Are you still using IE?

[jman19]

IE? Almost never. Mainly FF at home, Chrome at work.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It saddens me to know that IE is still the most popular browser, from a statistics point of view.

With all the education out there about alternative browsers being so much better, people still refuse to switch.

Sadly lot of corporate apps are designed to only work in IE6 too. I only use IE in those cases, when I'm forced. Even then, I just use the IEtab extension in Firefox, since while it's still using IE, at least it's part of Firefox and I still get tab support out of it.

 

[blurredvision]

It saddens me to know that IE is still the most popular browser, from a statistics point of view.

With all the education out there about alternative browsers being so much better, people still refuse to switch.

Do you really care that much? All browsers display Facebook the same exact way, that's all anybody cares about. With that said, IE these days is no worse than the others unless you insist on being some kind of self-confessed "power user" and think add-ons and extensions make you some kind of internet superhero. To everyone else, all the browsers are the same, which is perfectly fine.

 

[FelixDeCat]

I hate FF. IE8 is the only solution for me. The FF interface is fugly.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

The sync bookmarks thing on FF is great! Do other browsers have this as well?

 

[Nebor]

I've used Chrome since it came out.

If I install IE9, IE just crashes on startup. I had to roll back to IE8 after I spent a few days of troubleshooting IE9.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Do you really care that much? All browsers display Facebook the same exact way, that's all anybody cares about. With that said, IE these days is no worse than the others unless you insist on being some kind of self-confessed "power user" and think add-ons and extensions make you some kind of internet superhero. To everyone else, all the browsers are the same, which is perfectly fine.

Having to write sites to support IE sucks, because you have to make so many exceptions and "if IE" clauses, it makes web design much harder, and especially with all these different versions they've been putting out. Now you have to support 6 7 8 9 and soon 10. if they actually followed W3C it would not be so bad, but they do their own thing, because they know they can. Makes everyone else's job harder.

IE needs to just die a fast but painful death.

 

[Ichinisan]

I stopped using IE because of the gawd-damned pop-up ads on anandtech...If IE would have offered a decent ad-blocker like AB Plus, I might have stayed with it...

I don't give two shits about WHOSE browser I use...only that it works right for me.

I've never gotten pop-ups ads from AT. Are you sure it wasn't an adware plugin attached to IE?

 

[Ichinisan]

The sync bookmarks thing on FF is great! Do other browsers have this as well?

Chrome does. It actually works better in Chrome because you don't have to enter any cryptic activation IDs. Just use your Gmail / Google login.

 

[Anubis]

forced to at work (IE 8) which was just upgraded to a few months ago

they uninstalled FF/Opera & chrome company wide months ago and you cant reinstall them

i use opera at home. Fastest + most features that everyone ends up copying

 

[BoomerD]

I've never gotten pop-ups ads from AT. Are you sure it wasn't an adware plugin attached to IE?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2123821

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2115980

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2088259

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2105470

 

[Ichinisan]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2123821

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2115980

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2088259

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2105470

Actually, the second one is vaguely familiar.

 

[Kipper717]

Just got a nag screen for IE9 from MS during the latest updates.

No thanks. I'll stick with FF.

 

[zanejohnson]

run Opera, it's the most lightweight browser i've found and has the best plug in to download youtube vids (one of the main reasons i use it)

 

[hydroponik]

I'm required to use it at work since they develop all of their webapps on it...

 

[DrPizza]

based on this: Visitors arrived either through organic searches or through advertisements on other sites

It sounds like their all a bunch of dumbasses.

Before you call a group of people "dumbasses," you might want to proof read your reply to make sure you didn't make any mistakes.

P.S. "they're"

 

[Drako]

IE at work, because we have to. Chrome at home.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Before you call a group of people "dumbasses," you might want to proof read your reply to make sure you didn't make any mistakes.

P.S. "they're"

You mean it takes one to know one? :biggrin:

 

[Nintendesert]

I'm actually getting tired of a lot of the bullshit slowness of FF and using IE9 more and more.

 

[nonameo]

I use osmosis

 

[wirelessF]

Depends what OS I'm using.

Win7: IE9 or Chrome
Mac: Firefox
XP on some of my older computers: Chrome

 

[theprodigalrebel]

In its defense, IE9 is a great browser for the type of person who would never install a (Firefox) Add-On or a (Chrome) Extension. Unlike yesteryear where Firefox/Chrome offered a superior experience even in their vanilla OOTB form, IE9 has finally entered the current age in terms of rendering speed, rendering quality, time-to-launch, and overall finish.

I say that knowing FF 6 Beta (what I'm using now) scores 302+9 on the HTML5 test whereas IE9 scores 141+5 out of 450. I am yet to see a site where IE9 produces a less than ideal render.

 

[cherrytwist]

At work we are using IE6(!) because one of our apps isn't compatible with anything beyond that. This company is huge btw. For all other apps I use FF.

At home I use FF mostly, occasionally use IE9.

 

[rockyct]

I've been using FF for years, but I'm beginning to use IE9 more and more. It's actually a very nice browser and I've stopped recommending others over it for non-techy people.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

ubuntu running emu to run ie.