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Internet Explorer 6 Still the Popular Browser? Nov 5 + 2 comments

written by: ryan coughlin

A friend who started Cat on The Couch Productions, tweeted me an article titled “Browser Version Market Share” and I found this extremely interesting, check out this clip that was taken from the website. Most of you are going to have the same feeling as me when you see what the first result is. This article was published along with the data presented in October, 2009. I am sure there might be other data that says otherwise, but I believe this is very creditable, this resource came originally from the CNET website.

Browser Version Market Share

Browser Version Market Share

Find Internet Explorer 6 at the top using 23% – was a huge shock to me. Waiting til it dies out and Firefox, Safari, Chrome and others start to take the market share for browsers. Slowly but surely, that number will dwindle as new computers are coming with Internet Explorer 8 preloaded. As for Web Developers, you all know this still means we will be using CSS fixes to fix double float margin and many other issues that we deal with when testing a website on IE6.

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  • Shrewman

    Figures like this is always going to be up for debate. I’ve seen data that has Firefox users up at 47% while IE6 languishes at a mere 11%. Its always going to be different, depending on your audience.
    However 23% for IE6 doesn’t surprise me. If these figures were out in October, Windows 7 certainly wasn’t being publicised enough (if at all depending on which end of the month these figures were from) for a majority of MS users to have switched. Vista has had a bad reputation since it came out – so people have stuck to Windows XP, where IE6 is installed, unless you care about browser preference and know how to switch to a different one, users stay with what they’re given.