Firefox has become the most popular browser in Europe

StatCounter - an online statistical service company confirmed this a few days ago. As of December 2010, this open-source browser accounted for 38.11% market share in Europe while Microsoft's IE only 37.52%, Chrome's Google only 14.58%.

One factor that is expected to affect IE's market share decline is that the European Commission applies antitrust law to Microsoft, which gives customers the freedom to choose their own default browser.

Microsoft and the European Commission signed an agreement in October 2009, whereby those who choose Windows operating systems will be given the option to change their default browser Internet Explorer to one of the other 11 browsers. given. Microsoft must maintain this for 4 years.

However, one consolation for Microsoft is that its browser still leads the market in North America with 48.92%, Firefox only accounts for 26.7%, Chrome next is 12.82% and Safari with 10.16%.