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Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe

Posted by kdawson on from the edge-of-the-wedge dept.

PARENA writes "French researcher Xiti claims that Mozilla Firefox keeps winning terrain in Europe. 24.1% of Internet users in Europe use Firefox. Slovenia (44.5%), Finland (41.3%), Croatia (36.5%), and Germany (36.2%) lead the way, followed by a group of mostly Eastern European countries. Remarkably, The Netherlands is only at 13.3%, right before Andorra. Oceania maintains a slight lead over Europe, at 24.8%; the rest of the world trails at 11.9% to 15.1%."

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  1. I must be ignorant by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whats Oceania? I thought it was a made-up supernation from Orwell's 1984.

    Firefox is fast becoming newspeak for "web browser".

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    1. Re:I must be ignorant by IthnkImParanoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's called Australia, after the only nation of any importance on it. Sort of like "America", but slightly less kick-ass.

      :p

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  2. Re:Yeah but... by lavid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought we were at war with East Asia....

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  3. Re:Nice indeed, but... by whoisjoe · · Score: 5, Funny

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    I ASSURE YOU THAT THIS INCREASE IS RISK FREE ON ALL SIDES.

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  4. Re:Yeah but... by jfengel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope. Eurasia is the enemy. Eurasia has always been the enemy.

  5. Re:Australia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > But most Americans consider Australia to be its own continent

    That's just demonstrating the ignorance of Americans. Australia shares land borders with several other countries, such as Queensland to the north and Victoria to the south. Calling the whole continent "Australia" while ignoring the contributions of the other countries on the continent, Oceania, just because they're not populated by westernised whites is a combination of political supremism and just plain ignorance.

  6. Re:sounds way of low for home users by ant-1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This tells me nothing until I know the target audience for your site and the number of visitors. Dude, GP poster has an ID lower than 5000 ! He could well have the data compounded from half of internet servers, including yours. So do as every smart slashdotter would do : accept his numbers and nit-pick them a bit and pray he doesn't pull the plug from your petty web server...
  7. Re:sounds way of low for home users by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, GP poster has an ID lower than 5000 ! He could well have the data compounded from half of internet servers, including yours.

    Or he could have been running a Gundam doll fan site for the past five years ("They're not dolls! They're action figures!!!"), thereby solidly representing the browser choices of the still-living-at-home-at-35 demographic.

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  8. Re:What am I forgetting Ending in X. by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny
    Fornication ends in N.

    No, this being Slashdot, it normally ends in a Kleenex.

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