In the United States, IE8 is still ahead of Firefox 3.5, but in Europe, Firefox 3.5 as early as the summer becomes a most popular browser.
Good news for everyone. Developers, designers, no need for those IE hacks as IE is becoming the past.
Always good to balance views a bit - Stats are never absolute and the same applies to this one. According to Betanews:
Really it doesn't matter. The most important thing to look at is the trend. IE is losing market share to all other browsers. The trend for IE has been pointing downward for 5 years while the trend for all other browsers has been pointing upward. The graphs do show that when IE users upgrade, they have a tendency to switch to more modern browsers rather than IE8. That is truly significant and what all the charts show.
I've got a problem I'm using firefox 3.0 then I changed it to firefox 3.5 suddenly the page load of my browsers slows down?? I even apply some tweaks on it, What seems to be the problem??
I love firefox but i've had a lot of problems with memory leaks. I'm in college and in a habit of not switching off my laptop at night, I just put it on sleep mode. After a couple of days (and having no more than three tabs open), FF takes around 1 gig of RAM. Weird, but highly irritating.
I see FF (Firefox Fanboys) posting wrong stats here. I wish they knew how the demand paging in IE8 is better than the other browser which is developed by a bunch of part time developers. I have already read about FF users downloading their fav browser muliple times just to hit the higher number of downloads. Really desperate guys, need to get a life lol
According to statcounter, so the majority would still be using IE, and I dare say will continue to do so while MS still dominates the OS market. Although I haven't had a problem with FF, I have on some machines, and people I know use Chrome because FF doesn't work for them. IE (like, 4 I think?) worked fine at the time but hated not having tabs so went to NS, too cluttered so eventually moved to FF, but IE8 is just slow nearly everywhere I've used it in recent times.
Yes, it's weird. I have three boxes with Firefox that are rarely turned off and all of them are sitting at 168Mb or so with up to 8 tabs open. So your problem is definitely unique.
Then it's better than posting your lies. I would hate to be one of those Google, IBM, Sun, HP, Cisco or RedHat developers or paid Mozilla Foundation developers and hear you say that. So you read this on a forum of 12 year olds somewhere? At least that's better than having to be force fed by Microsoft their horrible IE browser considering it's the worst thing on the planet.
Firefox is the best , i don't like using other browser's . I'm used to Mozilla Firefox and the biggest reasons i like it , it's fast and easy and quick to use Firefox FTW!
I used to browse with Mozilla Firefox, then I found Google Chrome. For many people, Firefox will take up all of my CPU or just have a lot of lag. I changed over to Chrome and I'm never going back to Mozilla! Yugo,
I use Firefox by far the most, I just like how flexible it is. I can get all kinds of different add-ons to do whatever I like. Though I realize it's sacrilege on a site such as this I have to say my favorite add-on is AdBlocker, but it's no big loss for website owners as I never clicked ads anyway. I like Chrome as well, but only for certain situations. I really like the idea behind the Chrome OS as well, but I don't think I'd buy a system with only Chrome OS on it unless I got rich or something. If they ever make it so you can duel boot with other OS' I'll be down though. As for IE, I rarely use it of my own volition (I'm forced to use it at work) the only times being if I visit a site that doesn't appear properly in Firefox or Chrome, and even then I just use the IE Tab add-on for FF. If other people like IE that's cool, whatever is good for your tastes, I personally can't stand anything Apple related and reach for my remote whenever one of their asinine commercials comes on, but if other people like it that's OK.