Internet Explorer losing browser share

[Lionel Lark]

I use elinks, it is def not as resource hungry as many of the other browsers today.

 

[Verd1234]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0&feature=topvideos[/youtube]

 

[TheGM]

I use IE becuase I don't have a damn clue what you people are talking about.

 

[Not Lost Hope]

How hard is it to find it? I am quite curious.

Apparently, it's extremely difficult I guess "re"draw means "draw the page for the first time", then (and I have the finnish version, but oh well) Otherwise I've been pretty satisfied with Opera. With this change I might stick with Opera. I read somewhere that Opera was made for Windows, whereas Firefox was first made for Linux. Of course stuff has to be best on the platform it was designed for. That and Firefox is too popular nowadays. Nothing so mainstream can be cool. If I want to belong with the cool kids I have to use something more hardcore.

Also, isn't Google like a gigantic international fucking megacorporation? Who wants to support anything like that?

 

[Buxbaum666]

I use Lynx.

 

[KristofferAG]

I use Lynx.

I use Firefox and Opera. Switch it up. Sometimes I boot up Chrome as well. It all depends on what I'm doing. Editing a wiki means I'll use at least two, maybe three browsers.

 

[Brother None]

While I understand your frustration, that's not Opera's fault. It's the browser that adheres most to web conventions.
So get GameBanshee to fix their crappy website.

Yeah I know. We recently ported to some CMS tho', so it's more that the CMS doesn't adhere strictly enough to web conventions.

Thing is: so what? I kind of get the stick-in-the-butt attitude towards how flawless code must be written from a coder's perspective, from a consumer's perspective Internet Explorer's "live and let live" attitude was always the best.

 

[Mirr]

60 % no way...maybe they are counting again and again all the people with yet another windows reinstall searching the web for another browser or os...

 

[SuAside]

From my company's website (we get fair amounts of mostly european traffic):
Internet Explorer 63.37%
Firefox 23.20%
Chrome 7.23%
Safari 5.23%
Opera 0.81%
(and the rest is obscure stuff)

If you compare it to the article's stats:
* Internet Explorer - 59.9%
* Firefox - 24.5%
* Chrome - 6.7%
* Safari - 4.7%
* Opera - 2.3%
* Opera Mini - 0.7%
* Netscape - 0.46%
* Mozilla - 0.16%
* Flock - 0.06%
* Lunascape - 0.04%
* Source: Net Applications

It seems pretty realistic.

 

[Sander]

60 % no way...maybe they are counting again and again all the people with yet another windows reinstall searching the web for another browser or os...

The vast majority of people who browse the internet do so with a standard install and couldn't care less (or know less) about the browser they're using.

Forum populations aren't representative of the total internet population.