Should Microsoft join the Firefox codebase team and dump Internet Explorer?
Of course, it all depends who you are listening to when it comes to browser client market share statistics. The Seattle Times was listening to OneStat.com when it reported that Internet Explorer is on the rise for the first time in a couple of years (up 2.8 percent from July to 85.9 percent) and Firefox on the slide (down 1.44 percent to 11.49 percent in the same period.) But even then, look beyond the global figures and you notice that browser client popularity is a very country specific thing: Internet Explorer usage is highest in the Netherlands at 88.47 percent and lowest in Germany at just 60 percent where Firefox is the most popular at 33.42 percent, users in both the Netherlands and UK are least enamored with Firefox which gets a lowly 9.77 percent of market share there. No matter where you look, according to the Amsterdam based OneStat.com figures at least, the order of popularity remains unchanged: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Netscape. Although the latter on
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