It’s not surprising that Internet Explorer still dominates as the top browser.
The majority of computers sold in the United States are PC’s with the Windows OS. Many consumers are content to just use IE because it is a browser that is already there.
Of course, IE’s share of the browser market is slowly shrinking. CNET has a nice looking chart showing what it looks like:
As you can see, that long blue bar is slowly shrinking. As users become more savvy, they’ll continue to look at other solutions such as Chrome and/or Firefox.
So. Who amongst the 8BIT community at large still uses Internet Explorer?
Don’t be shy… be proud…!
You seriously think someone would openly say they use IE?
I’m sure some of them exist.
What’s more interesting is the decrease in FF and increase in Chrome.
You should never be proud to use IE.
I’m one of the ones that moved to Chrome (for the most part) as FF was getting to be too much of a memory hog. Once Chrome started getting extensions, it was easy to change over.
The synced bookmarks are just a killer feature.
I use IE … to download Firefox.
Then I use Firefox to download Chrome. (I use Chrome for general browsing, and Firefox for developing.)
While there’s certainly no “best” browser for developing, I enjoy Safari a lot more for dev.
But that’s not the point of this comment. On my otherwise-speedy Macbook, Firefox is slower than my grandma in the morning. If it hasn’t been opened in a few hours, it’ll take 20 seconds to boot up. Safari takes like 5. Is this everyones experience? Or is there something I’m missing.
I have so many add ons in Firefox that it takes up about 90MB of RAM before it even appears. But I use all the add ons when developing and testing, which is why I use Chrome for general browsing. I also have Opera and Safari, but I use those for testing. Of course I also have the latest version of IE, also for testing.
That’s good. That’s my progression as well!
Most people that I know that still use IE as their primary browser don’t do any web development.
I’ve abandoned Firefox, not because of the memory usage, but because of the speed, the tabs on top and overall small size of the interface. Chrome runs on all of the platforms I care about, yes, the sync feature is awesome. Firefox 4 is too little too late, sadly. I’m not sure how they can stand the test against Chrome.
I use IETester (http://ow.ly/2zKxB) for cross-browser testing in Windows, but that’s the extent of IE for me.
I use IE for work (PC based) & Chrome at home (Mac).