Where in the world do you use Firefox?
24 February 2008When talking about Mozilla usage worldwide we have often talked about which locale of the browser people are using. We are quite proud of the fact that Firefox is available in 50 languages and the fact that the growth of other locales is outpacing en-US. The dedication of Mozilla localization communities worldwide are a very big part of Firefox’s success.
Since I knew I was coming to FOSDEM this weekend with many Mozilla localizers I wanted to know not just which language of Firefox people use but where in the world people use Firefox. John Lilly blogged earlier about how we use AUS data to get an aggregate view of Firefox usage. We looked at AUS data for December (comparing it against a Geo IP database) - the results were surprising:
Some details of note:
- As near as we can tell there are active Firefox users in every country on the planet. This includes Norfolk Island(Population Tokelau
- People from the United States account for less that 30% of Firefox users worldwide
- China is the fastest growing locale in relative share. Between November and December it overtook Australia in active users
The combination of locale growth and worldwide usage growth are an amazing reminder of how Firefox and Mozilla are truly worldwide projects.
16 Responses to “Where in the world do you use Firefox?”
February 24th, 2008 at 6:45 am
This is impressive indeed! One note about the Vatican: The last Pope (John Paul II) was allegedly very much into modern media and thus, the Vatican now has a lot of websites in many languages, as well as several radio stations etc.; it’s only fair to assume then that some of the people who make all this happen (like the ones who maintain the vatican.va website content) also use Firefox.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Unfortunately the number of downloads can’t be used as the user count. But if we do this for research purposes we get something like: 65 million people of Germany’s 80 million user Firefox… What a worthwile idea
February 25th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Germany loves Firefox. *hugs*
February 25th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
The Other slice is a a bit large. Can you provide us deeper details about that? Personally I’m interested in the he-IL section.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Excellent data. I would like to see a comparison between that, and the distribution of Firefox locales. I bet there still a majority of en-US users.
BTW, the Tokelau link is broken (see ” character).
June 16th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Firefox is the best Browser, no other like it!!
although India counts in Misc. its still there!!
September 12th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Germany’s 80 million user Firefox…
September 12th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Firefox is the best Browser, no other like it!!
September 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Germany loves Firefox.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Thanks a alot…
October 15th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
thanks…
October 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
thanks
October 19th, 2008 at 2:59 am
thank you
sohbet
October 21st, 2008 at 7:15 am
Thanks
November 4th, 2008 at 9:12 am
thanks.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:42 am
a good read.