Fortunately they did allow use of ‘unsupported’ Firefox to deal with the rest of the world.

See also recent ‘Register’ article about a similar situation at ‘Orange’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/08/orange_and_ie6/

Nice to know there is another Brown in here

With response to your message, I use IE for emails and links, its because I use Live Messenger so when a new email pops in, its just a matter of clicking on it so it takes me straight to the inbox of hotmail.
While if I set firefox as my default browser, then I would then need to enter my password for hotmail everything, as when MSN parses the URL to the browser, the browser wont automatically login to Hotmail but rather kick you out and as for login details.

Regards,
David

The next issue we face is the potential monopoly threatened by Google Chrome. Many people seem to view Google as a beneficent organisation but it is in fact a very profitable business which is constantly vying for market share and further profit opportunities. Through their share of the Search Engine market Google could quite possibly have a browser monopoly within the next 3 years, especially in light of the blurring between the lines of web and local application services.

Karl

p.s. I’d like to point out that I’m neither a fan of MS or Google, I just want a fair playing field on the internet (as I’m sure most of us do).

the ability to choose your browser in windows 7 will surely help in reducing their monopoly.

I am sure all webmasters have faced the problems trying to get websites to work with IE and this has often led to the exclusion of other browser, have seen so many sites that said “best viewed with Internet Explorer xxx” – this is not the way the web should be working, browsers should conform to standards we should not have to conform to THEIR standards.

Sooner they lose out the better, far as I am concerned !!

My experience is Techno weenies use FireFox generally, the great unwashed use MSIE (whatever version) because that is what their computer came loaded with. There is a general fear of changing anything, in case they murder their pride and joy, and if their system is updated at anytime it is because the automatic updates is switched on

Not a fan of IE8 like FireFox it has java issues and the pages display differently. I suppose it is just another argument for CSS over Tables for layout. But you can force IE8 back into IE7 mode with a bit of code in the meta tags which I am doing whilst I teach myself CSS. (UGH!) The problem here is, all told I have a few thousand pages spread over 15 websites. Bring back Win95! life was so simple then.

Paul

@David,

I’ve tried Opera. It was perfectly fine; seemed more responsive than Firefox (may have just been a “grass is greener on the other side” thing, though)… but the lack of addons kept me using Firefox really.

When you said: “I personally use all three browsers, I use IE as my default browser for email and links, firefox for my daily sites preloaded on the tabs”. Why do you use IE for links/email instead of just Firefox for that too? Just quite curious!

Cheers.

Opera has now created a p2p browser.

But who knows if people will start using opera, I know of some people that do and most of them are developers and they pretty much only use it for testing to see if their programs will be compatible with different browsers.

You will find that a lot of people will just install the browser to enter the competition.

I personally use all three browsers, I use IE as my default browser for email and links, firefox for my daily sites preloaded on the tabs and management of users and google I like cause of its engine for blocking popups and separate threaded tabs, use it as well for preloaded tabs for forums and news sites to keep myself updated.