Are you still using Internet Explorer to browse the web? If you are, you are in the majority, but Microsoft's market share is steadily shrinking because people are slowly drifting away from the browser that is bundled with Windows and are choosing an alternative like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Opera. Why?
One reason is the speed difference between IE and Chrome and Safari. If you have IE, go to one of the JavaScript speed tests like SunSpider and run the benchmark. IE8, which is faster than IE7, has a score of 8500ms, but if you try this with Safari you'll get a score of about 775ms. Chrome has a similar score to Safari. They aren't just slightly faster, they are increadibly fast and code that takes Internet Explorer several seconds to execute takes Safari and Chrome milliseconds. Don't take my word for it, run the test yourself.
There are other speed tests, but the results are the same - IE is dog slow. This is one reason why people are switching browsers. Unfortunately, the internet is very congested and the amount of traffic in the pipes and people on popular websites nullifies the effect of the enormous speed advantage of Safari and Chrome. With a dodgy internet connection, ISP throttling and overburdened web surver IE can almost keep up with Safari and Chrome. This means that people stick with IE even though it's so slow - they don't notice because the internet's slow anyway.
Another reason why you should switch from IE to another browser is that sometimes it just doesn't work. seriously, it cannot display some web pages. For example, go and check out Norton Utilitiesat the Symantec website. Internet Explorer 8 makes a complete mess of it and fails to display it. It's perfect in every other web browser. This page isn't a one-off and when you've had a few of these you'll probably think that there's something wrong with your PC, Windows, your internet connection, or the website. It's none of those, it's IE8 that just can't work with the latest web standards.
If you are still using IE, go and get Safari. Chrome is fast, but doesn't have as many features.)
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