Comments on: IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain

Microsoft's browser has steadily lost ground to its competitors in the past year, with most of the drop coming from slippage by Internet Explorer 6.

[drbyte]

Its getting harder and harder for Microsoft to hide it's shortcomings. For every Microsoft App you can find a better solution, often several. Chrome is a lot of fun to use now. I forgot how fast the web is suppose to come with a good connection.

[xcal78]

Quote: "Immitation is the highest form of flattery"

[lucasatpangym]

Great! May IE die sooner better than later! May their horrible piece of sick codes disappear for ever! These guys from Microsoft have made life impossible for web developers for way too long. The great public won't know about this but anyone who had to write JavaScript always have to plan multiple "Microsoft Internet version X" exceptions, this solely because the monopolizing giant and the ego driven people at the top are unable to agree with the rest of the web developers community. May IE be buried deep and rot to its end.

[kolotyluk]

My recent experiences with IE8 RC1: it takes over 10 times as long to install as FireFox or Chrome; it requires a system restart; it was dead as a brick after restarting; I had to re-register IEProxy.dll and restart my system a second time to get it working. Just like IE7, IE8 continues to fail on a great many Microsoft web pages, whereas these same pages work fine in FireFox and Chrome. Interestingly enough, IE has the most problems with Microsoft's own web sites. It is absolutely criminal that you can only do certain Windows functions using Internet Explorer, yet Microsoft's own browser does not even work correctly with their own web sites.

FireFox is still my preferred browser, but I might use Chrome more if it were more feature complete.

Don't get me started on how bad MS Outlook is...

Cheers, Eric

[monkeyfun14]

You guys do realize that once Firefox gets top marketshare they will most likely start to get lazy.

It's already starting to happen tbh

[Dons2]

I dont like how IE opens up a new window whenever you left click on a link. Firefox and Chrome default to open in another tab. I don't know if their is a setting for it, I haven't been able to find it in the options. Other than that I actually like IE8.

[namewithheld]

I have always just used IE and it worked, but recently i am ready to switch to anything else and it has nothing to do with the browswer itself - its MS. First off, i cant seem to get updates for security unless i download ie 7, ie 6 was ok. Secondly now that ie 7 was forced on me, i cant get it to have a default page, set it, it is saved... but it always comes up on another page about setting options. Say what? Just work, that is what the browswer should do i would think. Its almost like MS Windows Explorer, i cant get it to display directories correctly after about 7 years of setting it correctly (what 4 OS versions now?) and they still cant let the settings a user makes take effect (show files in detailed list - it still shows icons... i set it, but for some reason the option is in the application, why i dont know the app ignores it. Why, i dont use MS Windows explorer either.

[bertspace]

Wow.... I think someone needs to start a discussion on "standards". :-)

[Dr. Zoltar]

I'd use IE 7 more if:

1) It was as fast as Firefox.
2) It didn't crash as often as it does.

Right now if you are running IE7 on Vista and have Adobe Flash installed, it will crash every time you access a site that uses Flash. And neither Adobe nor MS seem interested in fixing the problem.

Firefox is just more stable than IE7 right now.

[paula6429]

Not sure if anyone else has run into this, but when i downloaded IE8 i can no longer use my bank's online banking. It lets me log on, but then gives me a "timed out message" when i try to go any fruther. Called my bank and they told me that their site wasnt compatible with IE8 and I would have to use Firefox.

[queticomn]

Sorry I'm late here. I'm sorry bias C-Net/CBS, chrome has leveled off where as FireFox an Safari are growing exponentially in use/growth.

There is also Google's Chrome to consider. Although its usage rate has settled in around 0.7 percent after an initial surge of downloads by the curious.

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/IE-on-Losing-Flank-in-Browser-Wars-66065.html

I now read SoftPedia before C-Net/CBS. their way less bias, they keep users updated on Linux an Linux repositories. They also have more an better downloads. An most programs featured on cnet also are available on SoftPedia.

http://www.softpedia.com/