Firefox gained market share in 2007
MOZILLA'S FIREFOX Internet browser gained market share against Microsoft's Internet Explorer in European region countries and elsewhere during 2007, the French Internet traffic analysis firm XiTi Monitor has reported.
Firefox is within a few percentage points of pulling ahead of Internet Explorer in some countries. Its share is 45.4 per cent in Finland, 42.4 per cent in Poland, 41.2 per cent in Slovenia and 40.3 per cent in Hungary.
Market penetration of Firefox has also moved into the 30's percentiles range in Estonia, Greece, Germany, Latvia, Romania, Austria and Croatia as well as throughout Oceania, that is, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Firefox adoption falls somewhere within the 20's percentiles in Ireland, Sweden, France, Belgium, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Italy and Bulgaria.
Wired ascribes Firefox's success to the better and more nimble capabilities of its volunteer army of open source coders to create international localisations when a new version of the browser is released. It writes, "While Microsoft supports 36 languages, there are over 40 language-specific versions of Firefox available now with more in beta."
XiTi Monitor reported that the Vole's Internet Explorer has an overall 66.1 per cent worldwide market share and that Firefox has a 28 per cent market share, which is a new high. It said Opera has a 3.3 per cent market share and Safari has 2 per cent.
XiTi Monitor also said that more than 90 per cent of Firefox users are running the latest version, Firefox 2, while fewer than half of Internet Explorer users have migrated from IE6 to IE7. ยต
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I think people who use firefox have actually gone out of their way to install and run it, which means they're likely to keep it up-to-date.

The majority who run IE (the casual using public) probably don't even upgrade windows let alone their browser. 

With the major link between IE Windows, it's more of a sub-program than a full product. Firefox is first and foremost a web browser whose development is independent of other products' development cycles.
It's just me or the french outfit name sounds like "sh^^^y monitor"?

back to the article, it's a really good thing competition and some variety in the browser market...
Given the Inq is a UK-based site, why does this article ommit UK figures for FirePheasant usage?
I call on all loyal Microsoftians to do their UTMOST to reverse this trend AT ONCE! Internet Explorer MUST NOT lose its position as de-facto standard web browser!

Why, even its name tells you how standard its function is--it's Internet Explorer, because it ALONE is capable of letting you Explore the Internet. NO OTHER tool can do this! What are you supposed to do with Firefox--fox the fire? That's a laugh, ennit?

So, if you don't want the Exploration of the Internet to turn into a Foxful of Fires, you must HELP KEEP IE DOMINANT!!
How much of the growth is due to Windows 2000 users who cannot install IE7?
I call on all loyal Microsoftians to do their UTMOST to reverse this trend AT ONCE! Internet Explorer MUST NOT lose its position as de-facto standard web browser!

Why, even its name tells you how standard its function is--it's Internet Explorer, because it ALONE is capable of letting you Explore the Internet. NO OTHER tool can do this! What are you supposed to do with Firefox--fire the foxes? That's a laugh, ennit?

So, if you don't want the Exploration of the Internet to turn into a Foxful of Fires, you must HELP KEEP IE DOMINANT!!
The Win2k actually has under 5% market share (when it comes to browsers) whereas Linux has 3.5%. One way or the other, Win2k is dying so you'd better switch to WinXP while you still can. Vista is not an upgrade option.
My original post, which I was correcting values for never made it to the site. Was it because of the word starting with Lin and ending with ux? Bad Inquirer, bad, bad, BAD! 

@Bob Innit: The British seem to be backwards techwise. UK is the 3rd last country on the list in Europe (some 17% for you).