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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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Subscribe to commentsLevel 5Mar 31st 2009 4:39PM
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.
nrdiss82May 1st 2009 7:24PM
I agree. I hope they release a linux version soon.
Steve GMar 31st 2009 5:40PM
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%.
lilduderpimpMar 31st 2009 6:07PM
Firefox is crap. Plain and simple, its slow and ugly.
whiskeyApr 1st 2009 1:06PM
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.
Goron40May 31st 2009 9:15PM
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.