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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."
Yeah, but Europe is leading with a usage 20.11%
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I wonder why the poster didn't link to the original study:
http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement13.as
They also mention that they made the measurement on a monday too without a notable difference.
Percentages all over Europe (in french, but the pretty pictures speak for themselves).
Not in itself all that meaningful, perhaps (other than that the average has now reached over 20% for Europe worldwide), but when you see the changes through previous editions:
...you get a pretty decent idea of the growth. (Anyone want to turn that into an animated gif?)
For the record, here's their map of the world, showing ~15.88% in the USA, and 18.60% in Australia. And finally, the difference between percentages during the weekend and during the week appears to be 0.05% (if I interpret that graph correctly)
w3schools is most definitly not pro microsoft. Wherever did you get a silly idea like that? It'd make more sense for them to be pro firefox anyway, hs just look at the css documentation on the site - most of the cool stuff is supported by firefox but not ie of any version.
Nice flaming, but I just did an impromptu experiment, just to be fair.
FF 1.5, Opera 8.5, all extensions off.
Initially, Firefox 21MB RAM and Opera was 17MB RAM, both opening to a tab with Google.
I opened multiple tabs in each, same websites, alternating. Some flash (miniclip) some java (gmail) and some plain ol HTML. Throughout, memory usage was no more than 5MB apart, although I did notice Firefox using more CPU, most likely because I've increased maximum connections.
As for the load times, side by side they're nearly identical, each pulling ahead in a few instances.
Viral marketing probably does play its part, but I doubt that Firefox is "crap" and Opera is "much better."
The reason so many companies use Internet Explorer is because Microsoft makes deals with them that forbid the use of any third-party software on the companies' networks. This was the case at my former company.
Technoli
You must not be a developer. IE is incredibly limiting in what you can do with your site designs and is annoyingly poorly standardized. Not only does it not follow a real standard it doesn't set it's own standard either as major changes happen between different versions of IE and are never fully documented. The IE standard is mostly whatever people can figure out by fighting to make things work in IE. So long as you're using plain HTML and don't mind rather ugly pages it's not a big deal but if you want nice looking pages and advanced features Firefox and Safari are the only contenders.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
I'm, in particular, thinking of the public sector here (libraries, schools, universities, colleges, council and government offices) where MSIE is nearly always the only browser and the idea that one could do anything on the Internet not using MSIE and OE alone can be met with shock (even by the IT folks).
For instance my local library say they have a policy of not installing any software not from Microsoft for security reasons, and my local FE & HE college say the same. The director of IT at the college (where I'm glad to say I no longer go but I know people who still do and it hasn't changed) tells students who ask to use Firefox that it, I quote, "is a hacking [sic] tool like `Kuhzuh' [sic]" and makes it clear that running it off a USB dongle will get your account removed. From my experience and that of friends, universities tend to be more sympathetic to user choice but may be slow in getting around to actually installing Firefox across their networks (as in they've been meaning to install it since before 1.0 but haven't got around to it yet).
Although it is probably partly home users (esp. who use the WWW infrequently), most even totally computer-illiterate people who use the Internet any significant amount who I know seem to have converted on their own machines, so I see that is a much less significant problem.
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The 1.5 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are self-updating. It seems to work pretty well so far. We'll see if there are issues the auto updates can't handle. Probably some bugs since it's a new feature but it's a really good idea I think. The apps and any installed extensions will be updated as needed unless you turn updates off.
I still think IE should just repackage Firefox as IE7. Easier, totally legal, and they can give users their expected look and feel with improved security, features, and standards support of FF. Seems a good idea to me at least.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.