Internet Explorer 8 already loses market share
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 appears to be losing market share, even though the browser has been on the market for less than a week. As of 8:00 am Monday, IE8—released Thursday–held 1.86% of the browser market, down from a high of 2.59% on Sunday, according to market watcher Net Applications. The most likely reason for the decline is that early adopters of IE8 are switching back to the more familiar, and–at this point—reliable Explorer 7 browser. Explorer 8 includes a number of new tools, like a feature called Web slices that lets users grab dynamic content such as stock quotes or auction results from third party sites, that, while potentially useful, may take some time getting used to.
Additionally, Explorer 8 uses default support for some new Web publishing standards that are not supported by a number of major Web publishers. As a result, some IE8 users have reported problems viewing some sites. “After downloading IE8 I cannot print any card from American Greetings. The message I get is, ‘An error occurred during the operation,’” a user named Bob complained last week on Microsoft’s IE8 forum. Some IE8 adopters reported that even pages built with Microsoft’s own Web publishing software, Microsoft Publisher, failed to render properly in the new browser. “I created my company’s Web site using the MS Publisher 2007 template. After upgrading IE7 to IE8 my menu tabs and many important images no longer show,” wrote a user named Phil Wheeler.
Source: InfoWeek
Comments(42)
first!
loooooool
The World is using Firefox !
How do you get rid of this annoying Add to Favorites Bar? Also if i delete the folder in my favorites tab it just comes back
Give it time, it will end up back on top. In the mean time, people will just have to learn to use the Compatibility Mode option with web sites that have trouble in IE8.
@2 The world doesn't use Firefox. I've yet to come across an enterprise customer that uses Firefox. 99.9% of the blue chips use Internet Explorer.
Hey martin, please link to your news sources…
Guys, IE is sh1t, only kids and newbies, that don't know anything about computers, use it. lol
Btw, even if Firefox is better, it needs a strong revision on it's memory leak bugs.
article is just "let's write an article to hate on microsoft". Don't get me wrong i hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but i really doubt the quality of one day statistics. Also internet explorer 8 is a step forward compared to the ie7 and ie6. The problem is that ie6 and to a certain degree ie7 were not standards-compliant and since they had the greatest market share, web-designers had to hack their code so it would display under IE. Now they're feeling burn for not coding according to standards, and microsoft is feeling it because consumers are not aware of this.
As a user of IE8 i can say IE7 is better, trying to find a way to downgrade..
Well, Ie really sucks, and somehow i think Google Crome is the fastest and the most stable.
But in schools and companies everyone usue the ie so its good to have a better versine, anyway, still a Chrome fan.
link to your news sources
c H r O m E !!!
I use FF too but as FF isn't supported by many online betting shops (horses and dogs)IE8 is excellent. The only problem I have is deleting addresses in the address bar by accident. I scroll down the right side, out of habit, making it easy to delete addresses.
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lol only people who know how to use computers use firefox then rest of the world who don't know about computers use what is built in the system witch is "IE" = noobs….
"lol only people who know how to use computers use firefox"
Actually, people who know how to use computers tend to use Opera. Firefox is like a clunky box of Legos that you have to piece together to get something useful, which increases its bloat and lowers its speed in the process. All the tests out there tend to test FF out of the box, while Opera has 150 FF-like plugins already built-in.
Chrome is ok, but it doesn't do much besides basic browsing.
FF is nice enough, sure, way better than IE, but I'd bet most people who claim Firefox is the best and gloat about it over other browsers have never even tried Opera in the last couple years, if ever.
As a web developer I can tell you that microsoft is very very very big pain in my ass. I don't get it why almost all companies still spending millions to make with internet explorer compatible websites. Microsoft break every iso and w3 standard and nobody cares about that…
I just re-installed Vista on my machine and installed IE8 from the start…it's pretty snappy and so far I'm not missing Firefox.
Yeah Chrome Rulz XD
I use Firefox 3 and its simply brilliant, I've tried IE8 and its not all that great but its a huge improvement over IE7, you gotta be on crack to want to use IE7.
@Flapjack #3 – Just right click in the toolbar and uncheck 'Favorites Bar'. You can then close IE and delete the folder and it should stay gone….but may regenerate if you decide to use a webslice.
I've been using IE8 for a few days now and it's ok. It's very fast and the new features are a nice touch. I'm now saying it's perfect though as there are obvious developer issues.
If I was to compare IE8 to FF3 with no third party addons included…I would have to say IE8 would probably win as it's way faster and the standard features are better. What makes FF a great browser is all the extensions such as noscript and adblock. I'm not knocking FF before the fan boys start getting too excited…it's a safe, secure browser with the right extension but with a little common sense, IE is a safe browser too.
Just remember Mozilla regularly have to patch security holes in FF with each new release and FF does get infected with malware too.
I installed IE8 on Vista x64 to have a look and it reduced the whole system to a snails pace, apps were hanging or taking ages to open etc. As soon as I recovered the system before the install everything was running silky smooth again. Only M$ could release something that screws up their own products! Never again. Firefox all the way!
I also have Vista x64 and I totally recognize #23's experience!
Explorer is as useless as nicole richie and paris hilton
I have been using it for a while on xp, I have no problems with it. Compared IE7 its an improvement. When a page crashes it restart only that tab. When you have problems with a page you can use compatibility mode.
ummm MS Publisher 2007 for for web layout??
I was watching one video from DailyMotion in IE8 in FULL SCREEN mode. After sometime, I decided to restore that video to normal size from fullscreen, and wholllllaaa…. all controls, commands freezed… IE8 refuses to accept 'Esc' button, not even showing any controls those which usually comes near bottom. COMPLETE FREEZE
Only way to get rid of this full screen mode is killing that IE8 process (good thing MS IE8 did !) itself !!
Anybody experiences same?
Links?
Firefox is king.
1 – FIREFOX
2 – CHROME
3 – INTERNET EXPLORER
4 – OPERA
@ Alaskan
you can use IE-Tab Addons with Firefox and you will get your websites working .
i tried tried
IE is just worth
Safari fast but so closed
Opera …ok but no enough Addons
Firefox do what you want !
safari 4 for windows, anybody?
I am using the 64-bit version and I gotta say, i am really impressed, although its mostly taking advantage of being 64-bit that it seems very fast (even faster than firefox) but still firefox is more reliable.
seriously, i don't remember installing a browser that requires configuration on the first run, firefox only has the import bookmarks question and thats it
i spent 7 minutes with IE8 5min to the required configuration, and 2min to check how bad it was, sites were generally slower, probably due to ads (no effective ad blocker) and the whole "compatibility thing" sucks, i get like tiny buttons on google…
seriously.. i could "tune it" to solve all these problems, but i'm pretty sure there is a TON of people who don't even know what tabs are… i use IE solely for windows updates, there isn't a single website i can't visit properly with firefox…
opera and safari might be a bit faster then firefox, but there aren't even close to firefox's customization and extensible abilities…
@noone #35:
5 mins to click a few buttons??? Are you a slow reader or something??
As for ads…well I don't get any at all..no banners, no flash ads, no delayed ads, no popups/unders etc. Perhaps you could've spent that 7 minutes to better effect. Don't tell me, you spend less than 7 minutes in total setting up FF with all the third party addons which block ads, scripts as well as add other features which do not come as standard with FF? I'd be amazed if you do considering you spent 5 minutes clicking 4 or 5 boxes after installing IE8
It's important to use a browser you're most comfortable with but IE8 does work pretty well. It loads instantly for me aswell as displays pages faster than FF. However, there are a few things that could be done to tidy it up but no software program is perfect on first release…even FF developers have to fix things on new releases.
IE8 does nothing to fix the shortcomings of ie5/6/7. It's still an inferior browser. I used it for all of 10 minutes before going back to browser bliss (firefox).
If you can get an extension to do it in FF, there's a good chance it's already built-in to Opera. Most of the "new" stuff in FF3 and Chrome has been in Opera for years. 90% of browser advancement in the last 10 years has come from Opera, with other browsers then copying those features, poorly.
I'll say it again, I'd bet most people who claim Firefox is the best and gloat about it over other browsers have never even tried Opera in the last couple years, if ever.
Here's a link for FF people. The comments section contains more info than the actual article.
http://www.geekstogo.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-vs-opera-95/
@31 More like:
1 – FIREFOX
2 – CHROME
3 – INTERNET EXPLORER
4 – konqueror, epiphany, galleon, and hell, even telnet if it comes down to this
[dead last] – TURDPERA
Die IE6, long live FF!!!
CO-SIGN @ Wes
"Actually, people who know how to use computers tend to use Opera"
I'm pretty damn good on a computer lol.
"Additionally, Explorer 8 uses default support for some new Web publishing standards that are not supported by a number of major Web publishers."-Martin, author of this article
What new standards? CSS2.1 is not new, and has been mostly supported by Opera, Firefox, and Safari for some time now. Or did you mean the new IE-only stuff like Slices and Activities which are supported by practically no one?
The guy complaining about his site not working that he created using Publisher should get a clue, Publisher is not a good tool for Web design and never has been.