Posted on 10/21/2009 5:54:13 PM PDT by george76
Computer Weekly, in association with ResearchNow Business, surveyed 500 users to discover which web browser they use at work and at home.
Over half of the panellists predicted IE 8+ was the browser that they will be using by the end of 2010, both personally and for their business.
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Many businesses I work with (some quite big) are still using IE6.
I prefer firefox myself.
As for IE6, why is anyone still using this. No one uses Netscape 4 anymore, right?
Almost two-thirds of users plan to upgrade to Windows 7 according to a survey of 1,500 IT managers .
I had nothing but trouble with IE7. But IE8 is working great on my laptop with WinXP-Pro. Or, to be more precise, it has worked great since I installed one of the early fixes last spring.
There is something wrong with a lot of corporate IT depts. IE6 is a steaming load, but it’s the steaming load the IT managers know, so it lives on as another way to crush the souls of those working in a corporate environment.
M$ has been putting out enormous piles of crap lately.
Me too, for a few years now. Maybe 2 or 3 times a year I will come across a website I have to use and it is has something special on it where Firefox won't work 100% properly and I have to use IE and I hate it.
I think it’s javascript that doesn’t play nice with Firefox, but firefox is more secure.
In large corporations you have to use what you are issued. It takes nearly a year to do a regression test with a full set of corporate applications running in a new browser, and very possibly many code changes will be needed.
That is why, when they have spent the last five years coding to a specific browser, they tend to hang on to it. They don’t care for their employees browsing the public internet anyway.
IE8 is quite good. I haven’t used Firefox until recently and was pretty impressed. It’s actually very good. I think I’ll still stick with IE8 though.
Google Chrome is a joke. It feels like early 2000’s era browsing at best. Haven’t used Opera in awhile to can’t compare it.
I like Google Chrome.
Clean simple performance.
That’s funny.
Me too. But what really makes Firefox the only browser I use with the internet is the NoScript add-on. Before I got it (NoScript), I would manually turn on JavaScript only for specific web sites that I needed to use and that wouldn't work without it; but then if I forgot to re-disable JavaScript before going on to another web site, I'd get blasted with crap. NoScript fixes this problem.
I also have recent versions of Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari; but I only use them for testing purposes to make sure web sites I maintain look right on multiple browsers.
IE8 is fine with me. I use Firefox and IE8 about 50/50 and have gotten plenty of viruses using Firefox.
That’s my experience too on XP. On my Vista machine an IE 7 security upgrage caused IE to hang often. Switch to 8 resolved problem.
Plenty of viruses? Where the heck are you surfing? I've been "internetually active" since 1994 and have yet to catch a virus with any browser, Firefox or otherwise.
As something of a hobby, I put together websites for friends and family. I do quite a bit of surfing through directories looking for design ideas. One of the worst infections I've had was by the Vundo rootkit while using Firefox on a National Park Service website.
I've been "internetually active" since 1994 and have yet to catch a virus with any browser, Firefox or otherwise.
I'm glad for you.
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