In 2009, IE was established, attempting to launch a campaign to kill the browser. I Hate Internet Explorer was launched in December 2007 providing a now-defunct forum for IE critics to vent about the browser. Later that year, Kill Bill's Browser (shown below, left) suggested 13 reasons why users should dump IE, using a color scheme from the 2003 action movie Kill Bill. A second site, I Hate IE was created in January 2005, compiling user-submitted reasons as to why people dislike IE. The first anti-IE website, Stop IE, was launched in August 2004, listing numerous reasons why people should switch their browsers. As of September 2012, 6% of the world was still using Internet Explorer 6, down from 11.3% in 2011. Microsoft finally decided to join the anti-IE6 movement in March 2011, launching an Internet Explorer 6 Countdown to heighten awareness of what countries are still using the ten-year-old browser. The next year, Google announced that its Document application would cease supporting IE6 and the Aten Design Group in Denver, Colorado held a funeral for the browser. Microsoft responded by saying that they could not discontinue support for the browser at that time, reinforcing a "kill date" of April 8th, 2014. Websites including YouTube, Weebly, Digg, Facebook and all joined in the Anti-IE6 campaign by August, when CNN reported on the movement. In July 2009, IE6 No More was created, providing web owners with an HTML code they could insert into their site for a similar pop up message. Microsoft eventually released its successor Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006, though by then, it had already lost much of influence in the overall usage share of web browsers. In the following years, Microsoft's usage share in web browser applications began to drop as alternative options continued to emerge, most notably Apple Safari in 2003 and Google Chrome in 2008. Meanwhile, Microsoft's competitor and the once-dominant brand Netscape Navigator open-sourced their browser code and entrusted it to the newly formed non-profit Mozilla Foundation to create a successor, which launched in November 2004 under the name Mozilla Firefox. Despite its shortcomings, however, IE6 remained the most popular version of its series even after the release of IE7. Between 20, IE6 simultaneously became the most widely used version, as well as the most criticized release for its vulnerability issues and lack of support for modern web standards, as it did not reach a stable release until May 2008. Released on August 27th, 2001, it was the default browser shipped with Windows XP and WIndows Server 2003. Additional revisions of Internet Explorer were unveiled with IE4 and IE5 in 19, the next significant updates arrived in August 2001 with the launch of Internet Explorer 6.
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