Mozilla Firefox has achieved a market share of over 20 percent in Europe, according to the latest figures released by French Web metrics firm XiTi. XiTi, which based its figures on a sample of 32.5 million Web site visits that took place on Sunday 8 January, said that Finland has the highest proportion of Firefox users, followed by Slovenia and Germany. It found that the open source browser is used by 38, 36 and 30 percent of users in these countries respectively.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Well, not really. The Scandinavian countries have a much higher broadband-penetration than we Dutch (no link atm, sorry), yet they have a much higher figure of Firefox users.
The problem lies in our nature. Dutch people are inherently ordinary, they don't want to stand out. As such, they are less inclined to deviate from the mean (Windows + IE +Office, in this case) than people in other countries. In The Netherlands, people expect you to do as everyone else. Which means 2.2 kids, Opel Astra 1.4, and of course Dancing With The Stars and Idols.
Hey don't look at me.
Member since:2006-01-03
Well, not really. The Scandinavian countries have a much higher broadband-penetration than we Dutch (no link atm, sorry), yet they have a much higher figure of Firefox users.
Please check your facts, because this is not true. Look here:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0504/broadband_europe_634x480...
All top 4 countries have low firefox figures!
But you're still correct, we Dutch are ordinary 
Edited 2006-01-17 16:55
Member since:
2006-01-03
.. are seriously behind. I sould be ashamed of myself. but the reason is fairly logica: Here, much more people have access to the internet, so it's less like a "geek thing", and more a mass consumption thing. Everyone has a broadband connection here. So this means that more unknowing and ingnorant people surf the internet than in surrounding countries.
Edited 2006-01-17 15:52