Firefox takes big bite of Europe browser market

A FIRM released figures which it said showed over one in four Germans are using Firefox.

Web Side Story made the claim in a survey of European users during June, using stats based on its HBX Analytics software.

Firefox is used by one in 10 US users, the firm claimed.

Web Side Story analyst Geoff Johnston said: "Germans have always seemed to embrace alternatives to Microsoft when it comes to web browsers. Firefox appears to have a stronger foothold in some European countries than in the US. Most of these gains appear to have come at the expense of Microsoft."

Country	Internet E	Firefox	Others*	Daily Sample
Germany	65.04%	26.8%	8.16%	2,181,802
France	82.27%	14.89%	2.84%	1,053,701
Italy	84.76%	12.46%	2.78%	678,166
Spain	88.12%	9.86%	2.02%	767,382
UK	88.78%	8.82%	2.40%	6,537,577
USA	84.64%	9.95%	3.45%	49,732,535

Browser Usage Share June 2006
* Others include Opera, Safari etc.

Web Side Story said browser usage share is the percentage of visitors from a country using one browser over another. The sample size is 80 million Internet users a day. µ

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