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Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the our-logs-show-nobody-using-ie-anyway dept.

Tookis writes "Mozilla's Firefox web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor. A study of nearly 96,000 websites carried out during the week of July 2 to July 8 found that FF had 27.8% market share across Eastern and Western Europe, IE had 66.5%, with other browsers including Safari and Opera making up the remaining 5.7%. In some key European markets FF has already reached parity and is threatening to overtake IE as the market leading browser."

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  1. Hoo-ray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Junk (I.E.) is being replaced with more junk (Firefox). Yes, it's better junk, but junk none the less.

    1. Re:Hoo-ray by Knuckles · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Thinking that Nazi Germany is better than the Soviet Union? Yay for the school system on your country.

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  2. Re:Browser usage by nbert · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To me, this is evidence of a better educated society in Europe

    Or maybe it's because people in Europe are in general less skilled on the computer / not willing to take risks, so people like me are asked to install a proper set of programs for them.
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  3. Whee! Monopoly Exploit Time by Bob9113 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In some key European markets FF has already reached parity is threatening to overtake IE as the market leading browser.

    Suddenly monopolies don't sound so bad. OK, how do we abuse this new power?

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