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Firefox's Market Share Hits 28% in Europe

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everything-is-upside-down-in-the-old-country dept.

Mitchell's Boy Toy writes "Firefox's market share has hit 28.0% in Europe as of December 2007, according to a French web metrics firm. That's a 20.7% increase from the beginning of 2007. 'Finland currently has the highest Firefox market share in Europe with 45.4 percent, followed by Slovenia with 44.6 percent and Poland with 42.4 percent.' IE share fell to just 66.1% in December, a 0.9 point loss in just a month. It should also be noted that Firefox's success could spell trouble for Opera's antitrust complaint: 'Firefox's continued success in Europe may undermine some of the arguments made by Norwegian browser maker Opera in an antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft in December of last year. Opera accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant position in the web browser market by tying Internet Explorer to Windows.'"

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  1. Re:Incorrect summary by jrumney · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its a 20% increase. 28 - 23.2 / 23.2 is approximately 0.2 (20%).

  2. Opera is selling a product? by hkmwbz · · Score: 2, Informative

    I really don't feel bad for Opera. I mean, they're in a market selling a product where alternatives exist for free - and really good alternatives.
    Huh? Opera is a free download for PCs. As for mobile, Firefox isn't even able to compete there (and Opera Mini is free).
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  3. NOTE: Here is the actual report by SplatMan_DK · · Score: 4, Informative

    I tried to submit this story to Slashdot some 6-7 hours ago, when it was still not mentioned. So I happen to have the link to the original report :-)

    Relaunch of Mozilla Firefox's visit share in the European countries at the end of 2007

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  4. Re:Opera by edxwelch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe you should try actually reading Operas complaint:
    "...First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop. Second, it asks the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities. The complaint calls on Microsoft to adhere to its own public pronouncements to support these standards, instead of stifling them with its notorious "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" strategy. Microsoft's unilateral control over standards in some markets creates a de facto standard that is more costly to support, harder to maintain, and technologically inferior and that can even expose users to security risks."

  5. Re:firefox globally around 15% by Ornedan · · Score: 2, Informative

    The very high Finnish share is probably explained by the government IT security office making a public recommendation that people switch away from IE a while ago when there was yet another major exploit for it going around. IIRC, Firefox was explicitly mentioned as a good alternative to migrate to.

  6. Accents by marcosdumay · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know if you are serious about that, but the GP's accents aren't wuite right.

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