Firefox global market share on the rise
Posted by Percy Cabello on March 21st, 2007 • Tags:
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Web analysis organization, XiTi Monitor, has released the latest report on Firefox market share evolution in Europe and globally.

According to the report, Firefox has kept its slow but steady pace up in Europe, grabbing an additional 0.9% since the last report published on November 2006, to reach 24.1%. Notable cases are Germany, Finland, Slovenia and Croatia, all around an impressive 40%, while Italy, Denmark, Andorra and the Netherlands show the lowest shares around 14%. The latter, with exception of Andorra, along with Hungary and Estonia were the only countries were market share decreased in the period.

XiTi Monitor March 2007 Europe market share

Globally, the trend stays pretty much the same: Firefox growing in all continents with Oceania and Europe leading the pack with about 1 in 4 users browsing with Firefox. Follows North America, Asia, South and Central America ranging from 12% to 15%.

XiTi Monitor March 2007 global market share

You can read the full report at XiTi Monitor (FR).

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Devon Young said on March 21, 2007, 10:27 pm:

It’s weird that the Netherlands don’t lead the pack. There seems to be quite a group of web developers from the Netherlands that knows their stuff really well. I expected that country would be using Firefox more.

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David Naylor said on March 21, 2007, 11:39 pm:

No big deal, but it’s “Slovenia”, “Czech Republic” and “Slovakia”.

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David Naylor said on March 21, 2007, 11:40 pm:

Oh, and The Netherlands

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Percy Cabello said on March 22, 2007, 11:40 am:

Updated. David: Thanks for the corrections!

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