Firefox leads in Europe

[FetchDoggie!]

For the first time in a decade, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is no longer the leading Web browser in Europe, ceding the top position to Mozilla’s Firefox, an Irish research firm that tracks Web-surfing activity said Tuesday.

New York Times article.

[Gremlinzzz]

I,am not surprised if you try firefox you'll stay with it over Internet explorer.

[FetchDoggie!]

It seems like a milestone for an open source product to beat a microsoft product (in a market share sense) in a major consumer market.

[Paqman]

It seems like a milestone for an open source product to beat a microsoft product (in a market share sense) in a major consumer market.

Apache was there yonks ago. But well done Firefox!

Microsoft still are the yardstick everyone compares themselves against, but I wonder how long that's going to be true for. I kind of feel they're the new IBM. Once an unstoppable juggernaut that ruled the world but became set in stone and lost the ability to innovate, but that will never really die or go away.

[Spice Weasel]

Woo.

[lovinglinux]

I hate to bring bad news to a Firefox thread, but the big winner of 2010 was Chrome. It ended 2010 with 10% market share.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20026944-264.html

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._explorer.html

Firefox beating IE in Europe is definitely a great achievement. However, that is mostly due to Chrome eating a piece of IE market share.

Hopefully, Firefox 4 will help putting things back on track.

[Paqman]

However, that is mostly due to Chrome eating a piece of IE market share.

It's hard to say exactly. When you look at the overall figures, that's what it suggests. But there's also likely to be significant numbers of Firefox users switching to Chrome, many of who will be replaced by people switching to Firefox from IE.

[doorknob60]

At least people are smart somewhere

[HappinessNow]

I hate to bring bad news to a Firefox thread, but the big winner of 2010 was Chrome. It ended 2010 with 10% market share.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20026944-264.html

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._explorer.html

Firefox beating IE in Europe is definitely a great achievement. However, that is mostly due to Chrome eating a piece of IE market share.

Hopefully, Firefox 4 will help putting things back on track.

firefox, IE, Opera, etc. do NOT work on my Google Chrome OS CR-48 Cloudbook!

[lovinglinux]

firefox, IE, Opera, etc. do NOT work on my Google Chrome OS CR-48 Cloudbook!

For the record, I don't like Chrome browser and although I wish to have a browser based Firefox OS or Opera OS, I don't like the idea of being locked with a single application, a limited bash shell and the obligation to save my stuff in the cloud.