Firefox Euro market share grows

ADTECH
27-03-2007 11:31 AM

Almost one third of online users in Germany favour Firefox, while across Europe the overall average market share for the open-source browser has now reached almost 15 per cent, according to new research.

The survey, conducted by ad serving company ADTECH, determined the distribution of browsers in individual countries as part of a major recent study into web browser market share.

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Browser-distribution by country for February 2007 (in %):

	Browser	Europe- wide	Germany	Finland	UK	France	Italy	Denmark
	IE 6.x	50.86	43.66	39.59	55.00	49.02	59.6	65.04
	IE 7.x	25.87	21.36	27.35	29.62	31.92	24.03	22.85
	Firefox 1.x	6.09	10.28	12.62	4.83	7.45	4.58	3.07
	Firefox 2.x	8.25	19.35	15.66	5.80	8.37	6.68	3.88
	Mozilla	5.11	0.90	0.44	0.22	0.34	0.84	0.44
	AppleWebKit	1.63	2.03	1.26	2.29	1.51	2.22	2.08
	Opera 8	0.85	1.69	1.96	0.51	0.29	0.42	1.21
	IE 5.x	0.61	0.97	0.43	0.77	0.90	1.25	0.27

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