Firefox in Central and Eastern Europe 8.04.2006
Posted by marcoos in firefox, in english, l10n, mozilla.trackback
Gemius is a web statistics company which provides its services to many sites in Poland, including all the major web portals like Onet or Gazeta. Aggregated whole-Poland statistics from Gemius are presented at www.ranking.pl. Gemius has also recently opened its subsidiares in the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Ukraine.
I think it might be interesting to compare the market share of Firefox and Gecko in these four countries:
| Poland | Czech Republic | Lithuania | Ukraine | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | 18.7% | 14.2% | 7.5% | 6.1% |
| Gecko | 20.0% | 15.6% | 8.3% | 7.3% |
Yes, I am as happy as Gandalf is, that every fifth Internaut in Poland uses a Gecko-based browser. I still remember the days when Gecko had a market share of 2% or lower. So, it's a great success and I'd like to repeat Gandalf's congratulations to the whole Polish Mozilla community. I'm also pretty sure that 20% is not our final word. ;-)
It's clearly visible that Firefox has greater market share in countries, where official localizations are available. So, every effort should be made to help non-official localizations to "officialize" themselves, and avoid situations like bug 281662 (Lithuanian official localization of Firefox 1.5 is blocked since February due to no apparent reason).
Firefox
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Probably the best browser on the world.
Firefox is the top browser and it will definitely take ovet the web in few years.
[...] Dzisiaj w ramach eksperymentalnych niedziel (*) postanowiłem pobawić się Flockiem, czyli alternatywą wobec alternatywy w świecie browserów. Ile procent użytkowników wykorzystuje Flocka? Nie mam pojęcia, ale gdy usłyszałem, że w Polsce Firefox ma już prawie 20% rynku, to na mojej (własnej) wizji człowieka idącego pod prąd pojawiła się rysa. Czyżby trzeba było szukać nowej szalupy ratunkowej? [...]