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

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

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Post by whughes »

ROFISH wrote: post #10
throw_away wrote: post #2

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.

Interestingly, there's the same weekend bump for Vista over XP. http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-daily-20090101-20090306

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.

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

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Post by DEinspanjer »

simoncoggins wrote: post #6

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 pho…

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.

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

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Post by Raphael »

alecst wrote: post #7
zain wrote: post #5

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.

I think you missed the joke.

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

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

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Post by slater »

mindaugas wrote: post #16

checkout russian federation - Opera has largest market share! This is really wierd ... At least after 2009 01 01

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?

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

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Post by unalone »

Raphael wrote: post #15
alecst wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you missed the joke.

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

I think he got it, and thinks it's very stupid to submit a story that's already been on Hacker News with a title that manages at once to both make something look overblown, and to make a stupid lame joke that's below the standards of this site.

Perhaps I have no sense of humor either.

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

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Post by DEinspanjer »

slater wrote: post #17
mindaugas wrote: post #16

checkout russian federation - Opera has largest market share! This is really wierd ... At least after 2009 01 01

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?

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.

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

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Post by aodhan »

DEinspanjer wrote: post #12
truebosko wrote: post #3

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

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

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-...

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