Sean Toohey

There has been a lot of hype in the media this week, stating that use of Internet Exporer use has fallen bellow 50% of market share.  From CNN Money: StatCounter, which tracks Internet data, said that IE's share of the browser market fell to 49.9% in September. More people still use IE than any other single browser, but the combined market share of non-Microsoft browsers now outpaces IE. Not being one to take their word for it (Sorry CNN), I went and checked some of the websites I run, and their roll-up reports in Google Analytics. Based on over 5.1 Million Visits in the past 30 days, these sites (based in Canada) still show IE with more than 57% share, and Firefox in the number two spot at 21%. I'm not stating that IE is not on the decline, but despite the hype, the reality here in Canada still has Microsoft and Internet Explorer leading the pack. ~ BTW, this post is written on a Mac using Chrome ;)

After hearing non-stop chatter about locally developed Flock browser, I decided it was time to give it a try. Flock is a "social web browser" build on the Mozilla platform, developed in Victoria, BC and  I was looking for a way to easily integrate Blogger and Twitter postings. Although I've not yet figured a way to make it work, so far it looks promising. I'm using flock for this blog post and although I like the drag and drop interface, my first attempt at dragging a photo to the blog editor has caused some strange re-sizing  issues. I'll continue to use put Flock through its paces for the next week, and re-post my findings.