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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firefox getting bloated

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i was one of the first people in my university to use firefox a few years ago, since then i seen a steady rise of people using it but since last march the trend reversed, for example myself went back to IE7 because the fonts look alot nicer on my laptop and memory usage is very important for me, 4 tabs open in IE7 and firefox + both minimised > ie7 using 4MB! firefox is using 60MB! wtf? and dont get me started on the google toolbar.. i see people going back to IE7 now or opera anyways since this is /. i prob will be modded down, but oh well, this is the truth and i hope mozilla do something about performance (and no rooting around configuration options is not cool) as i like firefox and use it for development and testing