mind. And with IE7, we still see some of that to be true.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:56:31 +0000

This makes me happy to see. I am not impressed with the now critical update (IE7)
I was trying to set up a flash mp3 player on webpage and it will not work in IE7 but works fine in all other browsers including IE6. I am getting tired of Microsoft doing there own thing and making everyone suffer. Don’t get me wrong microsoft can do somethings great but have been nothing but a headache with browsers.

By: huckle

huckle — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:48:36 +0000

I use FF on both of my macs, and my PC. When I first made the switch, I only had one computer, a pc, and as soon as I found out there were alternatives to IE (5.5 at the time) I tried them all. FF got me with its security features at first, and it just carried on from there. Once I got the SU toolbar I just couldn’t go to another browser like opera without having to keep switching to FF to do my stumbling – which seemed ludicrous to me. Recently I bought two macs cheap (they’re old slot-loading G3s, £65 each!) and didn’t even think twice about getting FF for them. True, FF isn’t very mac-like, but I use the iFox theme to give it that aqua edge.

I’ve already converted my mum and several friends to the way of the fox and always persevere until people at least try it. There seems to be a big fear among non-techie people about installing software, especially when their firewall kicks up a stink cos it needs access to the internet. It’s just easier in their minds to use IE7, which still needs some major improvements before it’s anywhere near the quality of browser that FF is.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:26:22 +0000

My website sees about 80% Firefox and about 19% IE. Safari, Opera and all the others have under 1%.

The interesting thing is that my site is all about computer security and website security in particular.

I suspect security engineers prefer Firefox because of plugins like TamperData and LiveHTTPHeaders.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:15:18 +0000

If you don’t like IE as I do and love Firefox, just use IE Tab extension, and you will never run IE to see how a page look in IE

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1419

Alex

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:48:43 +0000

Palm Coast,

I figured it depends on the niche. I also wonder if it depends on what region of the world you get your majority of visitors from.

By: Palm Coast

Palm Coast — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:00:42 +0000

I personally use Firefox, like most web developers. I have sites where IE is used more than Firefox and some where Firefox is used more than IE, it all depends on the niche and how computer savvy your users are.