Anyone still using Internet Explorer 6?

[sil3nt]

Love how people are paranoid about google chrome.

Chrome is simple and fast. Not bloated with useless features. Even has an ad block that works now.

[pete376403]

IE9 beta seems to work ok.

[warewolf]

I'm a Microsoft-biased tech, so I tend to use IE8 professionally. Personally I use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox 4 beta, MS IE 9 beta (now RC1), and Opera Mini on the BlackBerry. All three of those PC products are now homogenising, so it matters less which one you choose, based on features. Firefox introduced tabs - now they all have it. Chrome used to be noticeably faster, but feature-poor and failed to render lots of pages at first release eg vBulletin (KB's software) - now the others are just as fast and IE9 has more rendering issues than earlier versions used to. IE used to seriously lag the others for features - now it's pretty much on par. The UI look'n'feel is a lot the same, especially the header area.

What is important, is bookmark sync across browsers and machines. I use Xmarks so it doesn't matter which browser I fire up on which machine, all my stuff is right there.

From my web programming & analysis role I can tell you some massive percentage of IE users are still on IE6, maybe one- to two-thirds can't recall exactly, which means a big slice of all users since it is by far the dominant browser, despite all the anti-microsoft religious zealots. Don't presume that everyone is using a PC that can be upgraded. Lots of embedded browsers are IE6 and won't be brought forward (heck there's still significant amounts of IE3 out there, but it is dropping off). And IE9 can't be installed on WinXP, so IE8 market share will stick for a long time in tandem with XP.

Note that IE6 is relatively buggy & insecure, which is partly why MS don't want to support it anymore. It's also 3 generations old now. So I don't recommend it... just sayin' it's out there and it's not going to go away anytime soon.

[EJK]

The recent "Internet Explorer users vulnerable to hack" news made me stay far away from IE.

I'm enjoying Chrome.

[Gremlin]

Not having Chrome installed on this PC, I can't remember, but I remember dealing with a client PC, and finding Chrome was a resource hog, or far too large for a browser... something like that?

Can't remember specifically, but enough to make me steer well clear. IE still has to be used for stuff like Outlook Web Access, Coral Tab doesn't work last time I checked, IE Tab is fantastic, and no longer supported (so I'm still running on Firefox 3.5).

[Scuba_Steve]

for those "security conscious" out there initial results from pwn2own are in

Safari and IE8 get shamed at Pwn2Own, Chrome still safe... for now

or the "full story" here

[oneofsix]

for those "security conscious" out there initial results from pwn2own are in

Safari and IE8 get shamed at Pwn2Own, Chrome still safe... for now

or the "full story" here

Guess that makes one security pro WRONG

Microsoft has done a great job of improving the security of Internet Explorer over the last few years. I would not be surprised if IE emerged as the winner of the upcoming Pwn3Own contest

Come on it was always going to be the prime target.
Bit unfair as Chrome hasn't been attacked ... yet. So you can't say it 'safe', you can imply it though as Google were offering 20k if someone could crack it on the first day. Contra to that is the fact that the two taken down so far are the ones that come with the two most popular OS's, Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX so they were going to be the headliners to take out.
No mention of Firefox?