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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. That's because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Europeans love foxes. Rawr!

  2. Great by niceone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I'm going to have to find something more obscure to avoid the attentions of the malware makres... what was the name of that other one... Icemeasles?

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    1. Re:Great by muffen · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you want to avoid malware, go for Lynx, I bet you there isn't even one threat that works under Lynx.

      ... the actual webpage might not work either, but that's just a minor detail :)

    2. Re:Great by yohanes · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ah, even lynx can be exploited (for example: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-206-1) to make room for malwares.
      I want to use wget, but it is also has a history of bugs that can be exploited.
      I'll stick with telnet, and parse it with my eyes. Although it is a bit difficult for HTTPS sites.

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  3. IE 7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once you've seen IE 7, you too will want to switch to any other browser.

    1. Re:IE 7 by ethicalBob · · Score: 2, Funny

      "IE 7 made me switch from Firefox back to IE."

      Did IE 7 add a "hold a gun to your head" plugin recently that we don't know about?


      "As an IT professional I have no issues with spyware/viruses regardless of the browser I use."

      Wow... I didn't know that 'IT Professionals' were immune to viruses! Who would have thought that viruses, trojans, etc. were clever enough to check your resume...

      So, you are an 'IT Professional' that proudly proclaims they use Vista... Oh wait - you forgot mention that you were a Micro$oft employee... :-)

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  4. Re:Browser usage by jimbug · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh, you know it's links!

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  5. Re:Where do the stats come from? by 6Yankee · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the largest site i have access to - a medical online shop

    Ah, it's you! Stop sending me email. :P

  6. Re:Hoo-ray by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Funny

    And AT LAST, Internet Explorer is back to where it belongs: A nice tool to download Firefox. ;-)

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  7. Re:It's about Freedom. by anethema · · Score: 4, Funny

    He is talking about Firefox :P

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  8. Re:Wish for US by gratemyl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, and god bless($this, joke) - there you go, laugh()!

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  9. Think that's bad? by dbolger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where I work, one of the systems has us completely locked in to using Netscape 4.0. I can't see any reason for it in terms of what the system does, but it refuses to even give you access with any other browser. Netscape is installed on every PC so they can access this system, and because management hope to "eventually" get rid of the system entirely, they refuse to update it to work on any other browser.

    So, when you are cracking up because of idiot webmasters locking you in to using IE7 to view their sites, just know you don't have the absolute worst of it :)

  10. Re:Hoo-ray by Winckle · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm with you on tool, nice on the other hand... :-)

  11. Re:Browser usage by ehrichweiss · · Score: 2, Funny

    If this isn't a parody then we need to get all the people with IQ >120 together and get them to start making babies like crazy cause "Shelley" goes beyond retarded. I mean she argues that Google/blogger is hosted on M$ servers when it's well known that they are not. Maybe it's a Micro$loth troll site. Who knows...but send the smart hotties my way for "population explosion therapy". Only 3 at a time please.

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  12. Re:Hoo-ray by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't that what ftp.exe is for?

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  13. Re:Browser usage by Main+Gauche · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod parent and grandparent up, but can we also have a breakdown on full-moon weekdays Vs non-full-moon weekday figures? Wiccans may have a tendency to take the day off during full moons, hence have a higher likelihood of using FF during such days. Just don't forget about the Julian calendar...

    (All joking aside, do we really need to verify that a large contingent of Slashdotters don't use IE?)

  14. Re:Hoo-ray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    you must mod this parent up, it has much lulz

  15. Re:Where do the stats come from? by AtrN · · Score: 2, Funny

    All that tells us is something we already know, IE users are sick!

  16. I hate IE 6 by martin_henry · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am forced to use IE6 all day because McAfee deletes firefox as a security threat (fair enough) and my corporate lan won't let me Windows Update.

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