Internet Explorer will still be around in five years when Firefox will have, at best, a loyal cult following I think the one thing the article misses is that a

Internet Explorer will still be around in five years when Firefox will have, at best, a loyal cult following I think the one thing the article misses is that a good deal of that cult following are web developers who in the end set the tempo of what is adopted and what is not. If Firefox had not been so much better at helping web developers it would have never seen the surge in popularity that it has. They where also instrumental in fighting the HTML 5 video fight. Some times it's not the numbers but the quality of those numbers. Chrome has shaved off some web developers for sure but I think it is safe to say that the lions share of developers still use FF as their primary browser, with the others using Chrome and a few using Opera and I don't see that trend changing unless someone just pulls so far ahead that it becomes more painful to develop with FF.