I had no idea…just found out about it in an article actually about the rise of Chrome in Europe
http://img.clubic.com/photo/03397026.jpg
found here:
http://www.clubic.com/navigateur-internet/actualite-354448-parts-de-marche-navigateurs-internet-europe.html
the next graph is for Europe globally:
Wow, the Germans really don’t like IE then ;D
Always knew the Germans where smart people… ;D ;D ;D
Kind of a shame that Opera does not have a larger user base. Over the years it has had overall better track record as to vulnerabilities and response time to fixing vulnerabilities when they do occur.
Fx is also my default browser mainly due to features of several key extensions, and if not for these extensions then Opera would be my default instead of being secondary browser.
I do quite a bit of printing from web sites hence until Chrome provides page setup options/settings (as all the other browsers), cannot not really use even as a secondary browser. Also on my systems Chrome is not much faster than Fx. Maybe that’s due to the tweaks I’ve applied to Fx:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23524435-FireFox-Fx-v36-series-Speed-Tweaks
Opera is a very good browser. But the lack of addons and configurability always brings me back to Firefox 
+1
Recently when there was a security vulnerability in IE , the German government intervened and asked people to use a different browser…
I wish a German developed a Internet browser because Germans have this knack of making things perfect, nearly perfect.
yeah I admit Opera market share being so low is a shame. It’s a very good browser indeed, faster than Chrome now (well on the benchmarks…), and it has “Unite”. But again, they refuse to adopt an extension system; would be very limited anyway as long as they keep refusing to open the code. My guess is also that Opera is still suffering for having been a paid browser…made them have a rather bad reputation when Netscape and IE were free for ages… I don’t even know when it became free…anyway, Opera is still the official browser of the French administration
they did the same with Firefox 
(temporarily, until a flaw got patched)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/22/germany_firefox_warning/
The vulnerability in IE only affect versions 6 & 7. IE 8 is not included.
IHMO Opera making a big mistake by not adding the ability to uses add-ons; and the Widgets don’t even come close.
Have not read up as to all the changes made to Opera since to 10.x versions, but the 8.x and 9.0 versions one could to do quite a bit of customization if they learned how to use Opera’s User JavaScript.
Hi forum friends,
What I think is bad policy is that when you do not/cannot upgrade Windows OS you cannot use their latest IE version any longer. What about all the firms where the boss/staff chains his/their workers to an insecure Windows SP2 console?
polonus
Iron is a German browser based on Chrome. http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
based on Chrome...okay, we're talking development...not "mod" ;) ...any browser based on Chrome is still Chrome, not a new browser, whatever the modifications are...
Me neither, but thanks for the very interesting info…!!
asyn
But i think chrome is better,or to be more clear any thing google programs is the best like picasa,gmail,gtalk,google earth,their new os chromium ,and so on…
I think that four people use SeaMonkey and I’m one of them.
I prefer not to live at the bottom of the ocean.
I would really have to disagree with that. I use both Gmail and GMX and I prefer the latter but I don’t use the web based part of either one, I retrieve my mail with Outlook Express. I do prefer the web access in GMX though. It’s simpler and easier to navigate. The only Google offering I use regularly is the search and that’s just because I always have and I can always find what I’m looking for. The Google OS is a joke that is most likely doomed to failure or at best to be a niche application with limited adoption.
DCH I got a GMX account…I’m getting reminders regularly from them asking me if I forgot about…them. And the answer would definitely be, each time they mail me: YES 
(and I see you’re using Outlook Express, best email client I suppose ;D )
I never get anything from GMX like that. The only things I get from them are notices of new features which are added on a regular basis.
Actually, yes, Outlook Express is the best email client I have ever used. It’s simple and does everything I need to do with an email program. Thunderbird is a nightmare and impossible to get to work correctly. The only other client I like is Windows Mail in Vista or Live Mail for XP which works pretty much the same as OE.