Firefox has now taken over nearly 18 percent of the French Internet browser market, approaching the European average of 20 percent, according to a survey carried out in January by XiTi Monitor, an Internet site quality management service.The French police force is abandoning
Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer Web browser for the Mozilla Foundation's browser Firefox, the gendarmerie's information technology head said at the end of a conference by supporters of so-called open-source computer technologies.
The police force's 70,000 desktop computers are being converted to Firefox and its e-mail client Thunderbird because of the navigator's "reliability, security and inter-operability with other state services," said General Christian Brachet, IT director of the police force.
The move should be complete by the end of the year, he said. It follows the police department's decision last year to migrate from the Microsoft Office suite of applications to OpenOffice for all of its desktops.
Firefox has now taken over nearly 18 percent of the French Internet browser market, approaching the European average of 20 percent, according to a survey carried out in January by XiTi Monitor, an Internet site quality management service.
It still has a way to go, however, before matching the 38 percent market penetration the Mozilla navigator has achieved in Finland
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