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Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe 391

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:28PM from the edge-of-the-wedge dept.

A user writes "French researcher Xiti claims that Mozilla Firefox keeps winning terrain in Europe. 24.1% of Internet users in Europe use Firefox. Slovenia (44.5%), Finland (41.3%), Croatia (36.5%), and Germany (36.2%) lead the way, followed by a group of mostly Eastern European countries. Remarkably, The Netherlands is only at 13.3%, right before Andorra. Oceania maintains a slight lead over Europe, at 24.8%; the rest of the world trails at 11.9% to 15.1%."

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Ballmer chair jokes.... (Score:2, Funny)

by 8127972 ( 73495 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:30PM (#18759303)

.... In 3 - 2 - 1....

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Re:Ballmer chair jokes.... (Score:4, Funny)

by Ariastis ( 797888 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:37PM (#18759425)

Your wrong. The IE team needs help moving furniture around.

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Yeah but... (Score:4, Funny)

by misleb ( 129952 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:37PM (#18759433)

Wasn't the Amiga also popular in Europe at some point? Nothing wrong with the Amiga, just pointing out that you can't always use Europe as a gauge for success. ;-)

-matthew

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Re:Yeah but... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:39PM (#18759463)

But where's Oceania?

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Re:Ballmer chair jokes.... (Score:3, Funny)

by 644bd346996 ( 1012333 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:43PM (#18759541)

Hmmm.... That could offer some insight as to why IE is so bad. All their furniture is broken, and the walls have gaping holes from having desks and chairs thrown through them. Their light fixtures are probably in bad shape, too.

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I must be ignorant (Score:5, Funny)

by stratjakt ( 596332 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:45PM (#18759577) Journal

Whats Oceania? I thought it was a made-up supernation from Orwell's 1984.

Firefox is fast becoming newspeak for "web browser".

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Re:Yeah but... (Score:5, Funny)

by lavid ( 1020121 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:51PM (#18759679) Homepage

I thought we were at war with East Asia....

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Re:I must be ignorant (Score:5, Funny)

by IthnkImParanoid ( 410494 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:55PM (#18759745)

It's called Australia, after the only nation of any importance on it. Sort of like "America", but slightly less kick-ass.

:p

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Re:Nice indeed, but... (Score:5, Funny)

by whoisjoe ( 465549 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @07:57PM (#18759769) Homepage

DEAR SIR,

HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY ESTEEMED COLLEAGUES, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO INCREASE FIREFOX USAGE 45,000,000% (FORTY-FIVE MILLION PERCENT). THE ABOVE INCREASE WILL TAKE OVER FIVE (5) YEARS.

I ASSURE YOU THAT THIS INCREASE IS RISK FREE ON ALL SIDES.

PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY.

BEST REGARDS,
DR. ABRAHAM UMBABWE

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Re:Yeah but... (Score:5, Funny)

by jfengel ( 409917 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @08:09PM (#18759959) Homepage Journal

Nope. Eurasia is the enemy. Eurasia has always been the enemy.

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Re:Australia (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @08:11PM (#18759989)

> But most Americans consider Australia to be its own continent

That's just demonstrating the ignorance of Americans. Australia shares land borders with several other countries, such as Queensland to the north and Victoria to the south. Calling the whole continent "Australia" while ignoring the contributions of the other countries on the continent, Oceania, just because they're not populated by westernised whites is a combination of political supremism and just plain ignorance.

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Re:I must be ignorant (Score:4, Funny)

by SeaFox ( 739806 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @08:14PM (#18760043)

It's called Australia, after the only nation of any importance on it.

People in New Zealand will be happy to hear that.

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Re:What am I forgetting Ending in X. (Score:3, Funny)

by TaoPhoenix ( 980487 ) writes: <TaoPhoenix@yahoo.com> on Monday April 16, 2007 @08:26PM (#18760183) Journal

You're forgetting Linux, OS X, and Tux.

Fornication ends in N.

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Re:I must be ignorant (Score:3, Funny)

by PitaBred ( 632671 ) writes: <slashdot&pitabred,dyndns,org> on Monday April 16, 2007 @08:37PM (#18760329) Homepage

Meh. The like sheep ;)

http://www.adultsheepfinder.com/ [adultsheepfinder.com]

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Re:Yeah but... (Score:4, Funny)

by kakofb ( 725561 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @08:46PM (#18760485)

Map of the World [supanet.com]
Oceania is made up of Kangaroos and Xena and the few surrounding unmarked islands.

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Re:Linux came from Europe... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @08:48PM (#18760541)

Oh really? I haven't seen anything great developed on Pluto.

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Re:sounds way of low for home users (Score:5, Funny)

by ant-1 ( 120272 ) writes: <<eman.hcuop> <ta> <1-tna>> on Monday April 16, 2007 @09:07PM (#18760851)

This tells me nothing until I know the target audience for your site and the number of visitors.
Dude, GP poster has an ID lower than 5000 ! He could well have the data compounded from half of internet servers, including yours. So do as every smart slashdotter would do : accept his numbers and nit-pick them a bit and pray he doesn't pull the plug from your petty web server...

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Re:sounds way of low for home users (Score:5, Funny)

by JanneM ( 7445 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @09:33PM (#18761229) Homepage

Dude, GP poster has an ID lower than 5000 ! He could well have the data compounded from half of internet servers, including yours.

Or he could have been running a Gundam doll fan site for the past five years ("They're not dolls! They're action figures!!!"), thereby solidly representing the browser choices of the still-living-at-home-at-35 demographic.

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Re:Linux came from Europe... (Score:5, Funny)

by Oktober Sunset ( 838224 ) writes: <sdpage103NO@SPAMyahoo.co.uk> on Monday April 16, 2007 @09:40PM (#18761299)

have you ever been to Pluto? No you haven't, so don't go bad mouthing the Plutonians when you don't know shit about the things they've invented, what did they ever do to you? It seems declassifying them as a planet was just the start, when will this wave of Plutophobia stop?

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Re:Linux came from Europe... (Score:2, Funny)

by Tiiba ( 949795 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @09:59PM (#18761515)

Plutocrat.

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New Zealand. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @10:17PM (#18761747)

New Zealand is Australia's Canada.

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Re:What am I forgetting Ending in X. (Score:5, Funny)

by ozmanjusri ( 601766 ) writes: <aussie_bob@hoMOSCOWtmail.com minus city> on Monday April 16, 2007 @10:30PM (#18761917) Journal

Fornication ends in N.
No, this being Slashdot, it normally ends in a Kleenex.

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Re:Yeah but... (Score:5, Funny)

by lewp ( 95638 ) writes: on Monday April 16, 2007 @11:28PM (#18762431) Journal

Are you kidding? Not only is legalized prostitution very popular with lawmakers, they're also its most proficient practitioners.

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Re:The numbers for the Netherlands are not surpris (Score:3, Funny)

by Soko ( 17987 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:00AM (#18762683) Homepage

I don't find that remarkable at all. I lived in the Netherlands for a few years, and one of the things that struck me was how Microsoft-centric the universities were.

Isn't marijuana legal, or at least decriminalized in The Netherlands? That would be a plausible explanation of that statement.

Soko

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Re:Linux came from Europe... (Score:3, Funny)

by orkysoft ( 93727 ) writes: <orkysoft@m y r e a l b ox.com> on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @01:11AM (#18763201) Journal

Those who don't understand UNIX, are doomed to -- oh crap...

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Re:Yeah but... (Score:3, Funny)

by niktemadur ( 793971 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @03:09AM (#18764085)

Maybe so, but remember: Never get involved in a land war with Eurasia.

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Re:Yeah but... (Score:4, Funny)

by PinkyDead ( 862370 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @06:25AM (#18765095) Journal

Is 'snooby' a word? If it isn't it should be.

As should 'prud'. I don't know what they are, but I like them.

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Re:Linux came from Europe... (Score:5, Funny)

by pipatron ( 966506 ) writes: <pipatron@gmail.com> on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @06:54AM (#18765215) Homepage

Not to mention WWI and WWII.

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