__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 10 July 2006 08:32 \__
> A couple of days ago there was an article in the International Herald
> Tribune on Firefox, highlighting their presence in Europe. I don't
> remember the figures exactly, but the following is to the best of my
> memory from the article.
I came across an article about the headquarters of Firefox some days ago, but
didn't go beyond the title and the excerpt. I wonder if it is related to
your next paragraph.
> Firefox has an office in Paris, a small, informal place on the 4th
> floor of some nondescript building with 3 employees. Firefox has 50
> something employees worldwide. They gave statistics by country on
> Firefox adoption, comparing May 2005 with May 2006. The figures
> approximately doubled in most countries in that time, 3% to 7% in the
> US, approximately 10% to 20% in most European countries. The Firefox
> people said they had a pretty steady rate of downloads, but they could
> notice the rate going up after every announcement of a new security
> problem with Internet Explorer. Finland has the highest percentage of
> Firefox adoption, 37% I believe, while Spain seems most resistant.
http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement13.asp
The article is in French, but figure speak louder than word. The figures are
out of date, I ought to add.
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