XiTi Monitor has just released updated numbers showing continuing growth for Firefox in Europe.
According to XiTi, Firefox is at 27.8% usage in Europe which is up 3.7 points since their last measure 4 months ago. Slovenia is still leading the pack and has gained nearly three and a half points bringing it up to about 48% for Firefox. Following Slovenia, as has been the case for a while now, is Finland. Finland has passed the 45% mark and my prediction of Slovenia being first to 50% may fall if Finland keeps making those kinds of gains. (we should have some kind of prize for the community in the first country that passes 50%.)
Globally, again according to XiTi, Firefox continues to make significant gains. Topping the list are Oceania and South America, both making big leaps forward (any coincidence that I visited both continents this year ;-)
XiTi is also reporting that Firefox 2 has overtaken IE7 usage in Europe. Their previous results had IE7 passing Firefox 2.
update Mozilla Links had this before me, I now see, and they've got some pretty graphs.
Posted by: ADAXL | July 13, 2007 10:52 PM
I made some comments about this over at Spread Firefox (I should have checked here first; looks like you beat me to it :) Did you notice that the countries fall into two groups; those with less than 25% FF (17) and those with greater than 30% (15)... One wonders if the high percentage group has past some sort of tipping point. Certainly that would make sense of the Ireland numbers (usage jumped by a half since March!)
Regarding IE7, I think that meshes with its plateauing adoption rates you blogged about previously.
Posted by: Limulus | July 14, 2007 5:22 PM
Asa, maybe you should read http://standblog.org/blog/post/2007/07/17/Firefox-market-share-update
Posted by: Adam Hauner | July 17, 2007 9:04 AM
This is really good news for the Mozilla community. In Austria where I live, Firefox gets excellent media coverage even in the mainstream press. I haven't seen an Austrian site that didn't work with Firefox in ages.
Once Firefox 3 takes off, this will get even better.