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by nikster 4383 days ago
Wait... I thought the browser wars were over?
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Renaud 4383 days ago
IE still represents abut 20% of Browser usage, it's still more than Firefox and a lot more than Safari.

You never know, the new direction MS is taking with regards to openness may bear its fruits. It's going to take a lot for MS to regain its past market shares, but personally, I'd prefer if it stayed around and compete with the other browsers.

I don't want Chrome to end-up being the new IE.

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Mikeb85 4383 days ago
At least Chrome is constantly updated, is fast, and most parts of it (certainly the important parts) are open source... If there's going to be a browser monoculture, Chrome seems like the best option at the moment...
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Piskvorrr 4383 days ago
"If there's going to be a browser monoculture, IE6 seems like the best option at the moment." Yay for repeating the history?
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Mikeb85 4382 days ago
Key difference - Chrome updates itself (on Windows and Chrome OS, Linux package managers update it, not sure about OSX).

You'd have to do something very, very wrong to wind up with a version of Chrome as outdated as IE6 had become...

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iopq 4383 days ago
You mean Firefox is the best option. All of it is open source.
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Mikeb85 4382 days ago
Except it has a slow JavaScript engine, crashes on certain pages, and just annoys me all around. I love open source, but I like things that work too.
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tomswartz07 4383 days ago
Well... so is the Chromium project.
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TheCoelacanth 4382 days ago
But practically no one uses Chromium; they're using Chrome, which has significant proprietary components.
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WorldWideWayne 4382 days ago
Where are you getting your numbers?

IE is at ~60% of desktop browsers and sites that report combined numbers for multiple device types sometimes reduce their desktop numbers.

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