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

damn MSDN still insists on IE+ActiveX

[r00t]

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.