Hot on the heels of the news that Windows 7 had crossed the 10% mark, the Internet Explorer team had something of their own to crow about.
Internet Explorer 8 is now the worlds single most popular internet browser, being the program of choice for some 25.6% of all internet users. Of course, as any web developer will tell you, if any of those users came at the expense of IE 6, then good on Microsoft.
Internet Explorer 8 is built by Microsoft who has pushed the browser like rickety a cart up a steep hill, with gusto. Even past their huge advertising budgets, you have to give Microsoft credit for so quickly taking their new browser to the number one spot, even in the face of a new enemy (Chrome), and an entrenched competitor (Firefox).
They almost made it look easy.
Internet Explorer is a rather unpopular brand in the technology world, with many complaining that it breaks code that other browsers have no problem rendering, and is slow enough to hurt the user’s internet experience. It consistently fails standards tests, and seems to always lag behind in features, its larger development budget failing to help.
The Microsoft had a number of horns to blow in their blog post, saying that “as of today, Internet Explorer 8 has done over 350 million malware blocks… Internet Explorer 7 and 8 have blocked a total of over 125 million phishing sites… We launched just less than a year ago, so it’s both humbling and thrilling to see so many people choose our product so quickly.”
All I can ask is how can we help these people move from Internet Explorer, and to a modern browser? Between Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and even Maxthon, there is a fit for everyone. No one should have to use Internet Explorer without knowing what else is an option.
For all the bugs IE has, it's still the most secure.
That is 100% not true.
IE8 is a modern browser. Though could do with regular feature updates like Chrome and Firefox.
Alex, IE8 is not nearly as bad as IE6 was. I mean, I know it's not Firefox or Chrome, but it's at least a reasonable alternative now.
I have been using Chrome since it came out on my business laptop and my home PC and love it – big fan of Google though, so somewhat biased here. One complaint is that after market toolbars cannot be installed on chrome (I believe) and it does not update automatically – you must tell it to check first. I very seldom experience crashes (I think three with both computers in this time) and it is quick on my wireless dial up at home. It maybe does not have all the bells and whistles that IE8 has, but at least I do not have to support MS also.
I've used Firefox 3.6, Chrome and IE8 now for a while, checking all kinds of sites “for apparent broken code” and so far IE8 holds up the best. Firefox 3.6 and Chrome seems to have the same issues on a number of sites, including Facebook for example, by refusing to show tags in photos (you have to refresh a number of times before they show up).
Internet Explorer 8 in my opinion is the best browser out there…and I cant see the “slowness”…if it even exists.
IE8 is a modern browser.
What you mean is a modern browser that pulls off at _least_ 50% in acid3 and some basic html5 tags like canvas and video.
How so?
Now what can you say !
Some people who use internet donet even know that the Explorer is just a browser and there better versions available out there ,nwebies are misleaded as if the explorer itself is the Internet
i wront a funny/sarcastic post on IE ,check out
http://pcgamersera.com/2010/01/once-upon-a-time…
chrome is cool and the 4.0 has new features that really add charm to it
http://pcgamersera.com/2010/01/chrome-4-0whats-…
but it is quite more unstabe and at times i am experiencing 3 crashes every hour.If thats fixed chrome would be no.1 in my list .Until then Firefox FTW
A post I read here from June of 2009-
Google asked people in Times Square: “What is a browser?”. The responses will shock you.
I can't remember where, but I read that about 80% of users don't know what a browser is.
Of course IE is popular – it comes with Windows, people use what will get them on the Internet.
I think what we have to realize is, most people are not geeky enough to care. I don't use IE, I don't even use Windows anymore. Most people do.
As of right now, I think the safest way to browse is Firefox with noscript on any platform but Windows.
All IMHO of course.
Huh? This doesn’t mean very much.
Net Applications (who provided the data) says: “This report lists the market share of the top browsers in use. This data is derived by aggregating the traffic across our network of websites that use our service. ”
Their networks.
W3c schools says Firefox holds 46.9% market share, and IE8 only 16%
They also acknowledge that is only their traffic too:
“These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.”