FF2 vs IE7: light advantage for the red panda in Europe 2007-07-13
For XiTi Monitor, the war that the navigators Firefox 2 deliver themselves and Internet Explorer 7 on the old continent are turning to the advantage of the product of Foundation Mozilla, better accomodated than its counterpart from Microsoft.
Admittedly as XiTi Monitor in its news étude* underlines it interesting 32 European countries, Internet Explorer still largely dominates the market of the navigators, but a domination which does not take place however any more to be since one is interested in the case of his last grinding in date.
While being focused only on the duel Internet Explorer 7 against Firefox 2, XiTi Monitor puts thus ahead a light advantage for FF2. Whereas at the beginning of March the average share of visits in a European country was about 19% for IE7 against 15,6% with FF2, at the beginning of July, it passed from 22,6% to IE7 against 23,1% to FF2.
Firefox 2 seems moreover better adopted by the users vis-a-vis its old versions with 83,2% of Firefox visits generated by FF2 over the first week of July, while this rate falls to 33,9% for IE7 in its Internet Explorer family.
The conclusion of XiTi Monitor
“The average share of visits of Firefox 2 for a European country has just exceeded that of Internet Explorer 7. If Internet Explorer is still clearly the navigator leader, it would seem that its last version, contrary to that of Firefox, does not achieve the unanimity. IE7 having left in October 2006, one can suppose that the users of IE6 wanting to make the update had time to make it: would the others be a little more re
