http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox40_browser_market_firefox_growing.html
Read it and cry, dumb Firefox users.
Firefox is so secure, it blocks even the smallest secure feature of a site!
Therefore: Firefox = CRAP!
IE is much better! It's middle safe, but can view everything.
wow... i am shocked you don't even realize that ie comes with windows...
everyone got windows...everyone got i.e, as simple as that
as sad as it seems a huge part of the internet users are people who don't understand what's the diffrense between firefox and ie so "bah ie is already installed, why would i dl another browser?!"
or maybe they aren't even aware of firefox being out there...
or maybe they are over 30 and are considered "too old to know what's best for them"
or too young to go anywhere but porn sites...
and so on
if they asked around the people who know what firefox is and what i.e is then it will have like 60% for ff and 40% for ie or something around that, likely to have more %s to ff
as for the blocking, blocking viruses and pop ups = good
letting them go = not good
when it comes to blocking stuff you don't want to be blocked, yeah that sort of thing happen but only in websites that are designed to support only ie and are careless about ff, and if you want pop ups (cus sometimes it's a registering pop up and so on) you can always use the "allow pop ups from this site" thingy
but yeah, sadly ie is still needed but i rarely ever use it and i hope it will change asap