By Jo Best, 12 July 2004 16:30
NEWS Recent warnings about the security of Internet Explorer and advice by US authorities to ditch it appear to have been heeded by the browser-using public with Mozilla in particular feeling the benefit of the swap.
Downloads of the Mozilla browser have now risen to 200,000 a day, despite news that it had suffered its own security breach.
Internet analytics company WebSideStory have also been watching the battle of the browsers and found that the amount of PCs accessing the internet using IE has dropped.
Microsoft won't be shedding too many tears its user figures have dropped by a whole one per cent. It still keeping hold of around 94 per cent of the world's browsers, down from last month's 95 per cent; however, the drop is the first of such proportions since WebSideStory began following the progress of the browser in 1999.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said that the company is "aggressively working" on sorting out the security issues with the browser and the Redmond giant doesn't feel giving up on IE "is warranted".
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1. Damian P. Gadal
I switched and am very happy in doing so, if just for stopping the barage of pop-ups...
2. Peter Williams
I switched to Opera many years ago and never looked back: no browser hijacks or trojans for me!
3. anonymous
I switched to Mozilla about a year ago and have never looked back. The configuration of Mozilla is far more intuitive than IE, plus the tabbed browsing and management of cookies is great.
The only drawback is the odd site that is does not support Mozilla.
4. anonymous
Made the switch more then a year ago. Netscape just wasn't working out, and I really didn't want you have to rely on IE.
Love it, it is rock solid and it lets (easily) set things the way I want them to be.
I have to use IE at work, so I have a good means for comparsion. I have not likes a browser this well sinse Netspcape 3.0 Gold.