This is an interesting stat – “Firefox’s market share has hit 28.0% in Europe”. This according to a French web stats firm and was also reported on Slashdot. I believe this is another sign of a wider trend for open source software projects, especially in Europe. The trending being success and market share growth.
I am a big fan and a user of Firefox, so no surprise here really. I just wonder how may people use 2 or more flavors of browser? I know I use both IE and FF, probably 80% FF and 20% IE in terms of my overall use-age.
Note: I am late on posting about this stat because I am generally behind on my blogging, but still wanted to post on it. 
2 responses so far ↓
Riaz Kanani // 20 February 2008 at 4:35 pm |
Have you tried using IETab for firefox – I technically use IE 10% of the time just through the Firefox interface – IEtab can automatically display websites using the IE rendering engine inside Firefox – it also remembers the sites when you want to do this so after a while I dont even have to think about it.
dylanfuller // 22 February 2008 at 11:09 am |
Thanks for that, Riaz…
I was wondering if perhaps we see double counting in browser users? What I mean is maybe the numbers are IE – 85%, FF – 28%, Safari – 9%, Opera – 8%, Others – 1% etc. Which adds up to more than 100%. I know that I use 2 browser flavors. And what about all the other ways people are consuming content online – such as RSS readers, J2EE apps on mobiles, email etc? In the end there is variety and we are seeing the IE franchise is not as strong as maybe we thought.