Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

And look at Germany over a million as well!

C'mon Spain! 5th is not good enough!

The real test comes in the next few weeks, when we see how the actual market share develops. Firefox 3 had a great launch day. Now, we must see that it stays - and grows.

Yup, Market share will have to tell, what is in store for us. I want to see Firefox to have at least 51% Market share. I wont rest easy, before that goal is accomplished. Spread the word, people. The average user needs to know, what he misses and what threat he imposes on himself and others by using IE. We can't stop, before Firefox rules web-usage!

Tyler out!

Can someone explain the "Germany phenomenon"? Why do Germans love Firefox so much more than everyone else? What's happening there?

It's the mirror baby. I wonder, where the hack is Sweden as my copy was downloaded from a mirror at SE domain.

@Leo
Have a look at the figures from Xiti Monitor:
http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/firefox-march-2008/index-1-2-3-127.html

Firefox is big in Europe. Most media here in German-speaking Europe reported the launch very nicely.

>>>Can someone explain the "Germany phenomenon"?
May be there are many satellite broadband providers in Germany?

Several dozen of those downloads are me attempting to get Firefox 2.X back. 3 did not work on Linux due to some library dependency and it lost all of its plugins on Windows and is unable to download them back in.

So, can you guys share how we can get 2 back? So far, the copies I've downloaded crash on impact.

GH "Twenty Five Years In The Biz And Nothing's Changed" Waite

Re. the Germany phenomenom: Firefox is all over the media here. All major news outlets reported on the launch and the world record attempt.

One in 80 Germans downloaded Firefox!

"Can someone explain the "Germany phenomenon"? Why do Germans love Firefox so much more than everyone else? What's happening there?"

Large population (>80M) * High FF usage (>1/3) = Numerous FF3 downloads.

See also www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/firefox-march-2008/index-1-2-3-127.html for the nice map of Europe.

Oh and speaking of nice things, I note that on
www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html
for "Fri Jun 20 23:50:08 EDT 2008"
of "Unique Visitors: 29144"
the browser versions of 1% or greater were:

OP 9 464 1.59
SF 525 474 1.63
NS 5 385 1.32
FF 2.0.0.14 4949 16.98
FF 3.0 3395 11.65
IE 5 348 1.19
IE 6 7294 25.03
IE 7 4958 17.01

Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" reports the current browser usage on its website:

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3386784

The article calls Firefox the "emperor of the weekend" because it surpasses IE on these days. Der Standard is a perfectly normal mainstream paper, no "tech" publication.

Here are the scores with English explanations:

Friday 20 Juni 2008:

Browser Share %
Internet Explorer 51,42 %
Firefox 37,58 %
Safari 7,33 %
Opera 2,63 %
Seamonkey 0,71 %
Netscape 0,14 %
Konqueror 0,09 %

Saturday 21 Juni 2008:

Browser Share %
Firefox 45,59 %
Internet Explorer 40,20 %
Safari 9,49 %
Opera 3,54 %
Seamonkey 0,82 %
Netscape 0,15 %
Konqueror 0,10 %

9 million go back to Firefox 2.0 when they realise the original Adblock 0.5.3.043 works but blocks wanted Flash content, too.