Comments on: Firefox to surpass IE? Yes, but only among the geeks

Firefox will soon surpass IE in market share...but not among the mainstream.

[BlazingSpeed]

The reason that I still use IE is because Firefox used to crash to doggone much (on crazy sites like Myspace, Music videos, and Anime related sites...).

It hasn't happened with Firefox 3 yet but some School related things are only compatible with IE so until I get my CIS degree I'll have to keep IE no matter what.

[abstractpenguin]

I use Firefox because I enjoy the awesome address bar (inline search to save time typing URLs) and other customization options. (Although before Firefox 3, I used Safari for speed.)

As a web developer, I design for Firefox and then fix for IE/Safari. Especially since our target market has about an even split of Firefox and IE users.

[dianaedwards]

My last edition of Firefox crashed and wouldn't load just as I was contemplating the new download, so I deleted it. I now use Safari for all my email links because it is fast and efficient although ugly - not colourful - and simple - you can choose not show toolbars etc. When I want fun I go to Google Chrome and enjoy my new igoogle which is working beautifully, plays tunes, show pictures, even pacman, keeps the granddaughter amused. But my home page on IE7 is My Yahoo and takes ages to load, the tabs are clunky, I have a toollbar download which is superfluous and I don't know how to remove it. I had a toolbar before which was spyware but I managed to track that down and get rid of it. I await the upgrade to 8 just so I can get rid of 7.

[WulfTheSaxon]

Depends on how "elite" the group of users you're referring to is. IMHO, the technical elite do not, in fact, use IE. W3Schools is a rather noobish site that is generally laughed at for its bad coding practices. For a while, there wasn't much else -- but I've been uniformly referring newbies to HTML Dog instead for a good while now.