I recently attended a meeting with a  software company who specifically use the browser as a way to load their software and view their systems. In past versions of their software they mostly relied on Explorer as the go to browser of choice.
 
 This company has recently changed direction and their next version will accomidate Chrome, Firefox,Android and Safari into its lineup allowing for control with the likes of ipad and android systems.
 
 One of their main reasons for this is the declining market share of explorer and use of other browsers. Explorer is loosing ground and fast. Chrome is now first with Explorer second . Firefox, Safari and Opera trailing. The charts I seen that trend this show a big downward line on the chart for Explorer...IOW she is taking on water pretty fast and hasn't stabilized. In sharp contrast Google Chrome is steadily jumping onward and upward.
 
 The chilly reception of Win 8 perhaps? The growing proliferation of inexpensive android/chrome tablets?
 
 Whatever the reason Explorer is loosing it.
 
 

Starise


 
 I recently attended a meeting with a  software company who specifically use the browser as a way to load their software and view their systems. In past versions of their software they mostly relied on Explorer as the go to browser of choice.
 
 This company has recently changed direction and their next version will accomidate Chrome, Firefox,Android and Safari into its lineup allowing for control with the likes of ipad and android systems.
 
 One of their main reasons for this is the declining market share of explorer and use of other browsers. Explorer is loosing ground and fast. Chrome is now first with Explorer second . Firefox, Safari and Opera trailing. The charts I seen that trend this show a big downward line on the chart for Explorer...IOW she is taking on water pretty fast and hasn't stabilized. In sharp contrast Google Chrome is steadily jumping onward and upward.
 
 The chilly reception of Win 8 perhaps? The growing proliferation of inexpensive android/chrome tablets?
 
 Whatever the reason Explorer is loosing it.
 
 

For me it's the small things.  IE won't automatically add .com and it will drop characters when I use macros in it.

I moved on to Chrome back when Explorer sucked.  I hear that it has improved but there really is no reason to come back.  Chrome does a great job.  

That said I still don't understand why Explorer must succeed.  Microsoft makes no money on it.

Its pretty difficult these days to get by with just one browser.

Most of my companies sites were recommended as IE only, but recently that has changed with some recommending Firefox. Typically I use IE by default unless there is a need to fire up Firefox. IE9 has the new "clean" interface and I preferred 8 but is OK.

Firefox (20 in my case) is OK but all in all it seems to be less stable and give more problems than IE 9. Addons for Firefox like Down Them All can be useful.

I have tried Chrome but do not like it. Opera is banned by IT security in our company we are a large international corporation and I don't think its just on the whim of "some guy". I follow suit and will not have it on my personal computers.

ie 10 has blown me away, its a lot better than previous versions.
I was using ie 8 for the longest time and it worked well with this forum.
ie 9 was a joke, it was so bad it left a horrid taste in my mouth I skipped right over it.
it wouldn't update posts, froze a lot.
but ie 10 is fabulous.
very fast.

 I don't necessarily hate IE. In my case it stopped working for a few things I typically used so I migrated to Chrome for some of the things I do.

 Something happened when Soundcloud released the most recent version. It just didn't work on the several versions of IE that I had. On Chrome it loads right up.

 In another case something in  IE on my DAW went wrong...could have been a  breach of security or a bug of some kind. It stopped working well, became unable to load things it loaded in the past with no problems. In this case Chrome also worked well, so I hardly use IE now on my DAW.

 I might work on 4 or 5 different computers at my job in a days time. Some of them are showing a little age and the IE on those computers doesn't like  new websites. I found that if I loaded Chrome the websites work better on the older machines.

 I am typing this on IE right now and it seems to be fine for basic things( like the Cakewalk Forums)....but chokes on more recently made websites.

 I haven't tried IE 10 chuckebaby...it is probably great on a newer computer but older PCs don't seem to like the more recent versions.

  Some of these newer browsers are not as heavy and seem a little more streamlined.

  Glyn, I know that Opera has never been the most popular browser. I know a web developer who uses it for personal work almost exclusively. She claims that it isn't as susceptible to attacks from hackers.I liked Firefox, the only thing I didn't like was that when I needed an add on it wasn't very intuitive to add it on.

I just let my computer do a windows update this morning and apparently IE10 was one of the updates.  the jury's still out on this version.  I can already see a couple of things I don't care for, but not enough to bug me to switch.

of course on my ipad I use safari.

Normally I use IE for everything, but like Tim just mentioned, soundcloud didn't work with one of the updates to IE and I had to start using chrome for that.

I just checked soundcloud and IE10 still doesn't work with the set reorder, so I'll still have to use chrome for that.  looks like they wouldn't "break" things when they do updates, doesn't it?

 Looks like this could cost Soundcloud users a few listeners....could be a lot more than a few.

  How many people will try their IE and simply give up if it doesn't load? I would be willing to wager thousands over all.

Glyn Barnes

Opera is banned by IT security in our company we are a large international corporation and I don't think its just on the whim of "some guy". I follow suit and will not have it on my personal computers. 

I find Opera is the most secure browser - it's ridiculously easy to disable scripting/plugins/etc. by default and enable/configure them on a per-site basis. And on top of that, even on those sites I have plugins only enabled on demand so they don't run unless I click on them. Not to mention that it's not popular enough to be as big a target to hackers.

But like everything else there are security fixes, but most of them nowadays are fixes for fairly narrow risks.

It might be security related, but it also may be that IT doesn't like some of Opera's features - like a built in torrent client or "private tabs/windows" that leave no trace of where the user browsed.

IT departments might not like that Opera has torrents.  Most browsers have private browsing.  It doesn't prevent your company from tracking which sites you visit.  It just keeps any place you visit from showing up in your browser history.