Firefox reached 29% share in Europe
XiTi Monitor has released the latest numbers on browsers utilization in Europe and the rest of the world, announcing it has reached about 29% in March 2008.
Finland, Poland and Slovenia keep leading the pack with 45.9%, 44% and 43.7% respectively. Considering other browsers including Safari and Opera probably have a strong presence in Europe as well, it could also mean that Firefox is used even more than Internet Explorer in those same countries.
XiTi also notes that usage climbed to 30.1% on weekends when people is more likely accessing the web from their homes rather than work where company policies may override their personal preferences.
Market share is definitely being grabbed from Internet Explorer which stays in a slow course down. Opera and Opera are the other major browsers growing at its expense.
Globally, Firefox grew in all the continents and Oceania remains as the leader with 31.2% (almost flat compared to February 31.1%). Africa saw the greatest growth with a 3% increase month over month.
Full XiTi Monitor March report (fr).
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April 25th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Cool. But instead of speculating about IE’s presence, why not show its figures?
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April 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Figures would be good!
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April 26th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Ditto, I stopped reading after the IE speculation. Surely the very same study should have those figures.
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April 26th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
IE sucks … that’s what hapenned … hihi
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April 27th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Unfortunately with the lack of company policies and even government the growth of Open Source, including firefox will be forever slow. But 3% is good!
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May 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I’m so proud to be from Slovenia at this occasion :)
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