September 27, 2005

10%? A Breeze...

Remember our aim at the beginning of the year was to try and get Firefox usage up to 10% by the end? Well, it's only September, and XITI Monitor's latest figures show that there are only two countries in the EU that they measure data for which have Firefox usage of under 10%. Come on Lithuania and Malta!

Yes, I know, this doesn't mean we have over 10% worldwide yet.

Posted by gerv at September 27, 2005 4:41 PM
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There are really four countries are under 10%:
Lithuania 8,68%
Monaco 6,9%
Malta 5,08%
Ukraine 2,89%

Ok, this doesn't change the great Firefox success in Europe

Posted by: gbitten at September 27, 2005 5:13 PM

"Yes, I know, this doesn't mean we have over 10% worldwide yet."

Who says? Some numbers say we're there, others say we're close, and still others say we're even higher than 10%.

Posted by: Rafael at September 27, 2005 6:07 PM

gbitten: Gerv was talking about EU countries. Ukraine and Monaco aren't members of the European Union.

On the other hand, XitiMonitor didn't include other EU countries, such as Cyprus, Latvia and Slovenia, so we can't be sure if only two EU countries are below 10%.

Posted by: marcoos at September 27, 2005 6:58 PM

hmm.. Does it conclusively conclude that the folks from Finland are the smartest lot of them all?

Posted by: For fun at September 27, 2005 8:22 PM

Marcoos: it depends what you call Europe. What's the definition : Politics, geography? Probably a mix of the two... Switzerland is not a part of the European Union, but it's surely part of Europe, for example.

Posted by: Tristan at September 27, 2005 8:56 PM

The page http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html says that the Lithuanian version of Firefox 1.0.7 is "Not Yet Available". Is there a problem with localisation? That could explain a lot.

I hope the figures will rise again as soon as Firefox 1.5 is out, complete with MSI-based installer.

Posted by: ADAXL at September 28, 2005 5:01 AM

Are there any current numbers for the US, especially from sites that do not cater to the tech crowd? CNN? Other news websites?

http://mozilla.wikicities.com/wiki/Stats_Tracking lists some sites that provide usage data, but most of these are tech sites, if not geek hangouts.

Posted by: ADAXL at September 28, 2005 7:43 AM