IE on pace to drop below 50% share by 2011

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

Often wondered that myself stuveltje. The average surfer goes to store and buys pc/laptop, brings it home and surfs. They do not change anything on system unless it breaks. IE is still the browser of choice that comes with buying a new system. Because of this I still use IE, when that changes I will. Until then it is what it is.

Remember, even if IE drops to 50% that just means that ALL the others make up the other 50% which still keeps IE as the majority.

When looking thru stats I did notice a difference with sites and search traffic. If yahoo is tops there is a higher percentage of IE users (70%) compared to a site where google is tops (60%).

i think your right, i know my kids just surf and use ie, while i forched them to use firefox, reason, i had to fix their puter to many times, the only thing i see differend with ie and firefox is....firefox protects you more agains shit when you click a site....to be honest thats also the reason why i use it because i am a reviewer......mmmm seems i have to focus more on ie then, still my sites look great in ie, but then i am not planning to fuck those other surfers who use firefox with a bad looking site.....heay even its is a smal percentage of people it are still possible buyers and i have to keep them happy too.

[digifan]

My stats:
1. Internet Explorer 50.78%
2. Firefox 36.99%
3. Safari 4.89%
4. Opera 3.52%
5. Chrome 2.21%
6. Mozilla 0.34%
7. Playstation 3 0.28%
8. SeaMonkey 0.24%
9. Opera Mini 0.23%
10. Netscape 0.22%

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

I wonder how much of that was due to Google Chrome?.

I'm using it & it does have a lot od faults & lacks a lot of stuff, but IE just pissed me off to no end & I figure it can't hurt to use Google's browser

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Greenie

I'm using it & it does have a lot od faults & lacks a lot of stuff, but IE just pissed me off to no end & I figure it can't hurt to use Google's browser

You could always give Safari a try...

[LD]

Originally Posted by Cleo

You could always give Safari a try...

I didn't know you get Safari for pc. Cool! I use it on my iPhone, so I'm a little familiar with it.

I used to love Opera, but started having problems, now I'm back to IE. After upgrading to IE8, I keep getting these "windows explorer cannot display" bullshit mesages.

FF is nice, but never really won me over for some reason.

Downloading Safari now...