It may be time for MS to exit the browser arena, seeing as FF and
Chrome seem to be battling for the championship.
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IE still dominates the browser market by big numbers. Most users are
not interested in or even aware of using other browsers unless IT or
a tech head introduces them to it. I personally use three
browsers. I use IE7 for anything to do with banking, or financial
matters and I have never had a problem. But if something does go
south I don't want the bank, or the brokerage to tell me that they
only support IE. I usually have FF 3 running with TV listings and my
GMail account, and to look up a few things. But my primary browser is Opera.
Firefox is for tech heads who like to tweak every little thing and
have the ability to run addons. Opera is a fast all in one solution
for everybody else. Opera even comes with bit torrent support. Opera
invented Tabs and nobody handles Tabs as well as Opera, plus it has
speed dial feature that is so addictive I wouldn't want to browse without it.
I think the numbers that get put out are misleading because the
sources are usually FF advocates and Opera has the ability to pretend
to be IE to get you past those sites at MS that insist that you are
IE. I am not saying that FF isn't a nice quick browser but after
using both for many years I think Opera is superior in almost every
way and doesn't get the credit it should. Probably, because they went
through a period of trying to sell Opera, which of course didn't work
and sent a lot of users to FF.
