8.82 per cent of UK now using Firefox web browser

Posted by grouch on Aug 10, 2006 9:10 PM EDT
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About 9 per cent of the UK is using the Firefox web browser, according to new research. More than one in four Germans are using the Firefox web browser to access the Internet, the highest rate among major Western European countries and one of the highest in the world, according to data from WebSideStory.

So, if a public sector web site has not been checked for successful Firefox usage, a check ought rapidly to be done - as IE and Firefox display pages differently. Cross-browser compatibility is important.

[Standards, especially the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, should rank higher in importance than individual browser compatibility. Browsers should evolve to meet those standards. -- grouch]

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