IE, Safari, Flock, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon. With so much competition raging amongst web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer still retains the lion’s share of the pie. Here are several reasons why.
- As long as Microsoft Windows is the leading OS for hundreds of millions of desktop PCs, IE will always come bundled with it. Nothing beats out of the box distribution. Just look at why Safari is the Queen Bee of all Macs — because it’s also out of the box. Unless some dominant OS (like Ubuntu) bundles a competing browser such as Firefox, they won’t stand a chance.
- Some important sites are still just for Internet Explorer. You want online banking? More or less, you’ll need to fire up IE. You want to pay utility bills with your credit card online? IE again.
- ActiveX. ActiveX. ActiveX.
- For a sizable number of internet surfers, that shiny, blue letter “e” on the desktop still represents the WWW. Just check out your local internet cafe.
- Some large companies and global corporations are eternally married to Internet Explorer. Call centers like Convergys have thousands of seats and each desktop has to have the same softwares and IE is one of them. They have to be the same versions too.
Besides, Microsoft is still trying to improve the browser (well, only after Firefox was reported to be inching closer) with IE7 and the alleged development of IE8.
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Firefox…..the best antispyware on the planet!
I ceased using IE for internet browsing back in 2003 when I discovered better alternatives FF and Opera. And there was no looking back. I only use it to test if my sites looks good in it. At work, I prefer Opera - there are ways to make it look like I am staring at a black and white word document, so my boss won’t notice it’s yugatech i’m reading.
1) View menu -> Style -> High Contrast (B/W)
2) View -> Images -> No Images
3) F12 -> Uncheck enable plugins (disables flash)
4) I usually zoom it down to 80% (Firefox will only have the zoom feature in version 3, it currently has text size only)
5) Surf all I want
Yuga’s right about that shiny blue letter “e” = WWW to majority of internet users.. like in the pc rental where i surf, the shop owner is forced to replace Firefox’s icon to that of IE’s because most users (students mainly) don’t know what to click without that famous icon..they are lost.. the shop owner is like “Ang gagamitin nyong browser, yung Mozilla,” the students are like “Mozilla.. Firefox.. ano yun?”
Firefox is bundled with the Ubuntu Linux OS as well as the Ubuntu Studio variant
FF is for the Geek but for those *un-geek use IE. Ie sucks in many ways. I developed site since 2000 and the most problematic browser I have is IE, most of my CSS is not working fine. But I think it improves on IE7. IE6 has a lot of buggggg. Safari is cool and I am using this to test the other websites project I am doing. I am make sure the site is tested in FF, IE, Safari, Opera , etc etc….
Firefox is better than ‘e’. It works faster when paying Philippine credit cards online. Bancnet, Citibank, Bankard - firefox does magic with them. So far, i don’t have big qualms with the browser.
I don’t touch the “e” anymore on my desktop, in fact, I removed it as a shortcut. Firefox is better and safer. My other alternative browser is Opera, which I used for uploading and downloading, it’s the fastest gun in this dang WWWorld.
It actually depends on how you define “king”. The term is subjective. This entry could be misleading. J/k.
ActiveX? When banks use ActiveX, it scares me. This is my first time to see someone rave about ActiveX.
the IE address bar turns Green when accessing paypal, ebay or other banking websites. This shows you that the site is legit.