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- awilke, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52Slightly misleading title, while we are ahead of the world average, I believe some countries of europe are over the 30% mark.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+53Canada is awesome.
- stomicron, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45You are correct. Finland, Slovenia, and Germany are at 30% or more, with total European usage being over 20%:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39247539,00.htm
Marked as inaccurate. - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42I guess the author doesn't think the "world" extends outside of north america.
- mrmedia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Edit "Canada leads Americas in Firefox usage"
- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29Yet, just another of the Many MANY things that makes canada an awesome place...
- nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Off-topic: I am just another ignorant American, but I truly love our neighbor to the north. I apologize for my fellow countrymen who enjoy poking fun of you guys for various reasons because I and many of my friends think you really are a kickass country.
Just as an aside: I live in Maine, is there any chance of Quebec or New Brunswick annexing us? - whitehatlurker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18So the title should read "Canada trails world average in MS IE adoption."
- bluelines, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15It bothers me that so many people still use Internet Explorer. I think IE should be used once and only once: to get to the Mozilla website in order to download Firefox!
- tysonwilliams, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16We are a leader in many other areas too! GO CANADA!
- bsears, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16zopu - I suppose few people have seen Talking to Americans - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_To_Americans
- thedak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13*crosses his fingers* Go Canada! Man I hope we don't lose :(
- stomicron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You take a sample of website hits, and mark their IP addresses and browsers. Then you hope that sample was representative of the population.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10You can't do it reliably. For example, most of the people who use MySpace are probably IE users, but they don't release that information. Most of the people who use Digg are probably Firefox users, with a small share of Opera (bless your heart).
- burnt1ce85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I remember watching that. A cop in the show said that Texas was bigger than Canada. LOL
- wintermute1974, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10This story is bigger than just Firefox. Look at the Opera stats as well: 2.15% of Canadians use Opera, while the world stats are 0.79%
Overall, only 77.41% of Canadians are using IE, which is lower than both the World and U.S. totals listed.
Just goes to show that a significant minority of Canadians aren't MSIE sheep. - pornel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I thought that was Opera's excuse...
- cyclo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If you Maine was part of Canada, you too would be celebrating a long weekend... it is Victoria Day on Monday.
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7How about other countries? I don't want to know specifics about just two countries, I want to see what the trend is around each continent... Those percent figures seem a little low, I don't know anyone who doesn't use Firefox, even my grandparents use it... I don't see anyone firing up IE to surf the internet.
- dexp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I wonder if Call For Help has any thing to do with this? Leo LaPorte is one of Firefox's biggest fans
- pornel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8http://ranking.pl/
Poland has 19% Firefox + 6% Opera (in 12mln sample) - Skeksis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I was disappointed to see the small percentage of people using Opera. If you never gave it a try you should definitely check it out. I like it better than firefox. not trying to promote it, lol, just think a lot of people would like it better.
- mirunit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Agreed, this is inaccurate.
- lightningrod220, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, and sadly, TechTV is no longer here in the states. I hope G4's corporate offices are engulfed in a firey explosion, and the suits responsible for the TechTV demise are all burned alive. Only then can the world have peace.
- AirRaven, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'd say that Firefox just has the edge over Opera if you have need of anything which extensions offer. Opera 9's Widgets just don't come close to the integration of extensions.
Otherwise, Opera trumps it hands down in most respects. Both are fantastic browsers in their own rights, though. - worbd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You are right, in a way. Opera is certainly smaller, faster and more secure than Firefox.
But Opera was adware for a long time, and then Firefox came around and it was "good enough" (far better than IE mind you), and it was free as in beer. Mozilla hired professionals to do marketing, and the rest is history.
If Opera had gone free without ads before Firefox was finished, it might have been in a better position today.
Extensions may have contributed to Firefox's popularity to a certain extent. However, I find extensions to be very problematic. They are rather buggy, cause various problems, and break when upgrading. Opera has most of the most useful features built in an integrated smoothly already.
And Opera is partially extensible by installing new toolbars, buttons, with User JavaScript, etc. - MatejPuntar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Some graphs and maps at:
http://standblog.org/blog/2005/11/09/93114493-firefox-market-share-study-for-the-first-anniversary - vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4the previous post should read:
"why are you people moaning about the article title and synopsis, it only gives incorrect information and a bunch of confusing numbers".
if I could rate your comment lame, I would have. - geminem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3many people in Taiwan use alternative browsers too-- like KKMan and PCMan (but i don't know if these are IE-based like Maxthon though). just thought i'd share this info about these two more obscure browsers. =)
- worbd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, Opera does better at those basic things like speed, memory usage, etc. Firefox may have extensions, but that's kind of on top of the actual browser.
- steal_apps01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah its because of Call For Help they plug Firefox nonstop Leo Laporte not "Leo LaPorte" is a Firefox groupie. TechTV lives on in Canada but that's cause the US keeps all the other country's poor look at Spain, Mexico... The USA-holes are wrecking the world and it's own citizens are blind to it. More Americans vote for American Idol then for Bush/Kerry that's just wrong.
- stomicron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@mrmedia
There's no mention of South America in the article.
More like "Canadian Firefox use above average" - Johnnie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay... please no data dumps, lets describe the article next time!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5yea, go Canada
- id000001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4As much as I like Canada (myself being one) being world leader in using a better browser, this is inaccurate. Reported. No dig.
- mozillaman0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh I'm sorry that our hockey players are good enough to be in the NHL playoffs.
Please digg me down because i responded to this un tech-related *****. - diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Innacurate, Canada does not lead the world in Firefox usage.
- SuperFarStucker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It continues to amaze me that Opera has such a miniscule market share when it is the technological leader by any measure. It just goes to show that this 'war' cannot be won by technical superiority.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2go tim hortons ! the trash is because of "roll up the rim"
is anyone really suprised by these reslults? not me - MugatuOT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Canadians also eat more donuts per capita and generate more garbage per capita than anyone else on the plant.
- yaosio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This only shows the numbers for people visiting Onestat, not every user in the world. GG next map.
- 7diesel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2say hello to the digg grammar fascists. you better keep the grammar book nearby, cos correct grammar is soo important to them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is a worse counting job than Florida 2002.
- htaccess, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so canada has more firefox users that the world average != to most in world!
- alanspach, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3what about the one computer on antartica. Whatever it is running would be 100% market share!
- MatCon5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why jpesicka2 ? you scared of something getting done right for the world? not blowing people up? not being owned and controlled by your government? not being so darn scared of everyone inculding yourselves that you need to spy on your citizens? -Government works for you, you don't work for the government-
- bchang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tech TV is a specialty channel that you have to order specifically so most people do not get the channel.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what.
- ultrasoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is wrong info! Slovenia leads at 35.8%.What a load of BS. North America isn't the only continent around ...
- edysteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is call for help tv back in the us on G4 or crap4?
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