IE down to 56% of WinCustomize userbase

Firefox at 38%

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WinCustomize.com gets millions of visitors a month. But of those millions of users, fewer and fewer of them seem to be using Internet Explorer.  At one time, over 90% of our users were using IE.  Now, it's down to 56%.

Of that 56%, about a third of them have already upgraded to IE 7. The rest are using IE6.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I always use Firefox except when some things have to run with IE but v.6. And IE 6 is more easy to use also. IE 7 didn't work for me.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I usually use IE7, but have FF and Opera for comparison/bug-squashing.

Tabs were the fave part of Opera eons ago...now IE7 has them so there's less 'need' to be using Opera...

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use IE 7 and I love it. I could'nt ever see any reason to use any other browser. If it has security flaws, then use a good firewall, DUH. Also IE 6 is still ok, though it does not do the tabbed browsing. Personally the only thing that IE and Microsoft could improve on is making it with different skins, BUT that's why we have Stardock!

Speedy
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have been using Opera for quite some time. Like Jafo, switching back and forth from that to IE. However, lately I've been taking a liking to Firefox.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's been my experience that people who are technologically savvy are more prone to check out alternatives. I've not yet run into an average user who was consumed by the Firefox propaganda machine. I still have a few friends left at school who are using Firefox, but can't tell me why they're using it instead of IE, only that someone recommended that they should. Opera has been making some pleasing inroads. I greatly prefer the speed and stability of Opera over Firefox. It's my prediction that you'll see IE7 percentages rise over the next year. While I'm sure that they wont be nearly as high as the post-Netscape numbers, I would be willing to wage that, with the Microsoft corporate machine behind it, Firefox wont be able to keep up with IE7, now that IE is back in active development. That is of course, unless Microsoft repeats history and doesnt maintain consistant development on IE. The one fact that keeps me warm and fuzzy at night (as I am not a fan of Firefox) is that IE6+ will remain the business standard browser, which will keep the majority browser share across the web.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use Firefox, and love it . Firefox out of the box isn't all that great, but adding a few extensions makes it perfect (for me). I was an IE user for a long time (forced by my mom, who always uninstalled firefox every time I installed it) but now I can do whatever with my new computer.

I have... 4 browsers installed on my computer (Firefox, IE7, Opera, and Flock)
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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I use 3 browsers.


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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Firefox is just plain good. I use IE7 for banking and only because my banks site doesn't play nice with Firefox and also for Windows updates. Opera is OK but who cares!
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was using Firefox and Opera as alternate browsers but now with IE7 there is simply no need. Of course it all comes down to what you personally prefer but many of the reasons for not using IE no longer apply.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i used too use FF, but now i use flock. i only use it because it has a flickr uploader, del.icio.us intergration and blogging features
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Obviously most people use IE6 over IE7. Why? Because they're too cheap to actually have a legal version of XP. Only reason.

IE7 annihilates every browser out there. Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE6... whatever.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use Opera only. But have Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 for webdev/test new website design.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use Opera but use Firefox to upload to wincustomize, this is because you cant upload stuff to wincustomize with Opera which sucks big time.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use 3 browsers.


geeze Iben., you are realy a person of few words....

Before IE7 arrived, i was using Opera.., new i dont know why but i think that i prefer this new IE vertion...

(maybe microsoft wash my brain )
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Opera for the truely great win!
Thankfully Jafo it has far more useful features than simply tabbed browsing (and even that is a better implementation than any other browser I've seen when used in full MDI mode.)

IE7 strikes me as far too little too late. Now it's only 2 years out of date instead of 5.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Obviously most people use IE6 over IE7. Why? Because they're too cheap to actually have a legal version of XP. Only reason.


Don't actually need a genuine copy of XP as IE7,Windows Genuine Advantage & Windows Media Player 11 have all been cracked allowing pirated copies to install latest software.
By the way i use IE7 and have a genuine copy of Windows Media Center.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wonder ... I don't use IE, I use an app called NetCaptor but it runs on top of IE. I assume then that I'm considered an IE user?
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use both IE7 and Firefox, but Firefox does not impress me as much as it used to.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thankfully Jafo it has far more useful features than simply tabbed browsing (and even that is a better implementation than any other browser I've seen when used in full MDI mode.)

I actually used Opera almost exclusively [on dialup] up till the advent of Wincustomize...where I helped with the opera/WC debugging...until becoming a Moderator where some of the features for admins didn't work as well in FF or Opera...so, since I'm on WC 24/7 it's been IE6/7 for me...

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm now using Window Vista wich comes with IE7 and i realy love it, it seems to run great i've had no prob's at all

Love the tabbs.....
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OPERA and FIREFOX here.

IE7 is slow and don't block enough ads according to me.

FF's flashblock and adblock extensions really change my experience of internet surfing.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
IE7 mainly for me. But Opera sometimes.

Just don't like FF2. Not sure why, just don't like the feel of it.

IE7 + Adblock sorts any issues. Adblock also plugs into Opera and FF2 which is nice.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use FF because I like the skins and extensions. Speaking of which, wouldn't it be cool to have the great skinners here at WC get into Firefox skinning?
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I find it funny when people say that now with IE7 out there's no reason to use FF any more - what exactly are the reasons to use IE7? As far as I'm concerned if I'm going to switch back to IE I'll need a damn good reason to do that, and having features that barely come close to what FF offers just ain't gonna cut it. Sure IE7 is light years ahead of IE6 but after 5 years that is the bare minimum I'd expect. There's just absolutely nothing that IE7 does better than Firefox, and when you take the FF extensions into account there's no competition. I mean, browsing the net w/o AdBlock - the horror!