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Government warnings against IE cause orgy of Firefox, Opera downloads
The result: their citizens ditching IE en masse.
As you can see in the chart, nearly 300,000 Germans have downloaded Firefox in the last four days. Opera has seen a significant jump as well, reporting that downloads in Germany have doubled. In France, the uptick seems to have primarily benefited Mozilla, with Opera reporting only a slight increase. Mozilla won't have stats ready for a few days, but they've said the change was noticeable.
Opera also reported that downloads in Australia jumped 37%.
There's every reason to think Google Chrome is getting in on the action as well - but Google's not keen to make with the numbers. They suggest we sit tight and check third-party reports at the end of the month.
ed: if you're not up to speed about why this happened, check out Sebastian's post regarding the critical patch issued by Microsoft today!
[via The Register]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsSDreamerJan 20th 2010 3:01PM
I fear that increase in market share for competitors is going to lead to vulnerabilities to them as well later on, thus leveling the playing field in terms of security. Hopefully the companies have the man power to keep up.
TrueEddieJan 20th 2010 3:56PM
I second that fear
SilverWaveJan 21st 2010 12:23PM
The change in market share between 25% and 50% is not going to be a problem for firefox.
Any issues would have came to light when we made the jump from
SilverWaveJan 21st 2010 12:24PM
The change in market share between 25% and 50% is not going to be a problem for firefox.
Any issues would have came to light when we made the jump from less than 1% to 5%.
goldfishJan 21st 2010 2:19AM
" No, this round of 'ditch IE' requests came from the governments of Germany, France, and Australia."
Didn't UK also warn its citizens
I think Firefox, Chrome and Opera are much safer.
SangorJan 21st 2010 5:01AM
The UK government have said that they will not issue any warning at this time, looks like they are waiting to see if this escalates.
SilverWaveJan 21st 2010 12:27PM
Come on! The UK government Knighted Billy Boy!
Microsoft has the UK government locked up.
SilverWaveJan 21st 2010 12:21PM
Yeah... the site that the UK Gov points you to is run in part be Microsoft :)
rikstik71664Jan 21st 2010 2:40PM
If you have google chrome, google keeps your internet activity FOREVER.
JohnJan 21st 2010 2:42PM
I E gets attacked because that is where the most people are. Shift to Firefox and the hackers will switch their efforts there. It won't stay safe. The only reason Macs are safer is because Mac users are a vast minority. Having said that I think I will switch to Firefox or chrome and be safer for now. I get really pissed that Washington isn't locking these hackers and spammers up and throwing away the key. They are ruining the greatest thing to come along in a lifetime.
rednec0Jan 21st 2010 8:53PM
Enjoy your proprietary hardware, unstable operating system, and numerous security holes ya tool.
ChrisJan 21st 2010 2:45PM
Firefox, since 2004, has always been a piece of junk compared to Opera.
TonyJan 21st 2010 2:55PM
it does not matter which is better or not cuz if one gets higher rateing then the other the other is gonna make itself better whitch costs $$$$$$ ($ we can be using for other more better stuff) and its a never ending tower of one being better then the other. but eh its bussiness this is what u have to do if u want people to like ur product better then the other guys.
eisenhutenstadtJan 21st 2010 3:15PM
It would be nice to know the reasons IE is taking this heat. Not all of us had a clue.
FranJan 21st 2010 6:35PM
I'm with you! What's the beef? What is wrong with IE? Are we in some sort of danger? Clue me in, too, please.
Mike GJan 21st 2010 4:25PM
Nowhere does this article say why those governments "ordered" their citizens to dump IE. Does anyone know why?
bambooJan 21st 2010 5:15PM
A lot of it comes from the big Google hack by China last week. MS said it was through a problem in IE.