Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share • Hacker News Board

IgorPartola wrote: post #30

ErrantX wrote: post #19

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I nearly fell off my chair when one of our new enterprise customers asked me if we could provide them the app... but with Firefox support because that was all they used. Heaven :)

You are very luck.

You are very grammar.

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Post by jrockway » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 8:31 PM UTC

NinetyNine wrote: post #23

pilif wrote: post #11

Unfortunately, I have to deal with a much different picture in my case. The web application is often used by either complete computer illiterates or users in large corporate installations (or both). My IE numbers (looking at the three biggest installations): IE percentage: 80, 90, 98 - IE6 percentage: 30, 50, 40 No Chrome. No Safari. Rest is Firefox (2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6). I weep when I consider the amount of develo…

Chrome is a disallowed program on our network by "Symantec Endpoint Protection". You can install Firefox but it's discouraged by the IT department. I wouldn't doubt if these setups are common among larger corporations.

That's what it's like here. Fortunately, you can just rename chrome.exe to not-chrome.exe, then everything works fine. The "protection" software works just well enough to get the contract, but not so well that you can't work around it.

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Post by Nick_S » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 9:38 PM UTC

a blog I run had 125,266 visits from 10/4 - 11/4. The browser usage percentages are as follows: firefox: 41%, chrome: 22%, internet explorer: 19%. Most of our traffic is referred from tech inclined sources. Personally, I have heard a ton of complaints about the amount of memory firefox uses while running compared to chrome...

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Post by ericabiz » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 9:39 PM UTC

silverlight wrote: post #49

ericabiz wrote: post #41

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I run a business blog that is in the Alexa top 10K for US users. It probably leans slightly more techie than average. Most people read it at work. Here are its stats for the past 30 days: Firefox 37.78% IE 26.63% Chrome 18.11% Safari 12.24% OS: Windows 74.55% Mac 16.01% iPhone 2.63% (does not include iPad/iPod) Linux 2.5%

Any way you could break down the specific IE versions?

Sure. Of the 26.63% who used IE, here's the version breakdown:

8.0 72.07% 7.0 20.93% 6.0 6.57%

There was a fraction of a percent using the IE9 beta, and one person using IE 5.5. :)

So it looks like about 1.7% of all traffic to my blog is using IE6, if I did that math right.

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Post by spenrose » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 9:52 PM UTC

Anyone have good stats for the browser-vs-non-browser (i.e. dedicated FB/twitter client, Instapaper, etc.) use of HTTP to consume HTML. I bet you'd find that c. 2002 IE had 90% of the browser and browsers had 99.9% of HTTP+HTML, but that now browsers have more like 90% of HTTP+HTML. Then there's the desktop browser vs mobile browser issue, and RSS ...

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Post by rbritton » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 10:19 PM UTC

kgosser wrote: post #22

This means nothing to those who develop for the Enterprise world :-(. We still have clients who are on Windows 2000+IE6. In a way, I can't wait to go back to consumer development.

The end of life of Windows 2k in July hopefully will mean this will change soon. Thankfully many companies will upgrade once there is no support whatsoever for their current OS.

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Post by NinetyNine » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 10:21 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #37

NinetyNine wrote: post #23

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Chrome is a disallowed program on our network by "Symantec Endpoint Protection". You can install Firefox but it's discouraged by the IT department. I wouldn't doubt if these setups are common among larger corporations.

If that's this issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38 Then it appears to be resolved for some time now. Another workaround here: http://www.vaidy-dyngp.com/2009/02/google-chrome-symantec-en...

I suppose the issue was more that there are barriers which require the effort beyond that which the 98th percentile will exert for the benefit that Chrome gives, and therefore 98% of users will stick with what's given to them.

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Post by jlees » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 10:26 PM UTC

cloug wrote: post #33

cryptoz wrote: post #14

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Wow, Google runs ads on Television? I consume all of my video media from the Internet these days so I guess I just didn't know, but that's surprising to me. Do they run the same type of promotional videos that you find on YouTube about Chrome, or are they totally different adverts?

they ran a massive campaign in the parisian subway a couple of months ago

And in the London tube over Christmas. Chrome marketing is pretty awesome.