Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe

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."

Comments

Great

[niceone]

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?

Re:Great

[muffen]

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 :)

Re:Great

[yohanes]

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.

IE 7

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Where do the stats come from?

[6Yankee]

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

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

Re:Hoo-ray

[Pieroxy]

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

Re:It's about Freedom.

[anethema]

He is talking about Firefox :P

Think that's bad?

[dbolger]

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 :)

Re:Hoo-ray

[Winckle]

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

Re:Hoo-ray

[TheRaven64]

Isn't that what ftp.exe is for?