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Firefox market share rises
Author: Gareth HalfacreePublished: 30th January 2008
Firefox says: "Today Europe, tomorrow the world!"
In the latest results of the company's regular survey into Internet habits worldwide, XiTi Monitor has reckoned Firefox's market share in Europe to be around the 28 percent mark, up from 20 percent just two years ago.
According to the survey, Firefox seems to be most popular in Finland with almost 46 percent of all web browsing done via the burny vulpine. Slovenia and Poland are also fans of the open-source project, with market shares of 44.6 and 42.4 percent respectively.
We here in the UK are currently letting the side down, with just 17.2 percent of us choosing to use Firefox. Our neighbours in Ireland are doing quite a bit better, at 29.6 percent market share. In fact, the only European countries who use Firefox less than us are Ukraine and the Netherlands.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer needn't worry, though: according to the survey the browser, which ships by default with all Microsoft operating systems, leads the way at an impressive 66.1 percent market share throughout Europe. Whether this shows a fondness for the browser or just apathy on the part of PC owners isn't immediately obvious.
Other browsers also made a brave showing, with Opera accounting for 3.3 percent of European browsing. Apple's Safari trails with 2 percent, and poor old Netscape – remember that? - is still battling ever onward with a frankly pitiful half a percent. All together now: aww.
What browser do you favour, and does your choice vary by device? Are you loyal to a single brand, or is it a question of 'the right tool for the job'? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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Anyone knows when it's out of beta stages?
I'm now a firefox lover.
They really need to just get a standards guru in at Microsoft who looks like a complete brute so people will take attention when he shouts "No. ****ing. SPECIAL EFFECTS".
I did run into a site the other day that won't work with the most current version of opera, only version 6 or earlier :|
Adblocker, Fasterfox are good :) Also no script although its too aggressive.
But I *like* the word 'burny'. Almost as much as 'burnination', which I'm still hoping will get included in the next revision of the OED.
Plus, why does 'flammable' mean the same as 'inflammable'? I mean, that's an accident waiting to happen.
its the fastest & the Strongest
Burny is good :) inflammable actually means flammable according to the Oxford paperback dictionary, thesaurus and wordpower guide. There is even a little box telling you not to get confused! That is probably about the 5th time I have used that dictionary since school gave it to me 4.5 years ago. I have to say, until I looked it up I thought inflammable was "not flammable"
Anyway, nice to see FF doing well, I couldn't do with out it, with all me extensions and bookmarklets (handy for getting round web filters;))
What I'd like to see is Opera with the user friendliness of FF.
using opera at home, its like going from the stoneage to the future every time i get home;)
I'd say it was the other way round... My mum, brother and sister use opera because they like that quick dial thing and widgets. I use Firefox because of the addons. Web developing stuff mainly. Which no other browser really offers.
Tried Opera many several times and it just doesn't feel right for me, don't know why but it just doesn't.