Firefox achieves 100% market share in over 14% of continents

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-an-daily-20090101-20090306-bar

by kirubakaran • 17 years ago

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throw_away• 17 years ago

I'm sure that this has been noted, but in this graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20090101... it's interesting to see how ie6's number dips down every weekend---presumably due to office workers under corporate mandates during the week and left to their own devices on saturday and sunday.

ROFISH• 17 years ago

Interestingly, there's the same weekend bump for Vista over XP.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20090101-20090306

whughes• 17 years ago

Not the same bump -- Vista is bundled with IE7. Presumably we are looking at bumps for different segments of the population, using Vista and XP/IE6 respectively.

truebosko• 17 years ago

I didn't know Europe was so heavy into Firefox, a major difference between other parts of the world.

DEinspanjer4• 17 years ago

Yep. Germany is the second largest country for Firefox usage. US 27% Germany 11% France 5%

aodhan• 17 years ago

Where did you get your figures from?

According to StatCounter Global Stats, for Germany in February 2009 Firefox usage was at 58% and IE usage was at 34%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200902-200902-...

tvon• 17 years ago

90% of statistics are 100% B.S..

tlrobinson• 17 years ago

But 5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions anyway.

zain• 17 years ago

Summary: Firefox has 100% marketshare in one continent, Antarctica, out of what is most likely a very tiny sample size. Please stop with the linkbait titles.

alecst• 17 years ago

I think you missed the joke.

Raphael• 17 years ago

I think he got it but has no sense of humor.

simoncoggins• 17 years ago

I'm not sure which clients would indicate they were browsing from Antarctica.

All the British stations use a satellite link to the British Antarctic Survey headquarters in Cambridge, UK. The link to the Antarctic is transparent to the outside world so all browsing down on the stations (and ships) appears to come from a Cambridge IP address. I'm sure many of the other Antarctic stations work the same way.

The VoIP phone system works the same way so you can ring the station using a "local" Cambridge number. This often lead to strange conversations when people dialled the wrong number and found out they had accidentally phoned the Antarctic.

DEinspanjer4• 17 years ago

That is an interesting issue, and one I've never considered before cause I just took the data from MaxMind for granted. I work for Mozilla crunching numbers. There isn't any way I could share any IP addresses of course. If you pull down the data from MaxMind and do a search for AQ, you'll see a set of IP address ranges that are recorded as being located in Antarctica. We get a small amount of traffic from IP addresses in those ranges.

noamsml• 17 years ago

Why the FUCK does that graph go to 110%?

mindaugas• 17 years ago

checkout russian federation - Opera has largest market share! This is really wierd ...

At least after 2009 01 01

slater• 17 years ago

It seems that statcounter was having trouble figuring out Opera usage, check out the wild swings in this graph:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-daily-20080701-2009030...

Either IE dropped by 15% overnight, last September (with Opera taking those 15%), or SC figured a way around Opera's IE cloaking. Or maybe a new version of Opera came out that had Opera set by default as its UA string? Anyone know?

DEinspanjer4• 17 years ago

Opera has several different levels of cloaking, and it can really through a UA parser for a loop. Opera can declare itself solely as Opera, or as IE but still mention that it is Opera, or as Firefox but still mention it is Opera, or as IE or Firefox without mentioning it is Opera, or whatever the user wants to type in there to be clever.

chorny• 17 years ago

Opera is very popular in Russia and other CIS countries.

Firefox achieves 100% market share in over 14% of continents

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