RSSFirefox Continues To Grow in Europe
By Ed Oswald | Published July 19, 2007, 4:11 PM
Firefox continues to grow in Europe, with the browser share now approaching 30 percent. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer has gone below 70 percent.
According to data released Wednesday by XiTi Monitor, 27.8 percent of Web users now surf with Firefox, up nearly 4 percent from March. Slovenia holds the browser's highest market share at 47.9 percent, followed closely by Finland at 45.4 percent.
Lowest among the European countries were the Netherlands at 14.6 percent and Denmark at 15.2 percent. However, even in these two countries, usage grew by about 10 percent since the last study in March.
Internet Explorer is still by far the most popular browser in Europe, but its share of the market has steadily fallen over the past year. In July, 2006, it had about 73.3 percent share, which fell to 66.5 percent in this month's survey.
Rounding out the top five were Opera at 3.5 percent, Safari at 1.7 percent, and Netscape at 0.3 percent. The Camino, Sony PSP, and AvantGo browsers all registered at less than 0.1 percent, XiTi said.
XiTI also gave some idea into worldwide trends in its study of Firefoxes presence. Oceania ranked first with a 28.9 percent share, up 4.1 percent. This was followed by Europe at 27.8 percent, up 3.7 percent; North America at 18.7 percent, up 3.6 percent; and South American at 15.5 percent, also up 3.6 percent.
A recent study from OneStat.com seems to back up these numbers. Worldwide, 84.66 percent were using IE, compared to 12.72 percent for Firefox. In the US, 75.69 percent used IE, compared with 19.65 percent for the alternative browser.
Opera is actually the fastest growing desktop browser (and mobile browser).
http://operawatch.com/ne...s-in-month-of-june.html
I have tried all the major browsers, and Opera is the ONLY one I am fully happy with. Firefox is simply too slow and buggy, IE is too basic, Opera is fast, feature rich, reliable and secure.
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|So any word on IE8? Or do we have to wait for the next version of windows for that one to.
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|Opera worth probably a little bit more (around 4%-5%) because of its impersonification system... But, anyway, every user changing from IE to anything else is a small victory !
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|I've also already progressed to Opera from Firefox, but still, every user changing from IE to Firefox is definitely a good thing.
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|FIREFOX!! BEST of the BEST!!
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|I have been using firefox for years now and I love it. Thanks to the add ons the browser can do whatever I want it to. I can even put it on a thumbdrive and use it where its not available.
IE on the otherhand has been allowed to grow rank and aged. IE7 is closer but still can't compare. The community is what makes firefox so great.
The sad thing is show firefox to the average consumer and they couldn't care less. They don't live in their browser like me and a lot of power user geeks out there. They use whatever is available which is usually IE, it works they are used to it and see no reason to change.
Owell what can you do.
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|"Owell what can you do."
Well you can show them the bill for 'de-spywaring' their machine, then tell them they could have avoided 90% of the spyware with Firefox.
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