Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe

peterkern writes "The July browser market share reports are somewhat inconsistent, but if we believe StatCounter, then it looks like Firefox will be overtaking Microsoft IE's market share next month. The two browsers are both within 1 point of 40% market share, IE above and Firefox below. Europeans are more crazy about Firefox than Americans: In Germany, Firefox has a 61% market share, while IE has only 25%. Google Chrome is, according to StatCounter, now above 10%. ConceivablyTech has more details, including market share data from both StatCounter and Net Applications (which as of this month is limiting its free data)."

Re:opera for the win

[cc1984_]

I use opera instead. I find IE just as much security issue prone as IE.

To offer a counter argument, from my personal experience I've found Opera to be as much of a security issue as Opera.

Re:Browser market share

[uffe_nordholm]

Don't worry, eventually the metric system will take over the USA, inch by inch.

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Re:Browser market share

[Sloppy]

Why is it that a bewildering number of smart people has been indoctrinated into believing that the "free market" is the only solution to everything?

Because my dog just had surgery (which included a hysterectomy, an RFID cyber-implant, and 4 baby teeth pulled) for a total cost of $200. That is what health care costs (with a reasonable markup to cover overhead and profit). With humans, I understand if people want to include some additional safeguards, so maybe multiply that cost by n (where I'm thinking of a number like two or three, not a hundred!), and that tells you the potential that a free market has to offer the problem of health care.

Likewise, I can look at the cost of a hotel room in a free market ($50-$200; I know this varies wildly depending on where it is) plus the cost of a well-trained expert (say $75/hour, except amortized across several customers, just like doctors and nurses work in real life) and that tells you what a hospital room can cost.

When you think about these numbers and compare them to what we currently pay, I wonder how people can not desperately want a free market.

It is beyond debate that a completely laissez faire approach to markets ultimately leads to distortions that prevent efficient resource distribution

You know what? I'll concede that; free markets aren't perfect. But can a market planned by government (i.e. lobbyists) have so little distortion?

Why are people upholding US health care as some kind of example of free markets? If the US had a free market for health care, we would all be bitching about how Wal-Mart surgeons are squeezing the mom'n'pops out of business. Doctors would be complaining that it's hard to repay their student loans on their $20/hour job, yet not quite impossible since, after all, the student loan is only for about $5000 * years_in_school.

Re:Browser market share

[yo_tuco]

"I was really hoping for an analogy using the metric system."

I, on the other hand, was hoping for a car analogy.