My mother doesn't even know there are multiple browsers. She just uses IE to see her email and check on some TV shows.
Why don't you fix that for her? My mother-in-law constantly loaded up with malware and virii cause she would click on anything and everything that told her to. Every six months or so I'd have to reformat her computer and reinstall cause chasing down the problems wasn't worth the effort. It's still a problem but far, far less once I installed Firefox for her.
That is it . Actually only a small portion of people like webmaster who knows so much about computer and internet. A large portion of people who never heard of FF, opera, chrome, some even don't know FF is a substitution of IE .
Currently i have 2 browsers , i use IE to access the page easily ,but i am more often to Mozilla for pc protection purposes.
I don't use IE anymore but when I did I thought it was the coolest thing...until my hubby who works with computers told me that you can get a lot of viruses using it.
the reason is that this is default explorer in windows os and maximum people in this world use microsoft os. and only web professionals use other browsers other wise normal people dont know about any other browsers.
And what does that tell you? That web professionals, the people who know how things work, don't use IE. What does that tell us about IE? If every carpenter you saw was walking around with a DeWalt drill, and none of them used Black & Decker, which drill should you be using?
I agree with you that IE comes with windows and users don't need to install browser in there system and many people don't know about other web browsers and how to download and install it.
I agree. In fact that is one of the major reasons why IE has more users. Some people think that IE is the default browser for any operating system.