electronista.com — Firefox 3 has become the first non-Microsoft web browser to overtake Internet Explorer 6 in market share, according to new data from StatCounter. The open source browser climbed to 24 percent of users in February while IE6 dipped to just over 22.6 percent, making Firefox the second most popular browser by individual versions.
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flashcat7777Mar 5, 2009
I don't subscribe to these new-fangled fox-fires.
yetanothercrocMar 6, 2009
looking at OS stats for Antarctica it looks like its just one guy triple booting WinXP, Win2003 and Linux they all get 100% at different times and none of them are ever on at the same time.
wiseweaselMar 6, 2009
What a bad grandson. Can't you just remote access her computer and do it for her? Or hell, it wouldn't kill you to visit once in a while!
atomic1fireMar 6, 2009
IE6 is still very much around. because businesses will tend to upgrade slower then others
Closed AccountMar 6, 2009
W/e I used IE for a long time and ever had any issues, you all just hate on Microsoft all you want
satcomerMar 6, 2009
Well the only reason I see that fireFox can really take on IE6 is corporations upgrading their equipment. Most daytime web surfing done at work. Now with this drastic economic downturn it will be long time before IE 6 can truly disappear from the net.
freeiphone4meMar 14, 2009
I think people are beginning to realise firefox is an alternative now. But lots still don't know you can have a different browser. I have optimized my site <a class="user" href="http://www.freeiphone4me.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.freeiphone4me.co.uk</a> to work on firefox - it looks odd on IE6
dalewatkinsOct 1, 2009
Regardless of where the other users from went, I want to know why people are still using IE6 and have not upgraded.Post your reason here as a reply or go here: <a class="user" href="http://dalewatkins.com/archives/2009/09/if-you-are-using-ie6-why/" rel="nofollow">http://dalewatkins.com/archives/2009/09/if-you-are ...</a>
johnnysoftwareDec 2, 2009
You cannot look at IE regardless of versions. The different versions contain wrenching changes from each other. Some versions cannot fully emulate older versions because the bugs were too fundamental.Moreover, intra-IE version compatibility where it does exist is kind of moot because IE is heading in the direction of Firefox.Firefox is already W3 compliant. IE is catching up. Therefore, if you target W3 & Firefox primarily, and then check/adjust to be compatible with IE8 - you are hitting the mark in terms of present browsersThe IE6 compatibility is kind of moot because ex-developers and current IT-workers have stated that they cannot modify their old IE6 applications. Lost their source code, lost their teams/know-how - whatever the reason, they can't update their old apps. So they are dying from "software rot" which is something that has been a recognized danger in the industry since the 1970's at least.Microsoft needs to come up with a way to support multiple versions of the IE browser itself on the same Windows computer but they fused the poor IE to the OS, so that makes it tough to do. However, until they do - IE6, IE7, IE8, and the IE9 that might come out in alpha form next year are 4 different applications.Firefox and Safari are different than IE in that sense. Since Apple and Mozilla were not so stubbornly against adhering to W3 standard specifications, they did not have to make radical changes from one version to the next - just incrementally add new features.Another advantage non-IE browsers have impacts their status too. Safari (and Mac OS X) get updated right away for the majority of their users. The same is true of Firefox. Most Windows users - the only platform that can run IE are running Windows XP - a 2001 model year OS.The Windows platform market share is gradually but very steadily shrinking as well. Which means IE market share is shrinking even faster than Firefox is stealing it.Developers inside and Microsoft probably need to start planning for a "soft landing" for IE users when IE dies. Clearly, that is going to happen before Windows or Microsoft dies.
johnnysoftwareDec 2, 2009
Tell that to all the people who got infected by drive-by web virus attacks while running IE on Vista.
johnnysoftwareDec 2, 2009
Exactly. Firefox 3.5 is Firefox 3.0 plus more stuff. Firefox 3.0 is Firefox 2.5 plus more stuff, etc.IE 8 is a big modification of IE7, plus more stuff. IE7 is a big modification to IE6, plus a little more stuff. The whole box model and stuff changes as you bump up through recent versions of IE. It is very disruptive to HTML and CSS code; not to mention DHTML and other ways of generating the pages.When you upgrade in Firefox, you gain W3 web Standard features - like SVG support.In IE, you don't. Microsoft has a proprietary 2D graphics language (VML) so they refuse to implement the W3 Standard's fast vector graphics (SVG). They refuse to implement the W3 standard's Canvas tag that everyone else does.That is why the usage statistics for recent versions of IE are presented broken out, as well as in aggregate - whereas Firefox and Safari are usually just presented in aggregate.
johnnysoftwareDec 2, 2009
Right. Because IE6 and IE7 are incompatible.
johnnysoftwareDec 23, 2009
Well, then it is no longer pointless. Firefox 3.6 now has more share than IE7. Or IE8, for that matter. Or IE6.
johnnysoftwareDec 23, 2009
That is what happens when you fuse the web browser to the operating system and to the OS software version update utility, among other things. Other OS vendors did not do that.They kept the web browser as an application, avoiding the upgrade problems IE has. Also, they did not veer so far off course of the W3 web standards as IE6 did. So, their users have less compatibility problems with each upgrade than IE users face.
johnnysoftwareDec 23, 2009
IE has been steadily dropping for a long time, and Firefox has been steadily rising for a long time. Users are dropping IE for Firefox, no question. The rate is steady. While it is not happening super rapidly, it is not happening very slowly either.IE is balkanized into 3 separate, pretty mutually incompatible versions. The layout rules in IE keep changing, even though they have not changed in the W3 standard. This is one reason why the other web browsers have little trouble getting users & developers to upgrad eo the new version, but IE does.
johnnysoftwareDec 23, 2009
Right, IE6 is almost as old as both OSX 1.0 and Wnidows XP. It is just months younger than each of those 2 operating system versions. It is really old.
johnnysoftwareDec 23, 2009
No, probably on IE8. IE7 is going to die rapidly from IE8 coming out. Not much reason to hang with IE7 instead of IE8.
johnnysoftwareDec 23, 2009
You missed the point of the World Wide Web.
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