i'm sticking with firefox from loyalty to their awesomeness thus far. chrome could get me if they hit the news with something interesting enough to try again.

firefox has the best user support base, and amount of 3rd party add ons
Somethings that will be hard to top by the other browsers

what?? my beloved opera has only 0.7%?? such a great browser that was one of the first browsers to use tabs and came up with so many features like the "speed-dial" screen and, my favorite, "duplicate tab" that duplicates the tab with the whole history, is on the bottom... ofcourse they messed up with the new skin, but they have an option to turn it to the old one. i hope opera 10 will be more popular.

Opera is still the best.

I wind up using IE, FF, and Chrome....granted Chrome needs some fine tuning but i like it, FF is a good safe browser, but its terribly slow at opening and page loading, IE is normally what I click by default just because of the almost guaranteed compatablity of it.

I like the picture in the article

@neodawg: Figured you guys might.

I'm slowly being persuaded to switch back to IE, Microsoft's marketing team are geniuses. If only they had thought to put Vista on that shirt, they wouldn't have to come out with 7 so soon.

I only use FF and IE. Some things still only work in IE. Safari crashes on my iphone every 5 minutes and chrome is still too new to be a serious web browser for me.

From what I'm seeing here, IE is still attractive. very attractive...

FireFox mostly on my PC and Safari on my Mac, but I use IE for testing our App and have IE Tabs for Firefox on my PC for stuff that doesn't like the Moz Engine.

IE definitely looks good in this post!

I think it's mostly because people are getting tired of having IE pre-installed on their computer. They might feel like they're stuck with it to browse the internet. Then, when Google announced Chrome, ignorant people were like "wow, I have a choice other than IE?" And thus some of them migrated to Chrome.

firefox. but i would switch to chrome when they fix the many bugs that it has. opera is good too. i some times use that too.

Opera. Its the fastest, aside from Safari it has some good speed. Its reliable, the Tab and Quicklaunch page are just beautiful. All around excellent Browser. Firefox is ok.. to me its a recolored IE.

I use FF (3.1 B2) on my mac and my PC. It's fast, stable, and not run on 2/3 of the computers out there. The fact that it's not the most-used web browser brings with it some security associations. (People are less likely to code for a FF exclusive loophole than an IE one just because of user base). I never really got into using Safari, as I was so used to using FF, I installed it right away on my mac. I have IE8 on my pc, but I only use that when I need to, as some websites still only allow that.

I have Opera on my blackberry, as it seems to display certain web pages better than the normal BB web browser. It's cludgy though.

Chrome, all the way. FF & IE are way too slow at everything (FF being slightly faster); Safari blows: it crashes way too often. Uninstalled Safari and thinking of removing FF soon. Only use IE when certain sites don't support Chrome (or Chrome has bug); but I always check with FF and it seems that FF also doesn't always support some pages. Let's see what IE 8 has in store but I'll stick with Chrome.

Firefox. No contest. There are so many plugins available for it, you can fine tune it for speed, and with the right plugins, its the most secure browser out there. The only time I ever touch IE is for web testing. Even then, I run it virtually.

I use IE mainly (if not only) because it's embedded in Windows. It has its advantages but I do have the feeling that I'm stuck with it. I tried Firefox and I loved it but I just don't like having 2 browsers installed.

Plus, it's only web browsing. As long as it's light and fast and has tab-browsing, it's all I need.

I use IE, mostly because I've been using it since 1996 and it's hard to switch. That and the Firefox fanatics bug the cr$p out of me. I don't really have anything else against it though.

Chrome all the way. There are still a few sites not 100% compatible but Chrome is fast and the most user friendly of all the browsers.

Firefox? LOL please

Opera is the best. Opera has everything Firefox has without needing addons - obviously since it has the latest inovations first usually not Firefox. Addons - sm'addons - I will give em that addon's are just a more simple way to do things already possible in Opera but Opera still is the best. Firefox comes in second as my backup - IE is a distant 3rd back only when the other two don't work because of a page's poor coding. IE's third place is pretty much tied with Chrome. Chrome needs to be a lot more customizable but as a browser it does have a very sleek look.

I even use Opera Mini on my cell phone. It is so much better than the standard browsing with cell phones and I'm talking a regular Motorola Razor not a smart phone.

I tried FF 3, because IE 7 crashed a lot. FF is faster and never crashes. I only use IE now to run live update (for XP Pro).

Opera for me since 1999.

Good Riddance IE u have lost the web browser war !!!! You suck!!!

thumbs up for fire fox

Ever since Firefox became a cute industry buzzword it was no better than IE. I discovered Opera 5 years ago and I haven't looked back since, I refuse to use FF and only use IE for websites that don't like Opera. (like my bank...how scary is that?)

If websites were coded properly, Opera would win the day but since M$ has forced IE into so many computers (brief moment of silence for Netscape...) web developers are forced to code badly to get IE to work for the majority of people.

Opera is darn fast!
Chrome started out being hacked the first week of it's release.
This made me decide to wait for an updated version.
LAter I didn't hear anything of them anymore, and left chrome for what it was, never really trying it out.
FireFox is still suffering from child deseases especially when combined with Flash.
It's only natural that IE fades while the rest rises!
About 10 years ago there was only internet Explorer and Netscape, and IE goes together with Windows,so naturally most beginners start with it, and only later switch over(when necessary).
It's major fall has been IE5, IE6, and IE7.
They always had a bigger memory footprint, pages loaded slower.. IE7 has improved though, and IE8 has even more!

I switched after seeing too many security updates for IE6 to Opera and later to FF;which is my favorite browser today.

1 percent drop for IE in a month??? Big Deal???

from my calculation, IE has about 67.55 months to go. That's five and a half years. Who knows what will happen in between. Maybe Microsoft will buy over Mozilla? Maybe Google will buy Mozilla? We all know that Google came up with Google video and when it wasnt that successful, it buys YouTube.

Five and a half years is a loooooong.. time.. haha

Firefox for me as it's updated far more frequently than IE and is far more stable. The add-ons are a great plus as they have enhanced surfing the internet far more than IE has ever done.

I pre-dominantly use Firefox and only use IE when there is a specific site that Firefox won't open. For example, being in the Navy, there are many DoD public websites that won't open in Firefox because it doesn't recognize their security certificates. IE works just fine. I use FF for everything else though. I think this article is a little misleading. IE7 has been around for a while now and new software usually gets attention. If IE8 comes out soon enough I'm sure a lot of people will "try it out" right away and you'll see a huge spike in downloads just like Chrome.