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Firefox Army clashes with IE in Central Europe, wins browser share crown

The Firefox army is hundreds of millions of soldiers strong. After successfully taking the southernmost continent on the globe, the Mozilla Militia continues to run full speed ahead across Europe. Today's battlefront: the central region.

As you can see in the header image, Firefox and IE recently crossed paths. The chart shows data gathered from nine countries - Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine - from January 1, 2007 to the present. Internet Explorer continues its downward slide, Firefox has now claimed almost 50% of the browser share in Central Europe.

So go ahead, EU, complain all you want about Microsoft unfairly using their influence to ensure everyone's PC is running IE. It's obviously not hurting Firefox (or Opera, for that matter).

Maybe users really are smart enough to find and install their own browser? Who'da thunk it.

[via Mozilla]

Filed under: Business, Google, Microsoft, Search

Microsoft Search nowhere to be found

Live SearchThe year of 2007 is coming to an end, and so, it seems, is Microsoft's attempt to regain some ground in the hotly contested search market.

According to the data, Microsoft has two main troubles: getting people to use Live Search, and converting people to using Live Search as their main search portal. Translation: they ain't doing so good.

The latest statistics published by Nielsen Online give Live Search and MSN a share of just 12.0% of all the searches on the U.S. market in November, compared to 13.8% in October. Those numbers pale when put next to Google, who recorded less queries in November but still increased its market share to 57.7%.

So why the disparity? Simple: the name. You can easily tell someone in a casual conversation to "Google" it, but telling someone to "Live Search" it is just so not cool (okay, okay, it's not the name; we simply didn't want to elucidate on the myriad factors behind the philosophy and practice of web searches, and were looking to save some time).

Filed under: Internet, Open Source

Firefox on the rise in Europe

Firefox in Europe
According to French analytics company Xiti Monitor, Firefox is no longer a niche player in Europe, with 23.2% of European web surfers using the open source browser, up from 19.4% in April. More telling are some of the individual countries' figures, with Firefox holding about a third of the browser share in six countries including Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, and about 40% in Finland and Slovenia. In the southern hemisphere, Australiasia is a 23.4% Firefox region, but here in North America it holds just 14.5% of the market, according to Xiti.

Here at Download Squad things look a bit different, however--if Site Meter is to be believed, 48% of you use Internet Explorer, followed by 46% Firefox faithful, with Konqueror (3%), Safari (2%), and Opera (1%) bringing up the rear.

[Via Boing Boing]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Open Source

Firefox use up to 13%, but growth could slow

Firefox use up to 13%, but growth is slowingWhile Firefox's market share reached 15 percent in the US last month, eWeek is reporting that it's hit 13.71 percent world wide. However, the browser's spread has been hindered by recently publicized security flaws and lingering incompatibility issues, especially in the corporate sector. eWeek also cites trouble in the form of IE7, which Microsoft will push out as an automatic update, as well as their not-quite-ecstatic reaction to the first beta of Firefox 2.0 in light of how competitors like Opera 9 and IE7 are closing the gap.

I guess only time will tell how the official 2.0 release, slated for late September, boosts the spread of Firefox.

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