In search of a better browser

[CaptinCrunch]

The popularity of Web browsers other than Internet Explorer could still be defined as cult. In the United States, the five most popular browsers after Internet Explorer — AOL's Netscape, the Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla and Firefox, Opera Software's Opera and Apple's Safari — together have about 5 per cent of the market. Internet Explorer has 94 per cent, according to WebSide-Story, a Web analysis firm.

But for the first time since Microsoft's browser beat out Netscape to gain dominance, its market share is eroding as users like Sandlin shift to other browsers.

No one is forecasting the demise of Internet Explorer, but the most recent data from WebSideStory show that of visits to websites the firm tracks, the number made using Explorer declined 1.3 per cent from early June to mid-July. At the same time, use of other browsers — Firefox and Opera in particular — rose.


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http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040812.gtbrowseaug12/BNStory/Technology/

[TexasStooge]

The Central Irving Public Library has their own public web browser program after upgrading their computers to Windows XP. They called it "The Internet". It's much similar to Internet Explorer, only it has a few drawbacks, When one window closes, they all close. Second, They can freeze up the minute you start the program up or you're right in the middle of sending a message. They should have it all fixed by now. My family never liked that idea.

There were ways to get into the original Microsoft Internet Explorer.

A few years ago, Irving ISD used to run on an internet program called Netscape. 4.7 was about as far as they went before they went back to Internet Explorer.

[stormraiser]

Been using Opera for about 4 or 5 years, ever since Netscape became LAME