IE is truly awful. I don’t understand how anyone can still be using it. I assume because it is the default on Windows machines and some users just never bother to try other browsers.

Chrome is a great browser and will continue to grow, Safari as well as Apple’s market share increases.

Droid should pick up steam against safari mobile. A whole slew of great droid phones are rolled out, with bigger screens than Iphone4. Other tablets will prob catch up to the ipad as well.

I dumped my iphone and just got a samsung epic touch. The voice to text is unreal quick and accurate. No more typing for texting or email, or web input other than a few corrections. Much bigger screen than iphone, much better for reading on the go. Apple better roll out a bigger thinner iphone5 sooner than later.

Not terribly popular, but Opera is my browser of choice. One of the main reasons is that tabs within a window are implemented as a stack, so switching between tabs with ctrl-tab is just like switching between windows with alt-tab. I only use a mouse when I have to, so this is a big deal for me. If only Firefox and Chrome would do the same! Tabs as a queue just don’t make any sense.
+1 programming to anybody who knows what I’m talking about.

/ snark

I’ve been using Google Chrome a lot more often ever since I got my Sony Google TV. I’m not sure why I bought that Google TV when I would have bene better off buying a plain 46 inch LED and then attaching a hard drive to it. At least that way I could watch Hulu.

I’m one of those dolts who has a smart phone but doesn’t use it for anything other than a phone (I’m not paying for the full package either – long, unnecessary story). I have used my smartphone for getting online through wifi while at coffeeshops, the hospital or such, but found it to be so tedious and annoying that I’m quite unimpressed – and this is an android phone with a decent sized touch screen.

We don’t own a tablet computer and aren’t likely to do so for some time – though if we did it probably would be a non-Apple product (I have a long bias against Apple).

So that leaves our laptop, which is new and has Windows 7. At first I liked the computer, and still do in many respects, but over the summer, within a couple of months of getting it and downloading Firefox, I started having issues with browsing. I still haven’t figured out exactly what it is. I don’t know if it’s something with Flash or something with 7 or something with our 2wire wireless modem from ATT (which does seem to be a piece of junk), but I frequently get internet and/or browser crashes. It’s worse when I use Firefox, but will also happen in IE, though not as often.

I suspect that the problem would occur no matter what browser I’d use, thus I find no reason to try another. I wouldn’t likely use Chrome anyhow, as I’m also in a love/hate relationship with Google. It’s bad enough I use their search engine. I try to use little to nothing else they offer as part of their vast techno-empire (I realize I’m fighting a losing techno battle).

Compound that with a damaged screen I’ve had for two months, and perusing the internet on my laptop is such a joy. /sarc However, if everything were fine, Firefox would be my preferred choice, as it has been for eight years.

But back to your original posting, yes, I think Blackberry is about toast. It’s interesting to see it still used. I know several people who have one.

stats. I’m not surprised Safari is the dominant mobile browser given the iPhone’s popularity.

I don’t know of anyone who still uses IE by choice. Personally I go back and forth between Chrome and Firefox, can’t decide which I prefer. Currently in a Chrome mood though.

1. Chrome
2. Firefox
3. IE

Chrome is just smokin’ fast. I know they’re all a bunch a libs over at Google, but performance trumps politics in this arena. Only reason I bother with IE (and it’s version freakin’ 6!) is because that’s what they run on our clinical workstations at the hospital.

I want back to IE when Netscape sold out to AOL and never bothered to switch. They are all such a big improvement over FTP in DOS, oops me thinks me age is showing…..

this article from ZDNet today that says Firefox usage is tanking:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/is-firefox-toast/1721?tag=content;selector-blogs

Erick’s chart shows Firefox down, but IE worse. Not sure what all the griping about IE is. I’ve used it on and off for years and while I prefer Firefox I have found recent versions of IE to be reasonable stable.

Go figure…