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."

Comments

Yeah, what is its share, anyway?

[thepotoo]

This is something I've been wondering for a long time. I heard that on slashdot, Firefox is running at about 90% (IIRC, it was a user comment, so may not be accurate), but then we get these 11% figures. Everyone I know uses Firefox. People at every local buisness I've been to use it.
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.

Wow, 4.9%

[cockroach2]

> 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.

I'm progressively switching to konqueror ...

[lord_rob the only on]

... 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

The fact that all the measurements were...

[Caspian]

The fact that all the measurements were taken on a Sunday...

...ALSO means that a significant percentage of the churchgoing population (who, in turn, are a significant percentage of the population at large) are not included in the results. Churchgoing folks are generally conservative, and thus more likely to use more typically corporate/conservative software (thus IE).

Probably won't alter the results much, but I'm sure it impacts them some.

60% fewer statisticians proficient in language

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:Firefox User statistics

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Europe?

[Yokaze]

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?

Re:Firefox is unstable.

[jZnat]

Second only to Windows itself I'd presume?