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- donte, on 11/04/2009, -8/+252Yay, every Firefox release ever combined is more popular than Microsoft's browser from 2 major releases ago! I use FF for everything but this comparison is ridiculous.
- dtele, on 11/04/2009, -35/+235Thats nice, but we moved on to IE8 a while back.
- redlantern64, on 11/04/2009, -2/+155As a web designer, I don't care what browser you use as long as it isn't ***** IE6.
My life will be so much easier when it dies its richly deserved death. - satirenine, on 11/04/2009, -4/+153Yeah, I'm really gonna miss IE6...like ***** cancer
- RogerStrong, on 11/04/2009, -5/+119Yup. IE6 was released on August 27, 2001. The accomplishment is that all FireFox versions *combined* beat the 8+ year old IE6. But as the charts show, it's mostly because more people moved to IE7 and IE8 than to FireFox.
- SRSco, on 11/04/2009, -5/+100But you were happy with pervious versions of IE? o_O
- jaybol, on 11/04/2009, -9/+82Wait but aren't web designers going to be bummed if people stop using IE6?
- FujiwaraTofu, on 11/04/2009, -3/+60I guess your sarcasm wasn't obvious enough.
- Jektal, on 11/04/2009, -5/+47No, we'll be ecstatic.
- bouche, on 11/04/2009, -7/+44This just in.... Firefox ate all my memory.
- JebediahTBone, on 11/04/2009, -2/+36I agree. To me the interesting thing about these numbers isn't how well FF is doing against IE, but that even with two major releases after it, IE6 is still dominant over IE7 & IE8.
- brockorr, on 11/04/2009, -5/+37Good for Firefox. Personally I use Chrome.
And Firefox
And Opera
And Safari
Pretty much anything thats not Microsoft (as far as browsers go) - svivian, on 11/04/2009, -15/+45That's kind of misleading. They took an individual browser version (IE6) and compared it against all versions of another (FF).
It's funny though how IE7 usage is lower than IE6 now. Hopefully with Windows 7 people will start upgrading their systems! - Kragnerac, on 11/04/2009, -1/+29When I was a little kid my mother told me not to double-click the big blue "e". So once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache.
- getoffmybridge, on 11/04/2009, -20/+47IE8 is horrible
- realmike15, on 11/04/2009, -4/+30Firefox's success means only one thing, it keeps Microsoft and Apple on their toes with browser design and functionality. The business world is the only market still heavily using IE, and only because a lot of their web databases and other browser related software only runs on IE.
Open Source software is great. - Moralogic, on 11/04/2009, -8/+34It is ahead of a 8+ year old browser that was pre-installed on currently the most used OS, XP.
So I still have to call it a good accomplishment. They have a ways to go though. It will overtake IE soon enough. The Google OS coming out will be huge. Mainly from taking away IE users and putting them into Chrome, but anything that isn't IE is good. - SRSco, on 11/04/2009, -1/+26Cool story, bro.
- bilco, on 11/04/2009, -4/+29Depends where you get your statistics from....
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
on that site Firefox has been ahead of IE6 for a long time ! - Almightymole, on 11/04/2009, -2/+24Chrome 3.0 has π market share?
- MrZaiko, on 11/04/2009, -2/+22Firefox: "We finally got a piece of the pieeee"
/Jefferson's - RogerStrong, on 11/04/2009, -0/+19Well, it *is* a pie chart.
- eh123, on 11/04/2009, -2/+20made me lol. FireFox is the hungry hungry hippo of web browsers.
- loconet, on 11/04/2009, -2/+20I'm not sure how this is misleading, they're specifically mentioning the version of IE and mentioning Firefox without a version. How else should they have stated that fact without a long explanation?
- Mankrik, on 11/04/2009, -2/+20I like how IE6 is more used then IE7 or IE8, but Firefox 3.5 is more popular then 3.0 or 2.0.
Why can't microsoft just force people in IE6 to upgrade? Would it really hurt to kill an obsolete browser? - Jektal, on 11/04/2009, -5/+22RTFA much?
- dalectrics, on 11/04/2009, -0/+16How about Netscape? :P
On a serious note, I'm with you - I'd say that over 40% of my dev time can go into debugging IE6, especially if I haven't had the opportunity to design from the ground up. - Giac, on 11/04/2009, -0/+15OM NOM NOM NOM
- FenrirWolf, on 11/04/2009, -6/+20They weren't very precise when it comes to people using Chrome 3.0.
It's actaully 3.141592653589793238462...% - NinjaBoy, on 11/04/2009, -1/+15The issue is that some company's may depend on IE6 for some vendor support. But yeah I agree they really should be getting more pushy with their IE8 rollout.
- Daneru, on 11/04/2009, -6/+20Go Chrome, go!! You can do it!
- Jektal, on 11/04/2009, -0/+14To be fair, how useful would your new PC be if it didn't have a browser installed? Do you expect everyone to use telnet or ftp from the command line to get their browser of choice?
- giyad, on 11/04/2009, -20/+33thats funny, IE8 is exactly what made me switch to Firefox... when the IE8 beta came out it caused me sooo many problems!
- SRSco, on 11/04/2009, -2/+15lol I thought i was impervious to spelling errors with my firefox. I guess i'm not.
- yaminohikari, on 11/05/2009, -2/+13I surf for porn, search for software cracks, download screen savers, and make all my online purchases with IE6. Real men bareback the Internet.
- apologeticus, on 11/04/2009, -1/+11companies, not company's.
l2plural - Chewie67, on 11/04/2009, -1/+11If only that were true. Depending on which stats you look at, IE6 still commands anywhere from 10 to as high as 30% of the world wide browsing share. For the web sites I manage, it seems to hover around 18%. The Counter paints a more grim picture though:
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2009/September/bro ...
As a web developer, I find that MADDENING.
I'm holding out a small bit of hope that Windows 7 helps crush IE6 a bit more. Perhaps some of those Grandma's with a computer that still runs Windows 98 will upgrade and get IE8.
My actual hope is that they -- and the foolish businesses that cling to IE6 so they can continue to use some archaic proprietary software -- will switch to Firefox, Safari or Chrome. I probably have a better chance of winning the lottery though... - MWeather, on 11/05/2009, -3/+13Years of fixing relatives' virus infected windows PCs is enough to make anyone bitter.
- Skootles, on 11/04/2009, -0/+10Force it to die, and don't code for it.
Unless you're required to by a client.. then it's understandable, but for anything personal, I wouldn't waste your time. - Chewie67, on 11/04/2009, -3/+13You'd be shocked at how many of those PC's running XP are not updated automatically.
Remember - when XP was first released, the default was to NOT automatically check for updates or install them. That was switched in one of the later service packs, and -- surprise, surprise -- a lot of those older computers never got the Service Packs either.
Anyone that does PC support will tell you -- it's a mess out there. - derektherock42, on 11/04/2009, -1/+11I keep a lot of browsers too, just so I have a Plan B if one of them misbehaves.
- bobbi21, on 11/04/2009, -0/+9Why do you need so many browsers?
- nullcodes, on 11/05/2009, -1/+10Yay! in other news, Opera just surpassed IE 2.0 users.
- colto, on 11/04/2009, -1/+10Yeah I am really gonna miss having to use conditional statements with separate css files just to fix IE6 bugs, crappy PNG support through a slow proprietary filter, etc.
- charliecharlos, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8Porn. You can never have too many browsers when dealing with porn.
- Thuktun, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8My employer still can't quite give up IE6 support on some of our applications even though it's horribly insecure and no longer supported by Microsoft, but so many customers are still perceived to use it.
- fandyllic, on 11/04/2009, -3/+11Not automatically. Obviously lots of stupid people didn't click OK or stupidly turned off their auto-update notifications.
- bobbi21, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8If we go by the ACTUAL ARTICLES stats, IE6 still beats IE8, 23.30% vs 20.54%. But why bother reading the actual article.
- abbathdoom, on 11/04/2009, -1/+9Enterprise moving to Windows 7 will be the best thing to happen to the web in years. IE6 market share will fall to the point that developers can surely just ignore it for good.
- mrpunman, on 11/04/2009, -2/+9THE WHOLE THING???
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