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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."
Putting the same story in the related stories box does not un-dupe this news.
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.
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.
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In Europe people are smarter and do things better. Deal with it.
Yep!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_b
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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!!??!?!?!!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Nono, I think they mean to say that Firefox doesn't fight dirty and throw dirt (loose ground) at the opponents.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
If you care that much about 60 megs of ram for an app that you're using, its time to get more ram.
Witness the popularity of Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhoff.
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You're correct but so are they. IE is only at 66.5%, remember there are other browsers besides IE and Firefox!
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Well, it seems that Firefox only has a 28% approval rating. Guess who else only has (at most) a 28% approval rating? GWB!!!
George W Bush = Firefox.
Stay the course, guys. Victory against Microsoft is just around the corner.
IE is, indeed, droppings.