IE has been "Losing GROUND" to FF, but there's nowhere that FF is credibly claimed to more popular than IE
IE is #1 everywhere, what is different is the lag between IE in #1 and FF in #2
a couple more poles from february show FF in the low 30% range while IE is below in the high 40% range
No matter which stastics you want to trust ALL of the trackers list IE #1 FF#2, Chrome #3, Safari in #4, opera #5.
But that's not what you hear from FF users...
there just isn't THAT much difference in browsers....
I talk just about weekly to a guy who gets so worked up about "the evil of M$" that you can actually hear the spittle (or is that venom?) striking the mouthpiece of his phone at the mention of ANY M$ product...
Hey, there's a popular tech website where it is commented that "IE9 might allow MS to regain the #1 position... not they they've ever lost it.
The fact is that I work with others that swear by FF and at the drop of a hat they'll regail you with explainations of what is wrong with IE... yet I've never seen ANY of the thing they complain about. meanwhile they'll practically drool over how perfect FF is... the rub is I get to hear them cursing at their computers when some page won't load or they are forced to restart.... or ever re-install their browser because of some glitch...
I've had to re-install IE ONCE, and that was IE9 on my notebook...
And I nly installed it saturday...
what went wrong?
Another application that didn't do what I wanted it to do (Apricorn EZ Gig II)
which would NOT clone a Win7 installation also won't uninstall either, and after running the UNinstaller and allowing it to reboot to complete the DE-installation, the computer wouldn't restart and the latest system restore that would actually work was March 5th
Kind of annoying because this installation of windows only goes back to Feb 12th
what's most annoying is because Ez Gig II was installed before I was able to clone
my installation my cloned backup also has it... (and I can't uninstall that either...)
what I don't like about FF is how damned difficult it is to migrate your "favorites" from
one computer to another so a User can have the SAMe favorites on all their computers (home office and notebook
I can migrate an IE favorites list from one computer to another for someone far faster
than I could explain how to it verbally.
And it doesn't matter if I'm snatching raw data from a dead computer to a newer computer
with a different OS and or IE version...
I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000 favorites/bookmarks.
I tried to import them into chrome about ayear ago, chrome didn't import them, what chrome did was DESTROY the organization of those favorites bookmarks so even IE couldn't use them...
I wound up formatting that HDD and switchiing to a backup clone.... Obvious I didn't try Chrome again...
And I can't imagine why anyone would...
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