FireFox’s progression marches steadily on in the Euopean ‘Browser wars‘. The open source underdog has been chewing out lumps of the market from under IE7’s feet for a while and it looks set to continue. A survey carried out between the 5th & 11th of March has shown that FireFox has overtaken IE7 in 14 of the 30 European countries involved. This must be seen as a blow for the Microsoft browser surely, IE7 is a major update and the fact that it’s being shipped out to most PC’s on the planet has still not stopped FireFox climbing the percentages.
The release of the latest browser versions: FF 2.0 and IE7, coincided last October and there was massive interest and downloading on the Mozilla site, at the time it was said that some of this activity was due to the novelty aspect not actual conversions, but the figures are telling a different tale in, Europe at least: in April 2006 FF had a 19.4 % share - in March 2007 FF is up to a 24.1 % share, that’s a foxes whisker away from a flaming quarter! Is it a question of time before IE7 gets outfoxed in Europe?
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1 Eric Odom » 47% of network traffic uses Firefox // Mar 26, 2007 at 9:24 am
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2 47% of network traffic uses Firefox // Jan 20, 2008 at 3:55 am
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