You Are Probably Not Using Internet Explorer to Read This

[Popcicle42]

Well, lets see here. I'm currently reading this on IE. I use Chrome and Firefox at work. And when I'm working on websites, I use Safari, just to check that it's displaying correctly.

I guess I'm just equal opportunity.

 

[DayDark]

Firefox.

Just thinking about someone watching me through E makes me feel like taking a bath.

 

[Icehearted]

Ironically, I tried Firefox ages ago and hated it, stuck with IE until 7, which I finally 'got' tab browsing, but IE7 was just awful; slow, constantly crashing, freezing my PC, so I figured it's been yeas since I'd tried Firefox, so why not try it again. That was around build 2.4

Thanks MS, for convincing me to migrate.

 

[mezmerizer02]

someone really needs to explain to me how you can tell the difference in milliseconds on webpage downloads between all of the browsers. firefox is a memory hog and certainly not faster than ie8. but then again, it's a matter of time that equates to less than a second. mere fractions.

 

[Michael Dagastino]

Safari (Mac)

That's a pretty good browser. If it worked better on my laptop id use it instead of Firefox.

To me, almost everything is better than IE.

 

[Keepitclean]

I'm using it because my computer is too crap to run anything else that I can be bothered getting my hands on.

 

[snow]

49.9% surprises me as well. I was thinking the number would be a lot less. Now I wonder what the number would be if I didn't get firefox for others who were still using IE. Then again to sit down and figure out how many people there are in the world minus the people that don't use computers or the internet is too much work for simple curiosity.

so I'm just going to assume .50 or 1% but even then that's probably a LOT more than what it really would be. Especially considering I don't remember the exact number of people I turned off from IE.

 

[joshuaayt]

Hm... Well, I use Firefox now, true enough... Chrome keeps vanishing right off my computer, for no adequately resolved reasons, and IE appears to be generally buggy.

That said, one thing I've noticed about Firefox and Chrome, something that positively differentiates Internet Explorer's service from theirs, is that Internet Explorer never decided to stop responding to anything, including the Task Manager's end task command, for upwards of half an hour.

If I didn't have a virus that kept redirecting my IE search pages to advertisments for low cost holidaying and/or pornography, I'd probably consider using it again, purely so I don't have to cry internally when I see the CPU-100% indicator flashing up at me.

 

[SMILEYkyle21]

this needs a poll

 

[thingymuwatsit]

IE: the best internet browser for downloading another browser.

 

[brainfreeze215]

I'm on firefox. I do really like Chrome, but firefox has the master password function, so it wins.

 

[Crowser]

Firefox ftw
Never really had a problem with IE, worked perfectly fine, Firefox just has more features...

 

[tthor]

This is a pretty biased poll though because what comes boxed with every new computer? IE

So most of the business users will be using IE not through choice or ease of use, but of necessity - despite Chrome/Firefox/Safari being better.

Apart from all those with Itunes that have Safari anyway. (Oh, you clicked "Do Not Install"? Re-check your system...it was included with one of their auto-updates)

not necisarily, the laptop my dad got from his company he works for came preloaded with firefox, among other programs. even my school computers now have Firefox available on them. IE is definitely losing ground, and at an accelerating rate.

 

[Madara XIII]

I use IE and it's pretty fast for me.

Yes I admit it!! I use INTERNET EXPLORER!!!

What you gonna do about it?!

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Google Chrome is the way to go. Easy, fast, and reliable.

 

[xXDeMoNiCXx]

Firefox for life.

 

[Madara XIII]

And you would be wrong.

I prefer IE, simply because it is compatable with EVERYTHING.

TY

 

[himemiya1650]

It's not a lack of innovation or something like that, I just enjoy using my web browser to browse, instead of my screen being loaded with useless toolbars. With that said I stick with chrome

 

[crimsonshrouds]

im using internet explorer