Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jan 2006 14:26 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones 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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RE: The Dutch..
by Thom_Holwerda on Tue 17th Jan 2006 15:57 UTC in reply to "The Dutch.."
Thom_Holwerda
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.

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RE[2]: The Dutch..
by deepspace on Tue 17th Jan 2006 16:51 in reply to "RE: The Dutch.."
deepspace 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

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RE[3]: The Dutch..
by kragil on Tue 17th Jan 2006 18:52 in reply to "RE[2]: The Dutch.."
kragil Member since:
2006-01-04

Maybe running around in wooden shoes and taking drugs all day is no good for Firefox ;-) ( just joking )

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RE[3]: The Dutch..
by kmarius on Tue 17th Jan 2006 20:31 in reply to "RE[2]: The Dutch.."
kmarius Member since:
2005-06-30

Yeah, but I think the statistics he was thinking of was the number of internet users. A higher percentage of people are connected to the Internet in Scandinavia (at least it was a couple of years ago). Broadband != Internet usage.

Edited 2006-01-17 20:37

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