{"id":2227,"date":"2010-01-19T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:05:38","slug":"people-in-germany-are-switching-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/19\/people-in-germany-are-switching-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"People in Germany Are Switching Browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, an agency of the German government <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/01\/15\/german-government-stop-using-internet-explorer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a warning<\/a> against the use of Internet Explorer.\u00a0 What has been the impact on Firefox and the Mozilla community?\u00a0 Looking at the chart below, we can see that over the past few days there has been a <strong>huge increase<\/strong> in the number of Firefox downloads from IE users in Germany.\u00a0 The orange area is meant to represent the &#8220;incremental&#8221; impact, i.e., the number of downloads beyond what we would have normally expected on those days.\u00a0 As the chart highlights, the orange area adds up to just over 300,000 downloads during the recent Friday-Monday period.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2228\" title=\"Impact_from_Germany_v2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_Germany_v2.png\" alt=\"Impact_from_Germany_v2\" width=\"548\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_Germany_v2.png 548w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_Germany_v2-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, an agency of the German government issued a warning against the use of Internet Explorer.\u00a0 What has been the impact on Firefox and the Mozilla community?\u00a0 Looking at the chart below, we can see that over the past &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/19\/people-in-germany-are-switching-browsers\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}