News - Internet Explorer market share drops yet further

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Chrome and Safari pick up the slack.

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[kasavien]

What do browser figures mean in real terms? I don't get the fuss anymore, for the things I use browsers for they're all much of a muchness, I could pretty much use any of the current browsers full screen and not be able to tell the difference.

[RMcLeod]

What do browser figures mean in real terms? I don't get the fuss anymore, for the things I use browsers for they're all much of a muchness, I could pretty much use any of the current browsers full screen and not be able to tell the difference.

Browser figures mean a lot to people in the web development industry, it lets them know what browsers their target audiences are using, and therefore how they need to develop their software. IE is getting better, but hacks are still needed to get things to appear the same from one browser to the other, especially with html 5 where there is even greater disparity of supported features between the browsers.

[crossy]

Internet Explorer's market share has been dropping steadily over the past several years, in no small part as a result of Microsoft's historical poor support for modern web standards in its browsers, driving web users to the competition.

I thought it was a combination of poor performance and woeful security that was responsible for IE's market share fall. Certainly I remember reading about an upswing in Firefox share after the German government recommended not using IE for internet banking.

I've tried a good slew of browsers before settling on Chrome and Firefox (although IE's on my Windows box well ... because it has to be). Chrome I like because of that sync feature, and it's quick, but I still use FF as well because it just strikes me as more securable (got AdBlock and NoScript amongst others). Yes, I realise that Chrome probably can use the same security addons, but I'm just more comfortable with FF.

Don't ask me why though, but I really didn't take to Safari. Just didn't seem to perform noticably better than IE9 and came complete with a load of Apple bloatware when I tried it. Still, I guess there must be a lot of folks who do like it.

Oh, and I also quite like Opera - it's very good on mobile phones.