Internet Explorer loses more ground to FireFox!!

[JGuru]

While Microsoft's IE browser has lost further market share this year. FireFox has
steadily picked up momentum. IE has continued to lose market share this year,
to 75.88 percent share in July 2006 from 77.01 percent in January 2006 & 84.05
percent in July 2005 says Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis.
In contrast FireFox's market share rose to 13.71 percent in July 2006, compared
to 12.42 percent in January 2006.
But two factors have helped slow its acceptance, the continued disclosure of
security issues within FireFox, & it's incompatibilities with IE, the paper added.

"Some websites looked & acted differently", the users said that as the primary
reason for shifting to IE again!!

Read more about it here

[QwertyManiac]

Hehe I like the icon for this thread

It looks great seeing the figures, considering I started when it was 1.2% and now its grown so much. I just cant wait for the ultimate version 2.0, its just so friggin awesome! I certainly dont wish to hope, cause Firefox will continue to pawn no matter WHAT!

[Pathik]

hey wats d marketshare of opera??

[Sykora]

Low. Very Low, around 1-1.8%. However, because of Opera's UA string manipulation, no browser statistics are all that accurate.

[deathvirus_me]

Like always .. Firefox is here baby ...

[JGuru]

@Pathiks, marketshare of Opera is around 2 or 3 percent!! Ofcourse Opera has it's
own devoted followers. But the main problem with Opera is page rendering.
Sure Opera 9.1 looks cool with great features.But still they need to fix some irritating
bugs.

[Dhaval]

Well firefox is really good and i use it daily, but have you tried the new IE 7 it is really fast and with things like tabbed browsing and all, it is serious competition for firefox. the latest firefox 1.5.x is not much an improvement over the previous version. Mozilla has to seriously think of more improvement

[JGuru]

What about more exploits & vulnerabilities of IE?? A hacker can easily cause a buffer
overflow error in IE & get into your System!!
Stability & vulnerability-free features are more important than speed!!
Do you know that you can tweak FireFox to load faster,than it's default speed?

[Sykora]

That's true, but for the enormous majority of internet users, it's what is striaght out of the box that matters.

[Dhaval]

Yes i agree that FireFox maybe more secure but IE being more ingrained in the OS itself, these issues would or are already sorted out in the new version. And can any one tell me whether they were attcaked by a hacker atleast once. I have never faced such a problem. And if you do have something to protect then you would opt more a safer OS in the first place.

[Sykora]

Originally Posted by Dhaval

you would opt more a safer OS in the first place.

Cheers, *nix + Opera

[Dhaval]

Originally Posted by Sykora

Cheers, *nix + Opera

Right, thats what i was hinting at..

[QwertyManiac]

Cheers for *nix + Firefox too

IE 7 may be definitely faster and all that from what I've heard (Dont use windows, didnt try) but absolutely NOTHING will shoo me away from Open Source.

[Sykora]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

NOTHING

I'm a bit more lenient. I want to use good programs, and if they're reasonably priced, I'll consider them.

Another thing I like about IE7 is its handling of RSS feeds. Right now, I'm using a command line text-based feed aggregator, but I get hungry for the pictures every once in a while

[mail2and]

Originally Posted by Sykora

Cheers, *nix + Opera

Cheers, *nix + Safari/Konqueror

[QwertyManiac]

How much is the market share for Safari ? I liked safari the first time I tried it at my brother's college

[JGuru]

@Qwerty, the market share for Safari is less than 1%!! Don't be shocked , but that's
the reality. Mac O.S has it's own followers!! But they are very less in percentage
compared to Windows users.

[tinku dhar]

gr8 .... ,

as Firefox deserve it .... rite GUYs .... and the version 2.01 ECHO is DAMN ... kool ....

[QwertyManiac]

Originally Posted by JGuru

@Qwerty, the market share for Safari is less than 1%!! Don't be shocked , but that's
the reality. Mac O.S has it's own followers!! But they are very less in percentage
compared to Windows users.

Great to see it atleast exists near 1%

Netscape the browser should be completely dead by now I assume ?

[Sykora]

Practically dead, yes. There are still some die hard fans who use Netscape, but not substantial in numbers.

[JGuru]

@Sykora, Netscape is not dead yet!! Actually it comes in the third place with a market
share of 4.98%!! Also Netscape 8.0 was not well received , since the users felt
turned off by the installation process. Also they didn't like the process, which was
ad & pop-up window laden, the report says.

[Sykora]

Originally Posted by JGuru

Actually it comes in the third place with a market share of 4.98%!!

I had no idea that this was the case, but I got the impression that most people preferred Firefox to Netscape. I still think Opera's share should be much higher though. Besides, I also use links on occasion.

[anandk]

browser market shares here :

ie6, firefox, ie7, safari, etc in that order...

more here
ie rulz, firefox catching up. opera a long way to go...
ie rulz, firefox catching up. opera a long way to go...

ie7 final is expected to give the ie a push.

[jz2linkinpark]

OMG!!!!
when i read the title of the thread,my first thought was that firefox is now the top boss,but i guess i was wrong.......
oh well,its still good news,and if things keep on going like this,we may just see firefox as the next king

P.S OPERA SUCKS(both mini and normal version)
its cause of them i lost my faith in non microsoft browsers,but then,one fine day i tried firefox and now i am hooked
(ANOTHER P.S:i'm out of FRESH STOCK,hoooooooooray,and now i'm an APPRENTICE,god love me.....)

[QwertyManiac]

I cant speak against Opera Mobile (NOT mini), its the greatest browser I've ever used on a mobile platform.

[Pathik]

opera mini/opera mobile/netfront r the greatest mobile browsers......

[jz2linkinpark]

^^really?
i prefer the integrated browser in my N91(please check my thread in the bazaar section guys)is faster and more fuctional than opera mini.
the integrated broser loads quicker,it has a proper cursor,it doesn't crash and it doesn't display everything in a single coloumn(maybe i just feel this way because i use wi-fi for internet in my phone)