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Wait... I thought the browser wars were over?

• Renaud 12y ago
  IE still represents abut 20% of Browser usage, it's still more than Firefox and a lot more than Safari. You never know, the new direction MS is taking with regards to openness may bear its fruits. It's going to take a lot for MS to regain its past market shares, but personally, I'd prefer if it stayed around and compete with the other browsers. I don't want Chrome to end-up being the new IE.
  • Mikeb85 12y ago
    At least Chrome is constantly updated, is fast, and most parts of it (certainly the important parts) are open source... If there's going to be a browser monoculture, Chrome seems like the best option at the moment...
    • Piskvorrr 12y ago
      "If there's going to be a browser monoculture, IE6 seems like the best option at the moment." Yay for repeating the history?
      • Mikeb85 12y ago
        Key difference - Chrome updates itself (on Windows and Chrome OS, Linux package managers update it, not sure about OSX). You'd have to do something very, very wrong to wind up with a version of Chrome as outdated as IE6 had become...
    • iopq 12y ago
      You mean Firefox is the best option. All of it is open source.
      • tomswartz07 12y ago
        Well... so is the Chromium project.
        • TheCoelacanth 12y ago
          But practically no one uses Chromium; they're using Chrome, which has significant proprietary components.
      • Mikeb85 12y ago
        Except it has a slow JavaScript engine, crashes on certain pages, and just annoys me all around. I love open source, but I like things that work too.
  • WorldWideWayne 12y ago
    Where are you getting your numbers? IE is at ~60% of desktop browsers and sites that report combined numbers for multiple device types sometimes reduce their desktop numbers.