Firefox sails past 20% market share, IE drops below 70%

I was just posting #1.1 at the same time and agree.

Oh, that source is from w3schools? Well, that explains it. Here's an excerpt from the linked page Doc gave:

W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.

These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.

Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over a five year period, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends.

In other words, w3schools uses their own web traffic information. It's not a global standard like referenced in this article and on Marketshare. You're naturally going to find more users with alternative browsers on a web development site like w3schools.

You do realize that IE has been updated, right?

I'm sure if you tried the new one, you wouldn't be describing it as "last century" as it have many features that even Firefox right now only "plans" on integrating.

Yes Indie Army.....thank you......I work on computers all day.......I think I have a little bit of an idea :)

It's still last century.........

Well you need to go get that update I was speaking about then, cause you don't seem to know what I'm referring to.

Oh, and like you suggest, this isn't the last century, everyone works on computers all day now.

@The Indie Army - Please provide link or at least mention of these supposed features.  I have used almost every version of IE through IE8 (Beta 2) and cannot name one feature that IE has that I would want to see in Firefox, while the opposite is quite true. I can name features IE does not contain that Firefox does.  To start the list, how about a built in updater so that people using IE6 can be prompted to upgrade, even if they have turned off the annoying Windows Updater.

considering it's a simple matter of opinion, you'll have to find those for yourself. My experience has led me to see and use many features in IE8 that firefox simply does not offer. You however, may not use them, thus, they wouldn't be on your "list"

I keep trying Firefox every once in a while but there are so many sites that don't display right or aren't compatibile that it ends up being a choice of whether to use two browsers or just IE.  With all the new features in IE8 I don't really see much of a need anyway.  There's nothing available in FF that would entice me to the point of giving up compatibility or making me run 2 browsers to get it.

Thank you checkerbattery, finally someone realizes that FF isn't the greatest thing on earth. 

You must be going to some weird sites dungbeetle, because pretty much every site out there is designed to work in IE above all else. Either that you are just talking out of your butt for that sake that FF MUST be better than IE.

I'm guessing that you haven't done much web design Indie Army, or if you have, you use Frontpage. No FF isn't the greatest thing on Earth, but IE6 was the biggest turd ever dumped on the internet. Every browser has its own set of quirks. Most of the sites I've encountered that work in IE, but not FF, were Frontpage creations.

I do quite of bit of web design, and no, I don't use frontpage. I don't know what "quirks" you are talking about, but most of the websites I still use today, have the same design they had way back when IE was more dominent in the market. They didn't design the site for "other browsers" then write "huge portions to handle the quirks of IE" simply because there pratically was nothing else back then but IE. Nice try though.

You can make all the claims you want about what you do with your days, it doesn't make you sound smarter.

...it doesn't make you sound smarter.

Yeah it does. For one thing Indie, you've made it obvious that you don't design using CSS.