Web browser Firefox increases market share in Europe

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Firefox share by continent	%
1. Oceania	28.9%
2. Europe	27.8%
3. North America	18.7%
4. South America	15.5%
5. Africa	14.7%
6. Asia	14.3%
source:XiTiMonitor

The French web survey provider XiTiMonitor reports that in their study conducted from Monday, July 2 to Sunday, July 8, 2007 on 95,827 websites, web browser Mozilla Firefox reached a 27.8% share in Europe, compared to 21.1% during the same period last year.

Firefox has its biggest market share in Slovenia and Finland where it amounts to 47.9% and 45.4%, respectively, while only 14.6% of people from the Netherlands and 15.2% of surfers in Denmark used Firefox in this survey. The share rose most in Ireland: from 24.9% to 38.6% (i.e. +13.7 points).

Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer remains the most used browser in Europe with a market share of 66.5%. Opera and Safari have a 3.5% and 1.7% share respectively, with other browsers at less than 1%.

Oceania remains the region with the highest usage of the freely licensed and open source software browser Firefox, with 28.9%. The continent with the strongest relative increase in market share is South America, where there is a 30% increase compared to last March. Numbers from the U.S.-based company Net Applications Inc. last month showed a fall in Firefox's share from 15.42% in April to 14.54%.

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Sources

Press Release: Firefox narrowly misses 28% use in Europe - Internet Explorer under 70% — XiTiMonitor, July 18, 2007
Eric Bangeman. Europeans embrace Firefox in record numbers — Ars Technica, July 17, 2007
Gregg Keizer. Firefox Nears 30 Percent Market Share in Europe — PC World, July 16, 2007
Gregg Keizer. Vista, Mac OS X gain users; Firefox loses market share — Computer World, June 18, 2007

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