I'm not endorsing Firefox, per se, but if you are using IE, you are definitely dealing with attacks , I no longer see.
Reports are that Microsoft's next full IE release (not a point release) will be for Vista only (hopefully that's old info and they've regained their sanity). If so, it's the best gift third-party browsers could ever ask for...
Internet Exploder just blows - it's just a virus-transportation system, like that piece of crap Outlook.
I use Firefox, of course, like most intelligent folks, but anything is better than IE. Did I mention that IE blows?
Ping!
"falling from 8.7% to 8.1 % in July..." = "demise" ??
I don't think Mr. Bill is losing a whole lot of sleep over it yet, but a fractional drop like that hardly qualifies as a "demise". I just love reporters...
I really like using FF been using it for over a year now. But my favorite is Thunderbird. i love getting RSS feeds. i check them out many times during the day and most of my favorite bloggers are right there in my email. if outlook has this feature ive never unlocked the secret to it.So I will stay with FF and Thunderbird. oh and im posting on tab #3
As soon as I got a windows PC and internet I downloaded Netscape..
I eventually graduated to Mozilla, then to Firefox..
I have never looked back..
The only way I would use IE7 or any other MS browser is if absolutely nothing else was available..
My brother uses IE(6?)/Outlook , and AdAware finds major "bugs" after every use..
I can use Firefox all day/week long and not get the bug alerts he gets with one internet session..
My rule:
Always do Adware/Spyware/Virus scans after EVERY use of IE / Outlook.
I began playing with browsers when I heard about Netscape Mosaic. It was still beta at the time, I think somewhere around 0.71. I stuck with Netscape for years, and used it alongside Internet Explorer on several computers. But MSIE kept getting better while Mosaic lagged behind and continued to have instability problems.
A lot of people have a kind of instinctive hatred of Bill Gates and Microsoft as a monopolistic bully. But Internet explorer is just plain better and faster than the various forms that Netscape has morphed into. I think the reason for the numbers is that a lot of uninformed users went over to Firefox because many publications pushed it. Then they got tired of it and reverted.
Confirmed Firefox users are another kettle of fish. Presumably they will stick with it.
People are suprised by this?! I use FireFox, I like FireFox, but FireFox was never going to replace IE, there never was a fight, all there happened was IE had a couple of so-so months.
Demise? A 0.6% decline in market share is a demise?
I'm no IE fan - you've flamed me before, but in the interest of accuracy, I'll point out a Firefox download doesn't equate to a Firefox adoption. To update to the latest point release, you have to do a new download. You can't just do an update. So if you want to update from 1.0 to the current verision, you do a download and get counted again. Or at least it was that way when I last updated to 1.0.3.
Look at this way. IF IE didn't come with windows and people had to actually choose a browser, what do you think they would choose in a side by side comparison between FF and IE? It will just take more time, new marketing approaches and it'll be a never ending battle. I don't think FF is fading, just that it has peaked for a certain demographic.
Simple fact of the matter is that if someone told me they got a virus using IE, I wouldn't hire them to work on my network because they've defined themselves as an enthusiast, not a professional.
FYI
A completely unscientific review of hits at my sites show IE with a 69% share, FF/Moz/Netscape gets a 24% share.
