Internet Explorer is losing market share, this is unfortunate especially now that Internet Explorer 9 has come out and people don't even bother to try it because of prejudice.
Internet Explorer 9 is better than all of the other browsers for the following reasons:
1. 64-bit support - Internet Explorer is the ONLY browser to have a 64 bit version. New PC's are usually installed with x64 version of Windows 7, Windows Vista also has 64 version. Now that Adobe Flash has a 64 beta version you can use Internet Explorer 9 64-bit, you will find it is faster than the 32-bit version.
2. Windows Update - With Internet Explorer you get the support of Windows Update, this means you don't need any extra update software running in the background to update your other browser, for example Google Chrome installs GoogleUpdate.exe which ALWAYS runs in the background, this means extra bandwidth and extra memory being used. I prefer to have as least services and software running on my computer.
3. Protected Mode - Internet Explorer in Vista and 7 can run in Protected Mode, which means the browser session will have restricted permissions while other browser might run in Administrator mode, if the browser has administrator permissions it will also have these permissions when a malicious website tries to steal data from you, by having the browser run in restricted permissions you are more protected when a website is trying to write or read certain data.
4. Stock Browser - If you already use Windows, a product of Microsoft, then use the browser that is made by the same company, a browser is just a software to view pages on the Internet, it's not a big of a deal what browser you use. Personally I prefer not to have multiple software of the same application on my computer.
5. Internet Explorer 9 is an excellent browser, GPU accelerated, ActiveX filtering (to block Flash on sites), Tracking Protection (to block ads), Easy to use Zoom (to quickly increase size of pages with small text), You can quickly translate whole pages or selected text, good integration with Windows accessibility, Compatiblity View (to support old sites) and more.
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There's something called sandboxing in Chrome and Firefox, which is similar to IE's protected mode except it adds 3 ft-thick reinforced concrete walls topped with high-voltage electrical barbed wire.
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