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Firefox marches on: A leading indicator for a culture’s willingness to adopt opensource?

July 11th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Four pillars

Here’s the latest figures from OneStat:

Global:

1. Microsoft IE 83.05%
2. Mozilla Firefox 12.93%
3. Apple Safari 1.84%
4. Opera 1.00%
5. Netscape 0.16%

 

Interestingly, Germany:

1. Microsoft IE 55.99%
2. Mozilla Firefox 39.02%
3. Opera 2.78%
4. Apple Safari 1.73%
5. Netscape 0.30%

 And, UK

 

1. Microsoft IE 86.23%
2. Mozilla Firefox 11.65%
3. Apple Safari 1.30%
4. Opera 0.53%
5. Netscape 0.15%

 

Sadly, the stats do not show us what’s really happening in India and China. Or even Russia and Brazil.

I think these stats are a leading indicator of a culture’s willingness and capacity to adopt opensource. Anyone got any stats to back me up?

BTW you can find the rest of the report here.

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7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 V Ramaswamy // Jul 11, 2006 at 9:28 am

    Hi JP

    I posted a piece about you on my blog:

    http://cuckooscall.blogspot.com/2006/07/confused-of-calcutta.html

    best

    chutki

  • 2 Ric // Jul 11, 2006 at 9:33 am

    Were those stats for general web users? I know when I look at my blog stats, Firefox is a majority - is this because blog readers are more technically-aware/geeky/early adopters?

  • 3 Ric // Jul 11, 2006 at 9:38 am

    Browser # %
    In fact - my Performancing stats for this year:

    1. Firefox 1.5.0.3 282 24%
    2. MSIE 6.0 255 22%
    3. Konqueror 3.2 196 17%
    4. Firefox 1.5.0.4 195 17%
    5. Firefox 1.5.0.2 76 7%
    6. Safari 417.9.2 22 2%
    7. Safari 417.9.3 17 1%
    8. Firefox 1.0.6 16 1%
    9. Firefox 1.5.0.1 14 1%
    10. Opera 9.00 12 1%
    Other 68 6%

    Plenty of “alternative” browsers in there …

  • 4 Declan // Jul 11, 2006 at 10:20 am

    Very intersting stats, especially as they seem to be in line with a previous study conducted back in January, http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement13.asp. It’s in French but you get the idea.

    As I’ve said before at my place of employment, companies that target European clients especially need to sit up and take notice of what’s happening in this area. Any business that relies on a strong online presence should be gearing their conetent to work across browsers.

    The era of designing web apps to work in one browser is over.

  • 5 sonia // Jul 11, 2006 at 1:38 pm

    Interesting - long live Firefox - given it’s a vastly superior browser - it’s hardly a suprise. It’s also becoming more and more clear that anyone who knows what they’re doing is switching over to Firefox - or off IE at any rate.

  • 6 sonia // Jul 11, 2006 at 1:41 pm

    As Ric points out - certain groups are more likely to use Firefox than others. I also think that were it not for big business getting in the way - using its monopoly power - there would be much more uptake of open source initiatives. like ubuntu.. again vastly superior to Windows..

  • 7 Ankh // Jul 11, 2006 at 8:20 pm

    The XiTiMonitor (as Declan pointed out) provides another report
    http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement16.asp

    Africa: 9.8%
    Asia: 9.5%

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