Comments on: Will Anyone Ever Abandon Another Browser for IE 8?

By: First Microsoft shook up its search – next up: Internet Explorer

First Microsoft shook up its search – next up: Internet Explorer — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:59:13 +0000

[...] I was reading a post on Technologizer by Harry McCracken about the slipping of Internet Explorer’s market share it got me thinking about the same thing I [...]

By: l zell

l zell — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:15:18 +0000

i use opera, safari,firefox, and ie8. ie8 only when necessary to do a download that requires using it. firefox has the most addons, most of which i don’t use. safari and opera allow me to access and save websites that may be mutually exclusive. both seem to be faster than ie8. i use firefox beta version for web searches. with google frame on top it is incredibly fast. i don’t find it necessary to have 500 passwords. 1 or 2 will suffice for my purposes.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:10:16 +0000

I switched from IE 7 to IE 8 because some of the websites I was visiting suggested I upgrade, not to mention IE 7′s constant bombardment telling me to get the new and improved…. ya great. Now I was stuck not being able to open up 5 websites properly. Unable to properly use Facebook. Unable to properly use ebay. Unable to access my kid’s marks on the schools secure website and IE 8 would hang in limbo. IE 8′s SLOWNESS in opening up new tabs. Like really, it is suppose to open new tabs faster with less memory than it would take to open a new browser isn’t it?

Yup so now I’m forced to use FireFox half the time. I’m sitting here wondering why I bother to use 2 browsers at all and not just switch over completely to Firefox, a browser that hasn’t had the security issue MS has been plagued with in their various versions of IE and Windows.

Maybe I should have gotten a Mac now that I think about it.

By: Andrew Velis

Andrew Velis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:51:00 +0000

There is nothing more I want then for IE to get its act together or get out of the way. Since it doesn’t seem to know how to get it together if it’s market-share is dropping then its music to my ears.

By: Andrew Velis

Andrew Velis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:48:59 +0000

I personally find it crazy that any web development with IE support in mind would have to support up to THREE versions of ONE browser. It drives me nuts. The best analogy I can give on IE: would you expect a ten year old car to perform exactly the same as a brand new car? Would the older car have the better features as the newer one? More importantly if you had to pay the same price either one which one would you choose to buy? There is nothing more I want then IE to get its act together or get out of the way.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:13:47 +0000

Even our totally MS tech shop thinks IE is a second-class browser.

By: The browser wars: Google on top? : TechVi: Technology matters.

The browser wars: Google on top? : TechVi: Technology matters. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:54:38 +0000

[...] that makes even the most anti-competitive practices seem easy to overcome. Take, for instance, the recent report claiming Microsoft’s IE share dropped 11% in March. Whether the data proves to be accurate or not, the more important takeaway is that people are [...]

By: Internet Explorer market share drops 11.4% : TechVi: Technology matters.

Internet Explorer market share drops 11.4% : TechVi: Technology matters. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:31:38 +0000

[...] to a dwnward trend in IE6 and IE7 that offset IE8’s growth since it’s March release. It is speculated that while some loss may be seen as part of the transition to IE8 the overall trend is towards [...]

By: Alfiejr

Alfiejr — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:18:15 +0000

browser feature preferences are all over the map, but the one thing every user responds to is speed – how fast web pages load, how “snappy” a browser feels doing anything with it. and IE is clearly losing the speed war to all the web kit browsers. there is just no factual debate here, the differences are big enough for anyone to notice and every test to measure. IE’s basic architecture may just be obsolete.

this means IE will keep losing market share to users willing to experiment with other browsers, because a significant number of them – at least half i would guess – will switch to the faster one. but the improved IE 8 will at least allow MS to hang on to the remaining large number of users and enterprise that never use/try anything but the default system anyway – about 40% of the market i’d imagine. we’ll see …

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:03:13 +0000

I switched from IE to phoenix in 2002 and have never looked back. I switched from Firefox to Chrome when it first went to a public release. I like my browser to be fast, light, intuitive, functional, and standards compliant. IE hasn’t been any of those things for a long, long, long time. And it isn’t on the right track to compete with Chrome (now or in the future), either. I’ve written IE off as the next (current) Navigator: obsolete, irrelevant, clunky, and just bad.