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- ophello, on 01/30/2008, -6/+88Why wont IE just die already?
- luchid, on 01/30/2008, -18/+75I think the most worrying interpretation of this article is that around 80% of their population is STILL using IE, the worst browser ever known to mankind.
- Audacitor, on 01/30/2008, -2/+57Microsoft prays on stupid people who think the Internet is IE, and don't know about alternatives.
- ophello, on 01/30/2008, -7/+51first of all, spelling fanboy as fanboi makes you look like an idiot.
second of all, it is worse. - Schmich, on 01/30/2008, -1/+31It increases by 20%, it's not at 20%. I wonder who even bothered looking at the article...
- edgeofreason, on 01/30/2008, -1/+30People in United Kingdom apparently don't use the internet.
- salvadorwii, on 01/30/2008, -1/+29delete IE= Omg you deleted the internet!!!1!
- lcmatt, on 01/30/2008, -3/+29IE will always be a dominate force until Windows is no longer shipped pre-installed. Even so to take 20% from IE is still a great achievement by Mozilla.
- Tuto, on 01/30/2008, -3/+29Finland is awesome like always :)
- colonelbuckshot, on 01/30/2008, -2/+2366%
- ScottoGato, on 01/30/2008, -3/+22Can you be more specific?
- BlueSkyfish, on 01/30/2008, -1/+19You're right, it's 28%
- xXMetalJesusXx, on 01/30/2008, -1/+18I don't mind Safari for Windows...but why would I download one crappy Browser to replace another crappy browser...Apple Fanboys, Windows Fanboys, and linux fanboys all use Firefox...dumbass
- niceyuk, on 01/30/2008, -1/+17its almost 30%
- fanas, on 01/30/2008, -0/+15Well ...... yes
- vvortex3, on 01/30/2008, -13/+28***** Microsoft in the ass with rusty farm equipment
- Privil3g3, on 01/30/2008, -28/+42IE can't be any worse than Safari on windows? Digg me down apple fanbois!
- Audacitor, on 01/30/2008, -5/+18I get the memory leaks part, but I don't know where you're pulling this crashing business from. I've running 20+ extensions and on average, I experience one crash per three weeks.
- quarando, on 01/30/2008, -0/+13Unfortunately, 'Not that bad' is an apt description of most Microsoft products
- BlueSkyfish, on 01/30/2008, -1/+13Internet Explorer doesn't follow rendering standards, which is hell for web designers. You have to spend hours trying to optimize your CSS code so it shows properly in IE.
There is something called the Acid2 test that tests a browser's rendering ability. Firefox2 has some issues, but it's still pretty good. Firefox3, Opera, Wii's internet channel, Safari all pass the test. All versions of IE fail. hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2 - inactive, on 01/30/2008, -1/+13Finland loves Conan and Firefox.
- haveacigar, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10Al Gore will be pissed..
- dorkslayer, on 01/30/2008, -3/+13Replace "IE" with "Microsoft".
- SHuisman, on 01/30/2008, -2/+12I feel ashamed, cos i'm from netherlands....
- sfacets, on 01/30/2008, -1/+103/4 of european surfers are technologically impaired.
- lalanis, on 01/30/2008, -6/+15What is IE?
- heystoopid, on 01/30/2008, -0/+8Xenu says IE just plain sucks big time !
- benguild, on 01/30/2008, -1/+9Lmfao yeah, I try explain that to a lot of my friends buuuut...
- gudnbluts, on 01/30/2008, -0/+7" Or is it suggesting that in October people stopped using it, but then started using it again last month?"
Some people try it, decide they don't like it, and uninstall it. Not many, but some. Then other people start using it. That month more people may have stopped using it than started. Also, a surge in computer buying could account for it, as people would be buying computers with IE preinstalled. - inactive, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Yes, he's correct.
- Jerky1312, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Mainly because of Firefox and Opera forcing their hand. If it weren't for solid browsers like Firefox and Opera, Microsoft would not have felt a major need to upgrade IE. Competition is good.
- init100, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7Just like 4/5 of North American surfers. :p
- orangefly, on 01/30/2008, -3/+9no opera love....???....
- chingy1788, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6For me, firefox some times just freezes :S
but i still use it cause when it does freeze, and i restart it, all my open tabs can be recovered
iceweasel on the other hand, crashes every 5 seconds - bmson, on 01/30/2008, -4/+10Where the heck is Iceland?
And the static for England?
btw. Way to go Finland! - quarando, on 01/30/2008, -4/+10I am no fan of IE, but none of this sounds plausible
- psg188, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7Interesting that the highest market shares are among countries where Germanic people live.
- inactive, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6I don't think so.
- mindsnare, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5IE is MUCH worse than Safari for the pure reason that you don't need to mess around for hours when developing websites just to get the damn things to display properly. I will say that IE7 was a fairly significant improvement on that, but I still have to put those if IE conditional comments in everywhere, or even make an entirely different stylesheet for it.
- thebrawl, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5IE is so bad that they can't even maintain browser coverage within their own monopoly market.
- DiFosfor, on 01/30/2008, -0/+5Wow, sorry to be from the Netherlands.. I do wish Firefox wouldn't leak so bad in OS X though. I've almost switched to Safari if it weren't for the lack of my favorite extension Google Browser Sync.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/31/2008, -1/+6Safari for windows is still new. IE has been with windows since 1995, and has had more dollars and hours put into it than any other browser by far.
IE sucks, it's mostly the design that sucks.
From UI (getting better) to Web Standards.
Safari for Mac would be better than IE7 for Windows. - seenxu, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5our site(stu-cn.de) located in germany, which has 1 million hits at least per day, the firefox share is 28%, Safari is 2%, 35% for IE6, 33% for IE7, statistic according to google analystic.
- Tarl, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5MS will copycat the recovered tabs feature in...3...2...1...
- ausfahrt, on 01/30/2008, -4/+9FF never crashes ever and the memory issue is being fixed in 3 which is already beta 2. When is IE 8 coming out, or any significant patches to it? Oh right in a million years have fun waiting. Also when FF3 is out it will be 100% W3C compliant which puts it about 90% in front of IE. Not that they needed much seeing as it was already 20 times more compatible. You know nothing good work.
- joe8pack, on 01/30/2008, -1/+6As they say in France, "Micrrrrrrrrrrosoft, I faaart in yer jeneral directshunnnn!!!
LIke Vista, when I saw IE7 - I said to myself, why?
More crap I don't want that makes my hardware run slower - the new Microsoft slogan. - Subriot, on 01/31/2008, -2/+6Good for Mozilla, Internet Explorer is so stressful to web designers.
- oojamaflip2006, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4I'm glad you brought up the problem with the drop down menus. I've had it too and it is an example of previous bad versions of IE shooting the current version in the foot. The reason is people put too many conditional comments in the css/html to fix the IE6 hover and float rendering problems.
- chingy1788, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4ie, which is short hand for "that is"
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Microsoft has to include a web browser with windows.
They already have Internet Explorer. So at this point they won't just drop it. -
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