Firefox romps along in Europe
p2pnet.net news:- Mozilla’s Firefox is roaring along in Europe, inexorably pressuring the formerly dominant Microsoft Internet Explorer.
“Firefox cannot be stopped” with a use rate of close to 25%, says French monitoring service XiTi.
And in Slovenia and Finland, it’s 44.5% and 41.3% respectively, says XiTi.
Croatia, Germany and Slovakia exceed 35%.
In Oceania, Firefox achieved a use rate of 24.8% for the week of March 5 to 11, 2007, and gained ground on the other continents (North America, Africa and South America).
How are things with Firefox 2?
It’s still tight, says XiTi, stating, “Internet Explorer 7 leads in 16 European Countries versus 14 for Firefox 2.”
It goes on:
Over the week from March 5 to 11, 2007, the share of Firefox 2 visits (of all visits, all browsers combined) was higher than that of Internet Explorer 7 in 14 of the 30 European countries studied, i.e. approximately half, as set out below.
Firefox 2 was used the most in Finland, proportionally to visits with another browser in the same country: 27% of the visits generated in the country, all browsers combined. While during the same week, Slovenia ranked No. 1 in the use of Firefox, all versions combined, with 44.5% (see our “Close to 25% of Use Rate in Europe for Firefox ” study). Slovenia (26.8%), Germany (25.9%), Croatia (23.4%) and Poland (22.1%) followed Finland.
With regard to Internet Explorer 7, France had the highest use rate in Europe at 33.2%. The UK ranked second with 32.3%, then Switzerland (31.5%), Ireland (29.7%) and the Netherlands (29.5%).
Way to go Mozilla!
Also See:
XiTi – Close to 25% of Use Rate in Europe for Firefox, April 17, 2007
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April 17th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
April 17th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
opera>firefox
April 17th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
as long as you don’t use M$ IE, any other browser is good
April 17th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Everyone has their favorite stuff. However the article isn’t about Opera.
During the late 80’s M$ was running the browser wars. Doing the best it could to destroy the competition. It finally became evident that M$ had buried the competition. After that almost no development in advancing the security and features of IE occurred. IE stagnated while the spam and malware industry had a field day. Those pest industries are still having a field day with IE but it’s gotten better. FF and other browsers continued to improve as they went.
In typical fashion M$ came out with IE7 finally. Their main reason for the tabbed browsing feature was it was a highly desirable feature that people were demanding and only finding in other browsers. M$ is being forced back into attempting to improve IE because of the competition. The IE browser languished without much in the line of improvements for 15-20 years.
The M$ monoculture is wearing thin at a lot of places. Between cost to relicense and the lack of basic security in the default setup, people are getting fed up with the constant hassels; so are businesses and corporations and governments. You are hearing more of this every day it seems. The M$ black suits are kept busy trying to stem the tide.
We haven’t seen the end of this revolt; it’s just starting.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Alright the you say :-
France is using 33.2% but graphic says 22.3%.
UK is using 32.3% but the graphic says 18%.
Switzerland is using 31.5% but the graphic says 21.4%.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Alright the you say :-
France is using 33.2% but graphic says 22.3%.
UK is using 32.3% but the graphic says 18%.
Switzerland is using 31.5% but the graphic says 21.4%.