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IE Dropping, Now Near 70% In Europe
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kdawson
on Thu Jul 19, 2007 09:27 AM
from the ascendent-fox dept.
from the ascendent-fox dept.
Kevin Spiritus lets us know that XiTi Monitor, a French Web survey institute, has published its browser barometer for July, and Internet Explorer continues to lose ground. "The ascension of Firefox continues... Nearly 28% average use rate in Europe in the beginning of July 2007, with a progression in the totality of the 32 European countries studied. Firefox doesn't loose ground in any of the countries."
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How is this not a dupe? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:How is this not a dupe? (Score:5, Funny)
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Wow, is Mozilla going to "stay the course"? (Score:5, Funny)
George W Bush = Firefox.
Stay the course, guys. Victory against Microsoft is just around the corner.
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Re:How is this not a dupe? (Score:5, Funny)
The previous story was about Firefox gaining market share.
This story is about IE "loosing" ground.
Completely different.
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Re:How is this not a dupe? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:How is this not a dupe? (Score:5, Funny)
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It doesn't loose any ground? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It doesn't loose any ground? (Score:5, Funny)
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Pound it into our heads why don't ya? (Score:5, Informative)
"Mozilla's Firefox web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor. A study of nearly 96,000 websites carried out during the week of July 2 to July 8 found that FF had 27.8% market share across Eastern and Western Europe, IE had 66.5%, with other browsers including Safari and Opera making up the remaining 5.7%. In some key European markets FF has already reached parity and is threatening to overtake IE as the market leading browser."
From the current blurb:
Kevin Spiritus lets us know that XiTi Monitor, a French Web survey institute, has published its browser barometer for July, and Internet Explorer continues to lose ground. "The ascension of Firefox continues... Nearly 28% average use rate in Europe in the beginning of July 2007, with a progression in the totality of the 32 European countries studied. Firefox doesn't loose ground in any of the countries."
I realize we have the Firehose now but are people who read Slashdot daily using it properly? We don't need two stories in a short time frame (4 days) about the same topic.
Methodology (Score:5, Insightful)
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I don't think they're meaningless. Inaccurate maybe. I can see how users of Firefox would visit certain sites more often than users of other browsers, and that could skew the numbers.
I'm Loosing My Mind! (Score:3, Funny)
Lose vs Loose (Score:5, Informative)
loose ground
This is a hard one for non-native English speakers, because "lose" is pronounced so bizarrely it sounds like it needs two Os. However, "loose" is how we describe poor security, and "lose" is what happens when I try to play one of these newfangled video games. FYI, FWIW.
Re:Lose vs Loose (Score:5, Funny)
i think "lose" should be spelled with two O's and a Z just like it sounds... like booze.
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Europe (Score:5, Funny)
Another poor dupe (Score:4, Informative)
2. Yay firefox... but honestly is it all that important? How about discussing ways we can actually get firefox to perform better? Now that's a conversation actually worth having, but it might involve thinking instead of rabid fanboyism & MS hatred, so don't expect to see it on Slashdot.
3. For the last freakin' time: Your mom is loose, you are just a loser can you finally get it right!!??!?!?!!
To be fair, the Europeans do have rotten taste (Score:4, Funny)
Missing S (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Any more data? (Score:5, Informative)
Yep!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_b
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I think this raises a point, though, in relation to browser share. The majority of users do not want to have to tweak anything. If they need to change Firefox configs in order to match performance under IE7, most would instead go back to IE7.[1]
Personally, I don't think browser share is the ultimate measure of how good a browser Firefox is. The only reason why I think it's important that FF and other browsers eat away
Re:Note to editors (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Deja Vu all over again... (Score:4, Funny)
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/loose [reference.com]
A small sample:
Over-generalising isn't going to help them remember. It'll only confuse them more when they encounter a less common usage, and think they've got it backwards again.