Why does anybody care about what web browser that users use? Nothing really has fundamentally changed in web browser world for years.

The whole web standards issue is just an old legacy of MS's strong-arming Netscape into oblivion back during the 90s. They had killed Netscape by using a completely different standards and bundled IE with every copy of Windows for "free". That is source for 95% of current web developer headaches.

MS should just give up and make IE comply with standards used by other web developers. That will remove most of the current problems.

Firefox 3 is the best. Better than Opera 2.5 before Firefox 3 I am using Opera but Firefox is much faster and reliable.

Okay, I can understand Firefox. But Safari? Christ, I'd take IE7 over Safari any day of the week, month, year, ever... ESPECIALLY on a PC...

Krogoth:

I've nuked your post for potty mouth. Another violation will lead to a ban.

Yeah if I were Opera people, I'd be crapping my pants over FF3. It has a pretty decent interface and the memory overhead is much lower.

firefox is soooo much faster and more usable than IE, especially with pipe lining enabled on my high-latency DSL connection.

I wonder how much of those Opera numbers are windows mobile users.

IE is still needed for Windows Update. The only things I use it for are Windows Update, and downloading Firefox for a brand-new computer.

I love Opera. I wish more people would give it a try.

Firefox+40 plug-ins= Opera out of the box.

I think what soured Opera for me was that they were ad-sponsored for a long time. You had to buy it to get rid of the lame ad banner. It was the first browser that wanted me to pay in some way for the "honor" of using it. I've never really taken it seriously as a result, although I have used it on occasion. Its interface has annoyed me in the past, too (although I don't remember why anymore.)

Now, Firefox is absolutely my fav browser simply because of the add-ons that are out there and how it has evolved. Incredible stuff. It just feels like a community effort in many ways.

Safari didn't do anything for me and it tried to push Apple updates on me. So, it got uninstalled pretty quick.

For the record, I do use FF at home. But I use IE 6 at work. My company hasn't upgraded to 7 and probably won't, and I can understand why.

IE 7 has quite possibly the worst interface designed. I don't know what they were thinking, but the new interface does not increase productivity. It's unnecessarily obtuse and difficult to navigate. I can understand a few of the changes, but most of them just reek of "let's move stuff around and call it new". The old interface may have not been all that stunning, but it was straightforward and easy to navigate. FF understood that and stayed with the same basic layout.

Microsoft needs to hurry up with Internet Explorer 8. If it turns out good, I'll ditch my FF3 in favour of the in-house browser.

I've only been using Firefox for about a month now, and I gotta tell you it's neat and all that jazz, but it does a few things that really really irritate me.
I'm also more or less in Threshers boat as far as work is concerned.
Don't suppose there's a x64 version of FF...

Opera's market share is slowly increasing, though, since it had an even-smaller share of 0.69% in April.

Haha, it's almost as if Cyril thinks the stats are accurate enough to bother commenting on a 0.04 percentage point change.

I'm using FF3 and I'm not going back to IE.