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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. It's about Freedom. by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's its problem? I'm not sure, let's see!
    Does it not browse the web? Yes, but so does Dillo.
    Is it insecure? Yes. With special mechanisms like BHO and sabotaged java engine it's unsafe at any site.
    Is it unstable? Yes, using it means you get to wipe and reload your computer once a month.
    Is it unpleasant to use? Oh God, yes. Even when you don't consider the obtrusive OS it requires, the lack of features is glaring.
    Does it lack features? Try Firefox or Konqueror for a while.
    Isn't it expandable or flexible enough? No, only M$ has the source.
    Is it poorly programmed? I think the above answers this question.

    Why are you so f*****g picky?

    I'm not. Why are you so fucking stupid?

    The most annoying thing about IE is that it's tied to a DRM'd asspain. It will auto install all sorts of malware along with "security" applications from Sony and others. The impossible and stupid goal of these programs is to keep you from making copies. IE is the browser of slaves.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  2. Re:Great by vitalyb · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here is one:
    http://goatse.ch/ascii.html

  3. damn MSDN still insists on IE+ActiveX by r00t · · Score: 1, Troll

    WTF? When are they going to support Firefox, Opera, and Safari?

    The ActiveX, required for all downloads (to "optimize" downloads), is particularly evil. That only runs on Windows. When are they going to switch to something sane, like pure Java?

    Really, they ought to just throw everything on an FTP site. They could use Bittorrent for the big ISO images. It works for Fedora.

  4. France Surrenders? by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 0, Troll

    A preview of things to come no doubt.

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    The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.