Jay Kimble

Just FYI, here's CodeBetter's Breakdown for the month of August so far...

Internet Explorer: 72,914 (64.59%)

Firefox: 35,751 (31.67%)

Opera: 2,140 (1.90%)

Safari: 819 (0.73%)

one of the problems is with end-user perception.  I've been trying to push a smart client version of our application to our sales/marketing guys for the last 3 months and they just won't bite.  I've even talked to a few customers and they say the same thing.  They want zero-deployment.  They want to be able to sit down at a computer and immediately start using our application, regardless that a smart client version could be installed from a hyperlink and regardless that a smart client would have a richer UI.

The web has become ubiquitous and customers expect apps to be accessible from the web.  The perception is that only "monolithic/legacy" apps (accounting, Office, HR, etc) are actually installed (and they say that word with a sour taste in their mouths).

Not sure if you realized this or not, but if you install the MSN Search Toolbar on IE, you can have tabs right in IE6.  You don't even need to have the toolbar visible.

Checkout: toolbar.live.com

I'm with you Jay.  I'm a geek that doesn't see that much difference in my choice of browser. I personally still use IE6 for much of my browsing.  I have used firefox quite extensively and it's fine, but I just don't get all that excited about it.  I have used IE7 beta quite a bit and look forward to the final release, but all in all my choice of browser hasn't mattered too much to me.

I didn't know that Tim... downloading now!

I'll just throw in a vote for Maxthon - it's a wrapper around IE that does tabs and a helluva lot more. Since it uses the IE control to render, it's as compatible as IE. It even works with IE7. Only downside is that it doesn't support most of the IE toolbars (if you want that sort of thing). It does, however, have it's own extension model - so there's plenty of addons to choose from (again, if you're into that).

All I want from a browser is tabs (on the bottom please!), speed, compatiblity, and low memory usage. Maxthon bests Firefox on all of those points.

As someone who's been using a tabbed browser since '98 (way before Mozilla), it's indispensable. If you're like most geeks, you spend 90% of your day in front of a PC, with a browser open most of the time...why not get the best there is?

The fact that Firefox doesn't even allow flash by default makes it a huge step backwards if you ask me. The web is supposed to be getting smarter and richer not dumber. What really (and i mean REALLY) p*sses me off are the sites that refuse to allow you access unless you're running firefox. Given they only have about 10% of the share that makes absolute no sense and is just plain stupid.