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

    1. Hitler started WWII
    2. It i not about the number of victims, or the existence of camps. The reason why any respectable historian (at least in Europe, dunno about the US) considers the Holocaust as a singular event is that the Nazis were the only terror regime that built factories solely for the extinguishing of certain people. It represents the point in history where the promises of enlightenment were shattered.

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    "When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
  2. OT, but still... by Conanymous+Award · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In TFA there was a Flash ad about biblical prophesies concerning the Middle East. What the heck? "YOU need to understand what is prophesied yet to happen in the MIDDLE EAST." Yeah, right. And this is related to IT in ..what way?

  3. Re:Hoo-ray by Skinny+Rav · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I hate to quote such big blocks of text, but this is sooo wrong:

    There's a reason why the Holocaust garners more attention than Stalin's purges or the vast number of deaths attributed to Mao's Great Leap Forward, and that is because the Holocaust wasn't merely a mass-murder, but an institutionalized bureaucratic machine. This wasn't some mad man forcing his subservient lieutenants to shoot Polish officers, but rather an entire government apparatus, with civil servants, budgets and records, all dedicated towards the murder of every Jew within the Nazi's grasp. No one is defending Stalin, whose own attrocities have come to light in very great clarity since the end of the Cold War. But Stalin was your typical monomaniacal paranoid tyrant (or you might say the very pinnacle of monomaniacal paranoid tyrants), the sort of prototypical Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe and Saddam Hussein. Hitler and his cohorts were not ordering the murdering millions of Jews to force subservience out of conquered populations, or to destroy political rivalries.


    I cannot say much about China, but Stalin's crimes are furthest from 'one mad man forcing his subservient lieutenants to shoot Polish officers'. Communism in Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, and probably in China, North Korea, Cuba, as you wrote it 'wasn't merely a mass-murder, but an institutionalized bureaucratic machine'. Read about yearly commitments of convinced and executed 'enemies of the Proletaryat' - yes, administrative units in Soviet Union had to 'provide' each year a fixed number of kulaks, members of 'bourgeoisie' etc.

    Read about the whole bureaucracy of Gulag, of Cheka and later NKVD. The only difference between nazis and commies was that Nazis wanted to kill nations (especially two of them: Jews and Gypsies, but also Poles and Russians) while Communists wanted to kill classes. Are you a priest? Bullet in your head. An entrepreneur? Against the wall! A former-regime politician, police or army officer? Dead. A farmer having enough land to survive of it in free-market? Shot or sent to gulag.

    How is it any better than Holocaust? The only real difference is PR. Compare Hitler's slogans: Lebensraum, final solution of Jewish problem etc. with communists' variations 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'. The typical comment on communists' atrocities is: yeah, it went wrong but the goal was noble.

    Yeah, right.

    It is not about a bunch of Polish officers killed in Katyn and elsewhere. It is about millions of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Estonian etc. farmers, shoppers, teachers etc. whose only guilt was that they could live a decent live before revolution and (abomination!) they had soft hands or wore glasses!

    Cheers

    Raf