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Close to 25% of Use Rate in Europe for Firefox


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He He He. Did you notice that Australia had the Highest regional figure though.

Congrats to Finland, Germany and the other deep users.

I think a lot of this has to do with our biggest ISP called Bigpond by Telstra. Since Firefox first came out Bigpond has made Firefox part of its free to download (It is not counted in ones download limits) and Firefox updates appear within a few short hours on its site. I am not certain whether the other ISPs do the same but since Bigpond is probably larger than the others combined then I think Bigpond can take some credit here.

Great to see ifirefox doing so well internationally.

I wonder how long it will be before it will be 50% ??.

 

Cheers. John.

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I'm with Internode, they keep up to date with Firefox stuff, and have heaps of Linux stuff as well, all free to download.

(They even had Debian 4.0 available to download before I could get it off of other non-official mirrors :P )

 

Firefox is a very nice browser, and deserves all the market share it gets, although it's got a tough fight on it's hands, not that IE is better or anything, just that it's default on just about every machine that gets sold, and some people don't even know there are alternatives, let alone why they perhaps should use one.

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To be honest, I don't believe it.

Firefox has got more popular, but not THAT popular- the actual usage percentage should be about half.

For one thing, both Opera and Konqi are better browsers overall. Firefox was only superior to Internet Sexploiter, and that superiority obtained vast proprtions since the introduction of IE7 joke of a browser.

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To be honest, I don't believe it.

Firefox has got more popular, but not THAT popular- the actual usage percentage should be about half.

For one thing, both Opera and Konqi are better browsers overall. Firefox was only superior to Internet Sexploiter, and that superiority obtained vast proprtions since the introduction of IE7 joke of a browser.

 

Well, as for our site, a pretty big site (over 350 000 unique visitors/month) in Belgium attracting all kinds of people:

 

Firefox was 14,1% over the last 2 weeks. IE7 adoption skyrocketed with the automatic updates, but after that, plummeted (Edit: I meant, stayed more or less constant). IE6 has 53,6% and IE 7 26,8%

 

If you take into account that for more specialised sites (e.g. this one) people are more likely to use another browser, I find the 18% not that hard to believe. Considering the kind of crowd our site attracts, I'd say it's certainly higher than 14%.

 

Of course for us it was the Easter holiday, in which many people use the browser they like instead of the one dictated to them by their employer (usually IE).

 

Also, more people used Safari (1,7%) on a Mac (2,3%). There was quite an increase in the usage of Mac OS in the last year. This is not from statistics, but I believe that especially the Macbooks & MP-Pro's have a lot to do with this, since I've been seeing a lot of those lately.

 

Just my 2 cents.

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