Topic: Internet Explorer decline reversed

[Clive]

Microsoft's Internet Explorer increased its market share in June 2010 for the first time in a year, according to statistics.

LINK

[Simon]

 

[sam]

WTF.

[davy51]

This all came about because of the leakage in firefox
I had the leakage bad and it made firefox almost unusable for me so I switched to chrome

Most uninformed users would just switch back to IE

[sam]

are you talking about memory leakage? I heard issues back in 2006, but I thought they'd fixed that.

[davy51]

Its still there if you leave firefox open for an hour or so it will be consuming 80% prossor and most of your memory

I havent tried the last two updates but dont think they have fixed it

[Rodders]

It would be very unwise to trust either FF or MSIE before first girding your loins with extra defences.  Both browsers are very capable and, once you're suitably armoured, of equal merit in IMHO.

I personally feel that FF's shortcomings in both functionality and security capability are being overlooked because it scores with it's 'underdog' appeal and what worries me is, amateur errors still being made even after they've captured public imagination enough to propel them to their current market share position.  I say it's time for FF to start 'walking the walk' now that they've won the hype war.

[davy51]

I have the new firefox beta 3.6.7 on my computer now it seems faster and smoother
I havent used it enough to find out if the leak has been fixed yet
The changelog says

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.7build1/releasenotes/

 Firefox 3.6.7 fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

    * Fixed several security issues.
    * Fixed several stability issues.


And bug fix

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20status1.9.2%3A.7-fixed

[sam]

Yes, I agree Firefox has become sluggish but then again we are asking lots of our webrowser now. The answer probably is Chrome (Chromium in my case, linux etc) - or architecture like it. We all love tabs, the problem is Firefox has them all in one job, now Chrome is smart and each tab is actually a separate thread running on your machine and thus is much faster. For Mozilla todo this will involve a serious rewrite. We all have multi-cores these days and so this nicely distributes the load.

[davy51]

I cant find the article right now but I did read firefox is expected to follow in the footsteps of chrome in firefox 4

[sam]

yeah, I've heard similar - still its gonna take them a while to catch up you would have thought. I have to say I wasn't impressed with chrome until recently... it absolutely excels at streaming video, still my main browser will stay as firefox for now.

[davy51]

I use chrome as my default browser and usually use the beta version

Havent had any big problems with it so far
Speed,accuracy and safety seem to be top of the line

Another Ive been using is Comodo Dragon its based on chrome


http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php

[sam]

I'd not heard of that - interesting that people are developing platforms on top of it.

[Simon]

I guess it's similar to what Avant is to IE.  I suppose it could also be argued that non-mainstream browsers are less likely to be targeted.

[GillE]

I've just downloaded Comodo Dragon and it certainly handles video much faster than FF.  It's a pity there doesn't seem to be an easy way to access more than eight bookmarks, though.