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."

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Pound it into our heads why don't ya?

[garcia]

Yeah, we know. From that blurb:

"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."

From the current blurb:

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."

I realize we have the Firehose now but are people who read Slashdot daily using it properly? We don't need two stories in a short time frame (4 days) about the same topic.

Lose vs Loose

[athloi]

loose ground

This is a hard one for non-native English speakers, because "lose" is pronounced so bizarrely it sounds like it needs two Os. However, "loose" is how we describe poor security, and "lose" is what happens when I try to play one of these newfangled video games. FYI, FWIW.

Re:Any more data?

[Eightyford]

Is there any more data on how browser usage breaks down by country worldwide, or by other demographics?

Yep!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_br owsers

Another poor dupe

[CajunArson]

1. This story is a dupe
2. Yay firefox... but honestly is it all that important? How about discussing ways we can actually get firefox to perform better? Now that's a conversation actually worth having, but it might involve thinking instead of rabid fanboyism & MS hatred, so don't expect to see it on Slashdot.
3. For the last freakin' time: Your mom is loose, you are just a loser can you finally get it right!!??!?!?!!

Re:firefox getting bloated

[morgan_greywolf]

, 4 tabs open in IE7 and firefox + both minimised > ie7 using 4MB! firefox is using 60MB! wtf?

The about:config setting you're looking for is config.trim_on_minimize. Set this true.

Re:Note to editors

[LighterShadeOfBlack]

You're correct but so are they. IE is only at 66.5%, remember there are other browsers besides IE and Firefox!

BBspot

[MrMonty]

What, no link to the pertinent article on BBspot?

Re:loose != lose

[Aladrin]

Yeah, too bad that's not exactly right.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/loose

A small sample:

verb (used with object)
20. to let loose; free from bonds or restraint.
21. to release, as from constraint, obligation, or penalty.

Over-generalising isn't going to help them remember. It'll only confuse them more when they encounter a less common usage, and think they've got it backwards again.

Re:firefox getting bloated

[morgan_greywolf]

I think this raises a point, though, in relation to browser share. The majority of users do not want to have to tweak anything. If they need to change Firefox configs in order to match performance under IE7, most would instead go back to IE7.[1]

As far as that goes, any software developer knows that when it comes to performance, you can maximize for size or speed, but not both. In this case, FF chose to optimize for speed, rather than size, but left a config option for those who would rather they had taken the opposite stance. I see no problem with this, given that memory is cheap (and getting cheaper). Anyone worried about a browser taking 60MB of RAM doesn't have enough memory; however, if they can't afford more memory for whatever reason, they still can decide to reduce FF's minimized size in memory.

Re:Time to switch browser, for security purposes

[TihSon]

Konqueror.

Re:How is this not a dupe?

[cayenne8]

TFA blurb: "Firefox doesn't loose ground in any of the countries."

Good Lord people...at least if you post it front page get it right!!!

It is lose not loose....

My web stats for June

[Intron]

No. Hits 304's KBytes sent Browser
1 19280 42.65% 1051 13.35% 322071 Mozilla/5.*
2 15609 34.53% 4831 61.37% 172549 MSIE 6.*
3 6316 13.97% 1734 22.03% 61428 MSIE 7.*
4 930 2.06% 0 0.00% 47572 msnbot/1.*
5 431 0.95% 117 1.49% 1689 Mozilla/4.*
6 402 0.89% 0 0.00% 143 Baiduspider
7 326 0.72% 0 0.00% 2159 libwww-perl/5.*
8 313 0.69% 70 0.89% 1635 Opera/9.*
9 226 0.50% 22 0.28% 1581 MSIE 5.*
10 134 0.30% 0 0.00% 1842 Speedy Spider

This is bad news. Once MSIE drops below 50%, all of the malware will be targeting Firefox.

Re:Here's Looking to IE8

[echnaton192]

What is the big deal? Firefox brings its own settings and doesn't effect your system as every file is put to the firefox-directory or its profile. Simply try it. It won't bite :)

And of course you could keep MSIE as your main browser. It's not as if you were changing your mailclient or something. Like you could use notepad AND word ;)

MSIE sucks, Firefox is nice, it's as simple as that.

Try out the free add ons.

http://www.mozilla.com/