Time to switch banks if all they support is IE this late in the game!
There are useragent switchers to masqurade FF also.
More people need to made to switch to FF w/ NoScript at the very least because it is
the opposite of current thinking. Say it with me "Whitelisting makes more sense than
blacklisting".
IE dominates because it ships on every PC made. If you broke it down on the Mac side
Safari probably tops the list there.
Winterlight wrote:
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.
