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IE Dropping, Now Near 70% In Europe
Kevin Spiritus lets us know that XiTi Monitor, a French Web survey institute, has published its browser barometer for July, and Internet Explorer continues to lose ground. "The ascension of Firefox continues... Nearly 28% average use rate in Europe in the beginning of July 2007, with a progression in the totality of the 32 European countries studied. Firefox doesn't loose ground in any of the countries."
Don't get me wrong, I love FF. This message (and all my previous ones) was written using FF. Still, with this trend I'll have to move away from it. Sadly, unhappily, but necessarily.
The reason is simple: Security. Yes, the security holes of FF aren't as blatant as those in IE (who ins his sane mind ties a browser with complete ActiveX support? I mean, be sensible!), but they exist and behold, they get used now. It's no longer "just a POC", FF exploits are becoming more and more important in malware business, especially since the advent of MPack and similar malware spreading suits.
It's not the best kind of security, trying to be secure from malware by using software that is uninteresting for untargeted malware spraying, because few people use it. But, well, it's one that at least kinda works against the everyday threats.
The question is, where to?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.