Posted on 05/04/2010 1:38:10 PM PDT by Nachum
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures. Latest statistics, from measurement firm NetApplications, show that IE has 59.9% of the market, with Firefox gaining on it, with 24.5%.
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oops.. I meant practically nothing works WITHOUT IE being installed.
:)
Safari rules. mmmm mmmm mmmmmm. one of the reasons we replaced the pc with our imac was that even with Firefox, we were being dropped, slowed and locked out although we were using webroot, and a bunch of other “products” costing between 30 and 50 dollars a pop. Symantec was a total disaster. it was frustrating. With the Imac we interface seamlessly with whatever we’ want. at present there is no need for costly protective as add-ons. (operative words are “at present.”) sd
Either you forgot the sarc> tag or are an imbecile and belong on DU.
What part of freedom do you not understand?
You advocate a government forced break-up of a company because they have the single best suite of integrated programs ever created?
Get a SERIOUS GRIP on what freedom means and leave the totalitarian musing off this fine board.
I like using F6 to highlight the URL bar. Handy! Plus Adblock plus and Xmarks addons rule.
Firefox
I like Chrome quite a bit. Fast with extensions.
I guess I just dont get it. Ie works fine for me.
If you are not using the fastest fox addon I recommend you try it out. Ad block plus is also a must have.
Actually, FF has stalled around the same figures for a long time and it’s Chrome that’s been gaining slowly over the other browsers.
Still, 59.9% of the browser market is quite an advantage for IE. The way FF has been going lately by getting bloated and slower, if they keep it up, they’ll never get over 25% of the browser market; in fact, I could see them losing market-share. And I surely will never go for the Chrome browser because it’s Google and I don’t trust Google with any of my information, and when it comes to information, most of it is now transacted over the internet.
For now, I use FF the most and IE for about 20% of the time.
However, what I’m developing is intended to work in all browsers; no bias there.
have you ever tried the f11 key?
“And I surely will never go for the Chrome browser because it’s Google and I don’t trust Google with any of my information, and when it comes to information, most of it is now transacted over the internet.”
There you go. I cannot trust Google.
Have you ever tried the "alt-f4" command?
I haven't; what does it do, reformat my hard drive?
No, I promise it doesn't do that. Try it now. And spoiler hint: Restart your browser afterwards.
It's a usability flaw with all the browsers now....IE6 didn't do that. With 6, when you moved to the bottom of the screen, the taskbar popped up.
Chrome has more browser space than any other.
They also had another little "feature" planned, that they ended up withdrawing because of a backlash that probably would have turned seriously ugly. They planned to use "keywords," which IE would turn into hotlinks to Microsoft partners. Here's how they envisioned it. IE would parse a document as it loaded, and if it found a keyword, like "digital camera" it would turn it into a hotlink to whichever digital camera manufacturer paid Microsoft the most money. Essentially, they planned to have hotlinked advertising on every web page, collecting the money, and giving none to the web page creator.
MS used a lot of their "negative engineering" tactics to make IE the dominant browser. They were one of the key contributors to the World Wide Web standards organization, but deliberately made Internet Explorer non-compliant. They realized that most programmers never read the W3 standards, and just started up IE and if it worked in IE, they knew they were good to go, as IE had a huge browser share. This made W3 compliant browsers look "broken."
MS became manic about making IE the dominant browser because they were convinced that whoever had the dominant browser would control the web. Once they figured out that browsers were going to be simply a vehicle for browsing content, and not a way to control it, they lost interest.
There was another reason they were so determined to kill Netscape. Netscape announced they were going to expand Navigator into a full operating system, using the web browser to browse local files. That's why MS welded the browser into the system and installed it by default. During this time period, they were quite a bit like King Herod, determined to kill competing companies before they could become a threat.
They're not nearly as jazzed about losing market share in the browser wars as they used to be.
Actually, if you know the move-navigation-to-the-menu-toolbar trick with Firefox, they end up with the exact same amount of viewing space.
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