[GeronL]

IE6?? 13.89%...

say wha...?

Free download people!!

[CedarDave]

I still run IE6 and will until they stop security upgrades. Firefox is my browser as I use a bunch of addons including those that make commenting on FR a lot easier, primarily bbXtra.

[lardog]

Well, I don’t know if anyone else has had this problem, but I down loaded IE8 and my browsing was slowed down to nearly a halt. I uninstalled IE8 and went back to IE6 and everything works fine.

[Dr. Sivana]

IE6?? 13.89%...

say wha...?

Free download people!!

Perfectly reasonable. Some websites run better on IE6. There are also a number of Win 98se boxes out there running specialty apps that have not and will not be updated to Windows 2000+ anytime soon.

IE6 uses fewer resources and works better on older units with less RAM

The free download may not be trivial for those with 56K modems.

And some people just say, "If it ain't broke..."

[Zack Attack]

Free download people!!

So what? :)

I actually still use Firefox 2.0 because some of my favorite add-ons and themes are not Firefox 3 ready.

[Mr Fuji]

I’m sure some of the IE6 users are wanting to use the older version for a specific reason. I would bet that the majority of those still using IE6 are the less tech savvy users who aren’t even aware that there are different/newer versions of software available and are using whatever came on their computer at the time.

[papasmurf]

“IE6?? 13.89%...”

Those are Windows 2K people, and people using another browser for everything else, but needing IE for some special purposes.

[rarestia]

Our entire IT department’s browser standard is IE6. Our intranet was developed using old tech, and it doesn’t work correctly in anything other than IE6. So what do they do? They keep an unstable garbage browser in production instead of requiring that internal sites be upgraded.