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Visualizing The Fall Of Internet Explorer

more like lol there was that much usage of IE in 2008?
pretty much every one i know dumped IE way before then
 
Poor Opera, no one played with it in 2008, no one plays with it in 2015. I am surprised however that Japan and South Korea supposedly use IE when nearly everyone else uses Chrome. Iceland is a little shocking too, but Iran not so much.
 
Statcounter, with its traffic-based (not user-based) collection methodology, is the data source. What the charts actually show is traffic slanted by what heavy web users do, not what browser is used by more users. There are also geographical weighting problems with that data.
 
I wonder where they are getting their numbers from. According to Akamai Chrome has 33% of mobile and tablet web browsers, but IE is still at 53% for desktop use vs chrome at 27%.

IE isn't as dead as people would have you believe. If you add up everything together, Chrome is leading, but desktop devices are still mostly running IE.
 
i used opera for the longest time after i jumped off ie.

I am surprised japan is using ie more so than i am surprised the 3 computers in Greenland are using ie
 
Wait a min. If like 30-40% of deskops "on the internet" are xp machines (business) and 30-40% of desktops "on the internet" are win7 machines(again business never upgrade), Then how is chrome just dominating? There is no way in hell businesses are using chrome. So is this magic graph filtering out all business machines and some how figuring out its a retail box?
 
Well i can think of 3 ways this graph is getting info
1. the sleezy way where it takes a sampling of the meta data going through the internet where it reports back what browser and version is being used
2. the honest way a survey is tossed out and a sampling is extrapolated for an average and japan is trolling the survey No way in hell does a modern country use IE.
3. they made it up
 
Chrome is awesome. I love people using it because it makes me money. Every computer that uses chrome allways has malware or spyware on it. Got to love chrome and can install extentions without a prompt are you sure. Virus makers and malware companies love chrome.

It's so nice that people that use chrome do not want security or privacy at all. They only want a browser that works on everything without plugins. They also love a program thats sucks back over 100 megs of memory for every site in a tab.
 
Wolf_Tech said:
Chrome is awesome.
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Chrome is so awesome they made a computer that that's all it has. It's way better then that crap that Microsoft sells and Apple sells. Can you believe people still buy computers that do more then run Chrome? Looooooosers!
 
As a FireFox user, in the US, from 2008, and earlier, to 2015, which your Charts omit, and thus are inaccurate, guess the rest of your findings are suspect too?
 
I used Netscape then IE 8 9 10 and a little 11 then opera and then chrome i think i have been on chrome since 2005-2007
 
The only thing IE is good for is DLing another browser
 
Wolf_Tech said:
Chrome is awesome. I love people using it because it makes me money. Every computer that uses chrome allways has malware or spyware on it. Got to love chrome and can install extentions without a prompt are you sure. Virus makers and malware companies love chrome.

It's so nice that people that use chrome do not want security or privacy at all. They only want a browser that works on everything without plugins. They also love a program thats sucks back over 100 megs of memory for every site in a tab.
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Yeah, I stay away from chrome. It seems to let things through other browsers don't.
 
I don't know, Chrome has always been fine for me. It seems that as soon as it became the dominant browser, people started to hate it, and then claim they hated it all along.

Chrome, to me, has always been faster. Faster in just loading a new tab, and faster in working with those tabs. That's why I use it.
 
Based on what, Exactly? The inaccurate, Chrome manipulated, statistics at Statcounter? The Wikimedia site report? It certainly isn't based on the industry trusted NetMarketShare.
I call shenanigans.
 
Chrome = popular, because it gets installed with programs. Have fun having everything you do on the internet tracked. (Although that's probably happening anyway).

Still happy with Firefox and it's plugins.
 
Good riddance. I hate to think of all the lost hours of my life I spent debugging IE specific issues in web sites or apps.

I'm interested in seeing what Edge can do, but IE caused me so much trouble that it'll be some years before I take any MS browser seriously.
 
sleepeeg3 said:
Chrome = popular, because it gets installed with programs. Have fun having everything you do on the internet tracked. (Although that's probably happening anyway).

Still happy with Firefox and it's plugins.
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by that account IE should be dominating.

And, chrome isn't tracking your behavior any more than IE, FF, Opera etc.. Microsoft launched an ad campaign to make it out like Chrome/Google were the first and only ones to do this. Now Windows 10 has keylogging and web-tracking at the OS level by default. Are you really going to jump on the bandwagon of Microsoft's ad campaign, absorbing their desperate attempt to point the finger? And you want to hop on that bandwagon after the whole NSA public spill?

Remember who one of the BIGGEST partners to the NSA snooping policy were:

Microsoft.

Not that I hate them. I use Windows 7 at work and home, I love Halo, I play games on PC. But I don't quote catchphrases and buzzwords from a 2012 ad campaign in order to justify my choices: I like chrome because it just feels faster to me. IE sucks, we all know that and Firefox just feels outdated and antique next to using chrome. Don't know what it is, but its how I feel. Is it placebo? maybe, but obviously Google is doing something right.
 
^ Google is doing something right yea except it still has ways to go when it comes to optimizing ram usage. ^^ I wouldn't care if only it didn't make my adobe after effects renderings crash when PC has been running for a while (I don't restart/shut down comp other than if I have to) and there's too many tabs open (5+ is usually enough to stall it).
 
RPGWiZaRD said:
^ Google is doing something right yea except it still has ways to go when it comes to optimizing ram usage. ^^ I wouldn't care if only it didn't make my adobe after effects renderings crash when PC has been running for a while (I don't restart/shut down comp other than if I have to) and there's too many tabs open (5+ is usually enough to stall it).
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I've not really encountered an issue with too many chrome tabs, but you aren't the only one who's told me that. So I'm guessing I'm either not noticing it or I'm just lucky. I use chrome at work (right now! such slacker, much lazy, wow!) and this is on a first-gen C2D with 2 (yest 2)GB of RAM running Windows 7. I currently have 7 tabs open and chrome is still quite usable.

at home I run 16GB, so I wouldn't imagine I would notice issues if I cant see them running 2GB.
 
Yea well I have 16GB RAM, you'd think that would be enough, going to 32GB or whatever for a webbrowser not causing crashes while rendering vids in AE doesn't sound right. :p

I don't think it's the amount it uses, I'm actually just set the program to use just 2GB per core so 8GB with my quadcore CPU and I could run for example any game meanwhile rendering without AE stalling (ofc with choppy performance though) and I had 8GB RAM earlier and experience was quite the same now with 16GB so I just think it's the way Chrome utilizes RAM that's a bit "dodgy". It could very well be happening despite I'd upgrade to 32GB I'm suspecting.
 
RPGWiZaRD said:
Yea well I have 16GB RAM, you'd think that would be enough, going to 32GB or whatever for a webbrowser not causing crashes while rendering vids in AE doesn't sound right. :p

I don't think it's the amount it uses, I'm actually just set the program to use just 2GB per core so 8GB with my quadcore CPU and I could run for example any game meanwhile rendering without AE stalling (ofc with choppy performance though) and I had 8GB RAM earlier and experience was quite the same now with 16GB so I just think it's the way Chrome utilizes RAM that's a bit "dodgy". It could very well be happening despite I'd upgrade to 32GB I'm suspecting.
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Like I said, I think I'm just not noticing it. Many people have complained about chrome being a RAM hog, so it may just be me not really seeing it.
 
sleepeeg3 said:
Chrome = popular, because it gets installed with programs. Have fun having everything you do on the internet tracked. (Although that's probably happening anyway).

Still happy with Firefox and it's plugins.
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I use Firefox but if people want Chrome without the tracking they can use "SRWare Iron: The browser of the future - based on the free Sourcecode "Chromium" - without any problems at privacy and security."

https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
 
KazeoHin said:
Remember who one of the BIGGEST partners to the NSA snooping policy were:

Microsoft.
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Which Microsoft denies.

Look at the url I provided to the Iron browser then look at the difference between Chrome and Iron. Notice Iron stops all the tracking that Chrome does so all browsers are not the same.
 
nightanole said:
Wait a min. If like 30-40% of deskops "on the internet" are xp machines (business) and 30-40% of desktops "on the internet" are win7 machines(again business never upgrade), Then how is chrome just dominating? There is no way in hell businesses are using chrome. So is this magic graph filtering out all business machines and some how figuring out its a retail box?
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hate to break your bubble but i work for a 3k sized business and your choice is ie or chrome
 
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