Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe 384
Tookis writes "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."
That's because (Score:1, Funny)
Great (Score:5, Funny)
IE 7 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Browser usage (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where do the stats come from? (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, it's you! Stop sending me email.
Re:Great (Score:5, Funny)
I want to use wget, but it is also has a history of bugs that can be exploited [google.com].
I'll stick with telnet, and parse it with my eyes. Although it is a bit difficult for HTTPS sites.
Re:Hoo-ray (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's about Freedom. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wish for US (Score:2, Funny)
Think that's bad? (Score:3, Funny)
So, when you are cracking up because of idiot webmasters locking you in to using IE7 to view their sites, just know you don't have the absolute worst of it
Re:IE 7 (Score:2, Funny)
Did IE 7 add a "hold a gun to your head" plugin recently that we don't know about?
"As an IT professional I have no issues with spyware/viruses regardless of the browser I use."
Wow... I didn't know that 'IT Professionals' were immune to viruses! Who would have thought that viruses, trojans, etc. were clever enough to check your resume...
So, you are an 'IT Professional' that proudly proclaims they use Vista... Oh wait - you forgot mention that you were a Micro$oft employee...
Re:Hoo-ray (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Browser usage (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hoo-ray (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Browser usage (Score:2, Funny)
(All joking aside, do we really need to verify that a large contingent of Slashdotters don't use IE?)
Re:Hoo-ray (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where do the stats come from? (Score:3, Funny)
I hate IE 6 (Score:2, Funny)