.. a substantial piece of the action
XiTiMonitor has reported on the spread of Firefox. As a fanatic Firefox user I have repeatedly blogged about Firefox. As there are so many reasons to at least give it a try. Take some time to check some of the extensions: these do add value.
Europe
Back to XiTiMonitor. They have produced some nice graphs about the spread of Firefox. The first one (below) shows the spread throughout Europe.
As a Dutch citizen it hurts a bit that apparently we are slow to move. So are the Danish. As I recall correctly we were also clinging onto Novell Netware and Wordperfect as the world was moving to Windows NT and Word. You could say that was pure genius back then, but seeing the trend now it is more some conservative carefulness. We know what we have let's cling on to it. Only Ukraine is worse at adopting Firefox.
The world
When looking at the World map I feel proud to be European. Europe is the forerunner with Firefox. Down Under people seem to be picking it also in a good way.
Not ready yet
But we are not there yet! Not in The Netherlands and not in the rest of the World. Get Firefox!
Don't be shy or scared, it's easy, it's painless. It is liberating.
I think it's explainable why the Netherlands (and most of Western Europe actually) stay behind a bit. Over here there's lots of big multinationals with a) internet access for all their employees and b) difficulty with changing things that have been implemented on a large scale. As the big highspeed cheap internet revolution pretty much took place in the period where IE was pseudo monopolist and (big) companies have the tendency to want everything from the same supplier and it actually takes effort to change to Firefox, I'm suspecting pretty much all of corporate Western Europe browses with IE. You see much more Firefox use in Eastern Europe, where I suppose massive corporate surfing isn't as widespread as here.
ReplyDeleteIf you could figure out a way to distinguish between corporate and private internet use, I suspect we'd be much closer to the frontrunners.