Say what you want but when forced to use Internet Explorer it tends to hurt those of us who actually enjoy surfing the web quickly. Though Windows made a nice attempt at making IE look promising, many of us on Window machines can’t seem to get it working in our favor so we turn to Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox without batting an eyelash. …

When you start to remember the dawn of things, you’re getting old. I remember the dawn of Internet Explorer and, if you’re over 25, you probably do, too. Since August 16th, 1995, IE has touched the hearts and minds of heroic internet spelunkers everywhere (sometimes, in the worst way – we’re lookin’ at you, IE6), and to this day,  the browser still holds down a 60% market share to Firefox’s measly 23% (and Chrome’s 7%, if you’re wondering). But it wasn’t always that way. Initially a mod of Spyglass Mosaic (which I seem to also recall using in the Long Long Ago, when people used terms like ‘surfing the…

Microsoft once dominated the world of internet browsing, but yesterday their market share dropped to below 60% for the first time. Internet Explorer became king of the browsers back in 1996 when Microsoft began bundling IE 2 with Windows 95, cutting off Netscape’s route to a viable market. Ironically, Internet Explorer began life beating out a technically superior product, and now it is ending it’s life being beaten out by a number of technically superior products. Firefox, the free browser from the Mozilla Foundation, has developed a reputation for being faster, more secure and more recently,…