Does anybody still use Internet Explorer?

24.9% of people still do as of May 2011 according to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Don't know why, probably just because they are familiar with it from a long time ago and don't change.

Most of the people that I know do not use IE anymore. Including me.

Unfortunately, some people still do. I rejoiced when Google dropped support for older IE browsers early in 2010 - most of my clients decided to upgrade or to start learning how to use other more updated browsers.

As a designer, its a little frustrating to ensure older IE compatibility.

I use all type of browsers. Since I do develop websites, I need them to check compatibility

Lots of people still use IE.
Your job is to adapt to your customers,not try to make the customers adapt to what you like.

most people in the IM world do not use IE but the rest of the world for sure does.

Actually I think it's probably closer to 70% that still use I.E.

By far the majority of users are not tech savvy. Most don't know how to setup their email. If you do so Googling on the subject you will find some odd results. Typically they will put the numbers lower but then throw in a disclaimer of sorts indicating that for whatever reason their numbers don't take into account this or that.


I used to work in the I.T. support field and almost nobody uses FF or other browsers. Most use whatever is installed on the machine when they buy it.

I must be missing something because I use IE, never saw any good reason to change.

Yah , Larry, because you're a ordinary user and because of the hard work of the developers to make their website IE compatible. You need to be a developer to see how stupid is IE.

Unfortunately yes. Seeing how large your IE traffic in google analytics is a helpful indication of how important IE compatibleness is for your site, but usually it is around 20%-30%. Which also means 20%-30% of your visitors have no idea what they're doing with a computer.

I use Internet Explorer to access my bank account. Because its rly safe, once you set it up...

even i use IE for downloading firefox after windows installation..Firefox owns \m/

I use mostly use Firefox but I use IE too.

I dislike having to use IE, but I HAVE TO because that one site I've been using for business since 90's won't open in any other browser. I don't know why (I'm not an expert). It's a B2B website full of "secret" stuff, and maybe it's about security.

no matter whether you use IE or not you definitely have to check your web compatibility in IE cause a lot of people are still using it

What is Internet Explorer?

JK I know I have to check compatibility all the time with it but never use it myself for browsing.

Aloha,
Fred

I only use it for testing purposes - such as to see if my website will work on it so that visitors don't go nuts.

Developers hate Internet Explorer because it is a seemingly illiterate browser. Developers just want everyone to see their web site the same and since at least a quarter of internet users use IE, we have to continue to support it for our designs. I don't see how Microsoft doesn't have time to make a better browser. What is the problem? Do they really think IE is good at all?

I think the only people who use IE are people that don't know about Firefox or Chrome

Me, I don't use IE anymore, but some computer shop the default browser is Internet Explorer..

Yes Using IE 8 and 9 both.
working fine.

Use updated version then you can fix all bugs.
Use active-X control also.
Its will help you.

Internet Explorer Statistics

June: Only 23.2 %

Most people do at home still. I use Opera.

I truly can't see point of using Internet Explorer. That's amazingly slow compared to Firefox or Google Chrome + Internet Explorer doesn't have any possibilty to add addons does it?

When you are in website industry, you have to make your site compatible to all browser including IE.

But for personal surfing I prefer FF.

Well I do use sometimes specially when need to open many Gmail accounts and facebook accounts simultaneously.

I do not use IE anymore. It slows and very heavy. Currently I use firefox and chrome...

I think its pretty safe nowadays to concentrate compatibility efforts only on IE8/IE9 -which is not too bad at all. The bigger effort is probably iphone/mobile, cross-browser video etc.

IE 9 is now good but others are designer enemy. But if mozilla or other browsers upgrades then IE will be commented by million and then it will upgrade to IE 10 after realizing its bugs, and at the same time other browsers will be in the next stage. This is what happening for IE, this is history :-)

i do like Opera,it is very fast ,safe and use a little memorry,most of other broswers like Firefox,IE use a lot of memorry,but sometimes i use the other broswers too.

Yeah, it's true. Firefox and chrome nowadays rule the world of browsers. The only reason IE is still having a little importance is that it comes with Windows.

But in my opinion, IE 9 is worth giving a try. I has changed a lot with trend.

i never like IE, maybe i'm subjective but i think IE is slow compare to FF and chrome and i have to make additional line of code for browser compability. But then again, when i looked into google analytic then i found 60% my visitor using IE. So its mixed emotion i think...

Personally I use FF. I switched about 5 years ago, and haven't looked back.

Some people and I are using IE. I am using it for browser compatibility if the web page/web site are okay in that browser. Because several sites are not working 100% in the other browsers.

Firefox is the way to go. Internet explorer always gives me viruses.

I know I do not use IE anymore

I use mostly use Chrome and Firefox but IE Fail...

I also personally used Firefox and Chrome. Haven't used IE for years now.

I use IE only when google chrome crashes.You would probably do best if you optimise for all the popular browsers including mobile devices and safari.

Originally I hated FF. I just figured all the hype was mainly due to anti Microsoft sentiment among fringe dwelling (but surprisingly vocal) nerds but then I needed to do some cross browser checking so I need to install it (grumbling all the way). I have worked as a support technician since 1999 and have seen all the possible combinations of OS+Browser.

I have found that FireFox crashes by far many times than IE. It's slower to start and most of my chosen plugins don't work after the upgrades. I'm truly unimpressed and can't see what all the fuss is about. I'm online typically 12-15 hours a day and without doubt I'll get a FF crash every day but IE gives trouble maybe only a few times a month.

I know many of you hate Microsoft and many others are just following the herd and repeating old statements read somewhere online but seriously in my opinion IE is a better browser and I use both all day every day and have been for over 50,000 hours. I'd say that (apart from my experience) it's much of a muchness these days and really comes down to the user interface. Use which ever you like because I can't see a technical reason to use one over the other and if I did I would chose IE over FF because it crashes less.

Then again, I still use XP (which they will pry from my cold dead hands) so not sure if FF can't handle XP any more or what. I have IE8 (IE9 won't install on XP) and FF6.0.

Here's another tip that's browser related. When I switched from AVG to Avast I was surprised to gain at least a 30% speed increase across my entire computer (which was very surprising!) but I especially noticed that AVG REALLY puts the brakes on the browsers so if your machine is clunky and crashes a lot try removing AVG, installing Avast and I bet you will get a massive speed increase. In fact I might even mention this on the main forum.