Mozilla in Asia

Cheng, who runs the excellent Thai blog Mhafai.com, and is one of Mozilla’s most active community members in Thailand, writes in with an update from Truehits.net, a Thai web statistics service that tracks among other things browser share.

In April 2009, we saw that Firefox was climbing steadily at about 9% market share.

The new update from Truehits.net tells us that we are now above 13% market share, having grown from 7.4% a year ago.

The bad news is that IE 6.0 still has over 40% share in Thailand and IE 7.0 has over 30% share.  Both older versions of IE have been declining as Firefox and IE 8 have been growing, but not nearly as fast as we would hope.

The growth we are seeing in Thailand is largely due to the heroic efforts of our localization leader, Patipat ‘Keng’ Susumpow, and the community of testers and Mozilla developers, some who have been filing bugs for Thai-related issues since 2002.

We’ll be doing more in Thailand in 2009 and 2010 and would love to hear from Thai users as to what the important bugs are to fix and what Mozilla should consider doing to help Firefox grow in Thailand.  Thanks to Keng, Cheng, Art, and all of the Thai Mozilla community members without which we would not have this growing user base.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 am and is filed under Asia, Firefox, Thailand, community. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.