Firefox takes 28% market share in Europe
Posted by Percy Cabello on July 13th, 2007 • Tags:
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XiTi Monitor has released its latest report (FR) on web browsers utilization in Europe and the rest of the world according to a survey during the first week of July.

All European countries saw an increase in Firefox participation with Hungary showing the most dramatic increase from 27.2%, in the latest March 2007 survey, to 39.7%. Overall, Europe grew from 24.1% to 27.8%.

I’ve been tracking XiTi results for a long while now and the chart below shows the market share evolution for the top 8 European countries.

XiTi Europe 2007 July

At the global level, all continents show a notable increase with South America taking the largest growth to reach 15.5% from 11.9% in the latest report. Oceania keeps the lead at 28.9%.

XiTi Global 2007 July

A recent report by W3Counters showed some similar results at the global level.

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Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more said on July 13, 2007, 10:46 pm:

new xiti numbers – firefox at 28% in europe

XiTi Monitor has just released updated numbers showing continuing growth for Firefox in Europe. According to XiTi, Firefox is at 27.8% usage in Europe which is up 3.7 points since their last measure 4 months ago. Slovenia is still leading the pack and …

David Naylor said on July 14, 2007, 2:28 am:

Nice to see that the global increase is picking up a bit again since the launch of IE7. Interesting to see Australia and co taking the lead.

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David Naylor said on July 14, 2007, 2:31 am:

…but a shame that asia, where all the people live, is at the bottom…

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Jure Repinc said on July 14, 2007, 7:53 pm:

It’s great to see that Firefox usage is increasing so much over the world. And I’m especially proud to be Slovenian where we lead the world in Firefox adoption. Just a few months and Firefox will be the most used browser in our country. Hope to see other countries around the follow us soon.

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Celso Timana said on July 15, 2007, 6:14 am:

Unfortunately my lovely country, Africa, is beyond all the continents. But Firefox is already a well know alternative in My country, Mozambique.

What we need more is learn about the gains that someone has when using Firefox.

Keep rising UP FIREFOX!!!!

Celso Timana

Open Source Specialist

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Bashar said on July 15, 2007, 6:15 am:

Forza Firefox.

@David Naylor: Yeah… surprising really why? Could Microsoft influence be stronger in that area?

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John S said on July 15, 2007, 7:54 am:

I think some of Firefox’s market increase is due to the fact it works with other OS’s Specifically Linux which is more popular in less afluent countries. It has begun to level off some, which indicate those who want to switch have. I am a Mac user and have found it less popular with Mac user’s. Although Camino has a very good browser for Mac.
I still have problems with some web sites with Safari or Camino.
Seems some web designers still code only to IE.

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Ivo Vegter said on July 15, 2007, 8:15 am:

Do the results explain the mystery of why the poorest parts of the world – Latin America, Africa and Asia – are least likely to switch?

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Adriaan said on July 15, 2007, 9:01 am:

Awesome, I can’t wait for it to reach 50% global usage!

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martin said on July 15, 2007, 9:19 am:

how do you pick these “top european countries”?

i was suprised that both england and sweden are not on the list, how come?

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Percy Cabello said on July 15, 2007, 9:46 am:

martin, these are the countries with the highest market share.

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Jeroen said on July 15, 2007, 12:40 pm:

Too bad my country (The Netherlands) has the lowest Fx rate, 14,6%.

But then again, the dutch are very, very MS-centered. So no surprises here.

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domelhor.net said on July 15, 2007, 1:03 pm:

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Firefox takes 28% market share in Europe

XiTi Monitor has released its latest report (FR) on web browsers utilization in Europe and the rest of the world according to a survey during the first week of July.

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Brian Turner said on July 16, 2007, 3:28 pm:

What’s interesting is that Mozilla use seems strongest in Eastern Europe, with Central Europe stats being significantly lower. I wonder if there’s an explanation for that based on language interface differences between MS and Moz products?

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Joe Gakenheimer said on August 28, 2007, 12:51 pm:

I was working on an ASP.Net 1.1 project and noticed how much faster FireFox ran than IE. Unfortunately, ASP.Net 1.1. I did some partial page caching and there is not screen flash with FireFox, but a good amount with IE7.

IE7 does have some nice features, but FireFox is much more enjoyable to browse the Internet!

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bilgisayar tamiri said on November 16, 2007, 9:09 pm:

Nice to see that the global increase is picking up a bit again since the launch of IE7. Interesting to see Australia and co taking the lead.

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Mathew Hartnell said on April 24, 2008, 11:51 am:

Hey, I am from England and I am using it for a long while. I was suprised that both england and sweden are not on the list!

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