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:2005-08-29
Oh well, I wouldn't say the french are anti-european (there were many reasons for which the constitution was refused) and certainly not pro-american... they're french after all :-) Anyway these days there isn't any western european country where the population isn't vastly anti-american (in the sense that they are opposed to the current administration). Now to stop using my mac because it was designed by americans, that would be quite dumb.
International politics have probably little to do with the choice of one's browser. But I do think some countries have a mind that's more into "group projects" than others. Nordic countries and germany obviously are. Just look at projects like KDE. It seems half the developers are in Germany and another quarter in Scandinavia.
Hm... I see a pattern: BEER !
But how could this explain the Dutch thing...
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2005-11-08
I am pretty impressed by greece. It is actually more than france! I kind of liked somebodys interpretation that the figures are lower when the internet penetration is higher (more ignorant people browse) but this does not explain germany's 30%. It is kind of fun to think of it as a measure of anti-american or pro-EU feelings of each country. Therefore Germany scores high and France (who recently rejected the EU consitution) scores lower. That explains the Spanish, GB and Dutch results too. Also the romantic and economically dependent greece scores unexpectedly high. Of course you cannot take this really seriously but it is kind of amusing. What do you guys think?