Ireland Mid-Table for Firefox Usage
April 17th, 2007
Slashdot links to these survey results which show a 24.1% usage rate of Firefox in Europe. I’m happy to see that Ireland emerges slightly above average, with a rate of 24.9%, and experiencing a hefty increase. Slovenia grabs gold, with a score of 44.5%, followed by Finland on 41.3%. For some perspective - the UK came in at 18.0%, while North America has 15.1%.
When you consider that other browsers like Opera and Safari must surely rack up at least another 5% between them, there is no justification in this day and age for Internet Explorer Only websites and login systems, which unfortunately are all too common. I don’t have a copy of Windows, and lately I have had to borrow somebody else’s PC to get access to some sites which choose to exclude half of Slovenia and a quarter of the rest of the world. Hopefully these developers will wake up to the fact that Firefox is no longer just a thorn in the side like their old pal 640×480, and restricting to IE only is simply unforgivable. In the meantime, does anyone know a quick fix for emulating Internet Explorer 7 in Linux?
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