While Firefox made gains and passed IE6 in usage, total IE usage lost more than a point, continuing its downward trend of losing market share almost every month for about 5 years. Link
Firefox with its add-ons is surely the best browser. Microsoft is not taking much care in the development of browser. As of now it is just concentrating on Windows 7 only.
I had no idea they were still at 64%. Don't think anyone at MS is crying over that. I use firefox but have warmed up to safari as well.
Maybe it's a dieing breed! I agree if it didn't come with windows and right in front of everyones faces it probably would be used even less and would have died along time ago.
I don't know if you have experienced the same problem, but for me, if i use firefox a lot then eventually it bloats up the memory and has a sqllite file that really becomes huge overtime =\ So for me chrome is my favourite browser but i use firefox for plugins. Thats what makes ff really good and makes me use it the most But if i don't need plugins, then i use chrome normally. As for IE, I stopped using it as soon as there were alternatives... actually i used IE3 i think for some time and that version was not so bad... IE6+ = very bloated in a way, slow, crashes usually, etc. So this does not surprise me much =\
Its good to see Firefox is gaining ground. A big victory for open Source. Internet Explorer used to be great back during the days of version 3, 4, and 5. however, it tailed off after Netscape died. MS had no competition for far too long in the browser market.
i totally agreed with that. without preinstalled with windows nobody will care to use or install it. at least they should make to to be opensource for plugins like firefox.
IE8 - work just like FF3.3 - but Chrome gosh - it fast. But one drawbacks - I just hate the underline links. Wonder if anyone knows how to disable the underline.
I think IE will losing their popularity as firefox have more unique plugins and style. IE still use the old boring template.
Until it becomes illegal to build an internet browser into an operating system with no means of uninstalling it, IE will hang onto its large user base. I don't foresee usage of IE going down that quickly. Too many PC's have the IE icon on the desktop. Too many older people don't understand that there is an alternative to IE. And even fewer know how to go downloaded it and install it. If your an IT admin out there delete the IE icon off your desktop!
FF is backed by Google, that is why he is gaining market. if IE not installed in MS window than it may loss more market.