Last time you regularly used Internet Explorer?

[Envy 6,188]

Like 2004 or 2005, maybe? I found FireFox sometime during 2005 and haven't looked back.

[Windseeker 546]

I occasionally use it to download other browsers after a fresh install of Windows XP/Vista/7 on a refurbished Dell system.

IE in general always had these fickle network settings and crap performance that keeps you from ever seeing a non-broken webpage most of the time.

[Hierok 11,832]

In 2008 switched to mozilla firefox and in 2012 to chrome.

[Invincible 2,091]

It's been at least over a decade. Can't remember exactly.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

Back around the time when I joined this forums... then my stepmom showed me Google Chrome, and that's what I've used since.

[Duality 10,740]

Last time I used IE would've been way back when I was a kid who didn't know any better. 

[Guest]

I am still using it tho.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

Back when I had my second laptop about 2 or so years ago. I switched to chrome about a year and a half into having that laptop. 

[Ginger Ale 723]

Ages ago... Cant even remember.

[Jeric 46,857]

Heh. 

Sopranos was new, Family Guy was in it's first run, one of my kids didn't exist, and this was the top song on the charts

 

My apologies, but that drives home my point very well.

[Kaneki 1,073]

When Firefox was still on version 0.8 beta, so.... 2004?

[d^_^b 27]

I used it regularly until 2005/06 as well, when I switched to Firefox. My sister's boyfriend at the time showed it to me and recommended it over IE, and I never looked back. Now, I use Chrome and Maxthon.

Edited August 24, 2017 by d^_^b

[Aurora Wolf 2,354]

I don't think I ever used Internet Explorer for ten whole years.

[Justin_Case001 4,903]

The last time I used Internet Explorer was before the internet was invented.  We made angry posts in message boards by drawing in the dirt with sticks.

[Yoshi89 5,293]

I want to say 2009 when I switched to Firefox and have been using it ever since.

[HeroSparks 232]

I used it when I first got my laptop in 2007 I think, but only for a few months till I downloaded Chrome

[Deleted3133333 3,560]

The year was 2008. 2nd grade. My teacher's classroom was full on Windows XP computers no one bothered to give any TLC to. So, naturally, Internet Explorer was the only browser.

 

The next year I moved to a school that only had Macs, and in middle school I found out about google chrome and Firefox (and convinced the entire school to switch browsers) Haven't used I.E. since.

[MidnightRush 104]

Today! 

Still prefer it as my main browser except for social media.

[Patty Thundersnow 4,179]

Summer of 2012. i got firefox on my original laptop, and then when I got my current laptop, Firefox was my main browser, up until this time last year when i started using Chrome interchangeably with firefox.

[Telferi 6,906]

Last year because a virus. At that time only IE could work XD

[Castle Bleck 19,377]

Summer of 2014 -- because that's when I graduated an online course that relied on Explorer.

[jackfettgames 50]

I have never used Internet Explorer regularly.  I started using the internet with FireFox around 2006.

[Bricks_Ahoy 860]

I remember using Internet Explorer back at 2010 in my school computer. Then, I got Google Chrome. Still using it to this very day. Has anyone ever used Opera? 

[Dowlphin 463]

I occasionally use it because I have set it to accept cookies, so if a website makes trouble and I only need to access it once, or if a website uses Active Sucker Pages, I use IE briefly.

I would never use Chrome. I despise Google too much and it supports the most ruthless and power-hungry conqueror in the browser war. I also find it horribly user-unfriendly, but that sadly might just mean it's the spearhead of a trend that eventually afflicts almost everything. As a power user stupidity in UI design drives me nuts.

I am using Waterfox. (It's 64 bit.) I considered Firefox since it's now also offered in 64 Bit, but Waterfox does some things more respectful to the user (involving the topic of data gathering and such). I recently updated from v40 to 55 because major websites stopped working properly and it took me half a day and some more until I got everything working again as before, and (cynically not surprising) some things work less well than with the old version. Also my ancient Opera 12 (which I used until I begrudingly switched to Waterfox when Opera let itself be assimilated by the devil) would often display websites properly that the much newer Waterfox 40 couldn't.

And now Youtube does the next crazy step with their new UI which is more of the usual disrespectful sheeple-herding madness.

P.S.: Just learned this: Menu Wizard to disable fatal shortcuts and menu options is a MUST for Firefox! Otherwise any time you want to write Q or W and hit CTRL with SHIFT, all text you might have written so far can be lost with the browser closing. The person who came up with these stupid shortcuts should be shot.

The worst is, I was already using Menu Wizard to remove a dangerous menu item and wasn't aware there are still direct-access shortcuts and that those triggered a close, and it happened after I had typed a really long text in a web app with no chance of a session backup or such.

Edited September 6, 2017 by Dowlphin

[RavenholmZombie 1,330]

If using Microsoft Edge counts, then back in November 2016 after I built my PC. I used Edge to download Chrome.

If not, then well, I guess the last time I legit used IE for anything was back when I was in high school using one of their older Windows XP PCs.