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Two continents down, 5 to go: Firefox 3 top browser in Europe
Watch out, Microsoft, Firefox is continuing its quest to dominate all seven continents. While the news last month of Firefox achieving 100% share in Antarctica was more more than a little tongue-in-cheek, the announcement today from StatCounter is more on the serious side.
For the first time ever, Firefox 3 has surpassed Internet Explorer 7's European browser market share. Firefox pulled ahead by just over half a point, registering 35.05% to IE7's 34.54%.
The news is tempered by the Internet Explorer 8 RTM, though it's still a significant milestone for Mozilla. With its recent increase in popularity, Firefox is now just ten percentage points behind all Explorer versions in Europe.
Ten measly points and you're top dog on two continents, Mozilla.
[via Reuters]
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Level 5 said 4:39PM on 3-31-2009
Victory, Schmictory.. I used to be the BIGGEST FF proponent, but I'm rapidly falling for the sexy faster Chrome. FF's still in the lead (functionality) but man Chrome is quick.
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nrdiss82 said 7:24PM on 5-01-2009
I agree. I hope they release a linux version soon.
Steve G said 5:40PM on 3-31-2009
I think the figures depend on the market you are looking at. Non-techie users still seem to be happy with IE. The 50 or so sites i look after are all showing MS browsers shares of over 60%.
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lilduderpimp said 6:07PM on 3-31-2009
Firefox is crap. Plain and simple, its slow and ugly.
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samuel said 10:48PM on 3-31-2009
FireFox is not crap, nothing of the kind. If its "crap" because its slow then its only because your too greedy.
whiskey said 1:06PM on 4-01-2009
I wonder which browser you use...
Say it's either chrome or opera 10, because if it's not then you are really really really all sorts of wrong. Really, even safari would be an almost good answer here.
Goron40 said 9:15PM on 5-31-2009
Nobody measures the browser share like that though. FF will overtake IE when the percent of all FF versions overtake all IE versions. So, IE6, IE7, and IE8.
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