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Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe
sebFlyte writes "ZDNet is reporting that, according to the most recent set of statistics from Web monitoring firm XiTi, Mozilla's most popular brower is now the browser of choice for one in five of Europe's surfers, at least at home. The fact that all the measurements were taken on a Sunday means that the figure isn't accurate for the whole market, though, since business PCs tend to have lower Firefox usage rates." From the article: "Other Web metrics companies produce more conservative estimates of Firefox' market share. In November, OneStat.com reported that Firefox had achieved a global market share of 11.5 percent, although it found that only 4.9 percent of people were using it in the UK."
Yet another useless statistic.
Clearly, Google is the next Microsoft.
My college requires people install it when they connect to the internet (and most of 'em use it once they've tried it).
So, where are the hordes of IE fanboys trying to kill off Firefox? Anyone have a more accurate number? It's gotta be higher than TFA says.
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That is such FUD! To analyze any two languages, you have to take into account the various situations in which it might be used. Is a hammer better than a wrench? Depends on whether you want to drive a nail or turn a bolt. That being said, Python is better than Ruby in every real world circumstance I have ever seen. I can write programs faster in Python with less code, and they're more secure too. I have never once seen a program written in Ruby that was better/easier to write than in Python. Python has bigger libraries and a better user community than Ruby. Plus there's a larger install base of Python interpreters.
Long story short, if you want to be fair and compare apples to apples, Ruby loses to Python.
> although it found that only 4.9 percent of people were using it in the UK
Fascinating. I never used firefox in the UK and I wouldn't have guessed that 4.9% of firefox' users did.
Sorry.
... since Firefox 1.5. Really, like Linus said, I can't stand Gnome 2.10 integration.
Konqueror is becoming better and better, and is really an alternative to firefox now
Ruby is for Chinamen and Wapanese.
Probably won't alter the results much, but I'm sure it impacts them some.
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
In November, OneStat.com reported that Firefox had achieved a global market share of 11.5 percent, although it found that only 4.9 percent of people were using it in the UK.
A. 4.9 percent of all people use Firefox in the UK?
B. 4.9 percent of all Firefox users use it within the UK?
C. 4.9 percent of all people residing in UK use Firefox?
D. 4.9 percent of all internet users use Firefox in the UK?
E. 4.9 percent of all internet users in the UK use Firefox?
F. 4.9 percent of all Sunday morning internet users in UK use Firefox?
G. All of the above?
H. None of the above?
35% of visitors to your site that use a Mozilla variant use Mozilla 1.8?
You break out Mozilla 1.7.12, so you must really mean Mozilla suite. But 1.7.12 is the latest release. 1.8 hasn't been released. You have a peculiar clintele. 2.4% of your online customers seem to be Mozilla developers. And partial to the Mozilla suite at that.
Mon dieux, how do I convert French percentages into English ones? And all those strange nations. What is this Autriche again, isn't that some Techno group?
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
Second only to Windows itself I'd presume?
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'