Microsoft IE Browser Share Dips Below 50%

alphadogg writes "Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has dominated the Web browser market since blowing by Netscape in the late 1990s, last month fell below the 50% market share level for the first time in years. IE's share of the worldwide market fell to 49.87% in September, down from 51.3% in August and 58.4% a year ago. It is followed by Firefox, which increased its share slightly from 30.09% to 31.5% and Google Chrome, which grabbed 11.54% share, more than triple its September 2009 share, according to market watcher StatCounter."

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They All Suck

[Lawrence_Bird]

Is the conclusion I have come to of late. Firefox is a pig with random slowdowns (even as I type this) and high memory usage. Increasingly it also locks up other tabs while waiting on ads or other links to load. Chrome unfortunately seems to still make use of parts of IE or windows - found to my displeasure when setting up a proxy and I got the Internet Settings box (note: changing here seems to change for all apps...b rilliant). Opera while generally quite good still fails to draw some pages properly and still has some UI quirks which will take a long while to adjust to.

I may finally make the move to Opera and use one of the others when a page does not look right. But I've grown entirely sick of firefox, and yes I've tried 4.0 as well. Seeing that I started with something like mozilla 0.92 I've given them a fair shake I think!

Re:good riddance

[Dishevel]

Look. I love the whole "Everyone is Equal", "All points of view are valid", "There is no right and wrong" thing people are doing.
It makes me feel all warm inside when I think of it. Really it dose. Every time I hear someone say one of those things you can just see them grow and become superior to the rest of us.

Problem is it just isn't true. Extremist Muslims are just fucking WRONG. Born again Christians killing doctors is WRONG. Late term abortions due to inconvenience is WRONG.


And, If you are doing something you do not want anyone to know about, mostly you should not be doing it. I do not think it should be illegal. If you want to take some care that you are hidden and it is harming no one else I am cool with that as well. But we all know that those things that we hide we Should not be doing.