In Indonesia, a Winner For Now In the Browser Wars 76
angry tapir writes "Mozilla is building an army of volunteers in Indonesia to help customize Firefox and recommend add-ons. Mozilla wants that input so it can retain the high market share that Firefox already has in the country. Web statistics company StatCounter puts the share at 75 to 80 percent, the browser's highest in Asia. The worldwide share of Firefox, which competes with Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, is just over 30 percent."
I live in Indonesia... (Score:5, Interesting)
I live in Indonesia and has been using their browsers for several years now. I first used their Netscape 7 several years ago, because at that time Internet Explorer 6 (running under Windows 98 SE) was a real resource hog, eating up SYSTEM and USER resources. I also liked its pop-up blocker. Now I am happily using Firefox 4.0, primarily because it has AdBlock Plus (note that bandwidth is expensive in Indonesia), it still supports Windows XP SP3, and it is, in my opinion, faster than Internet Explorer 8 (with my computer full of ActiveX components installed by legitimate programs).
Re:Who would have thought... (Score:1, Interesting)
Actually you would probably find a higher incidence of Windows in Indonesia compared to America/Europe. People in developing countries use products that are good, not on the basis of open-source vs. monopoly arguments.
Then why would they use Windows?
Re:There is no winner (Score:4, Interesting)
It's a constant battle for supremacy. Firefox hasn't won anything.It's simply the leader at the moment.
Firefox already won ! .Net, and Silverlight would already destroyed Flash.
In the days mozilla started, there where sites requiring VBscript and ActiveX to display.
If mozilla failed your servers would be running IIS, and