{"id":2242,"date":"2010-01-21T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:05:37","slug":"people-in-france-and-australia-are-also-switching-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/21\/people-in-france-and-australia-are-also-switching-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"People in France and Australia Are Also Switching Browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/19\/people-in-germany-are-switching-browsers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">warning from the German government<\/a> against the use of Internet Explorer, the governments of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/01\/18\/france-against-internet-explorer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/19\/2795684.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australia<\/a> followed suit earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/19\/people-in-germany-are-switching-browsers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis<\/a> of the impact in Germany, we wanted to see what happened this week with IE users downloading Firefox in both France and Australia.\u00a0 There are a couple patterns you&#8217;ll notice with the pictures below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rate at which IE users downloaded Firefox roughly doubled in each country.\u00a0 That\u2019s a huge increase!<\/li>\n<li>As we mentioned last time, the shaded orange areas are meant to represent the incremental number of downloads each day that are above what we would have expected on those days (i.e., they are downloads that can be described as directly attributable to the government warnings).<\/li>\n<li>The cumulative orange area for France equates to about 60,000 downloads and the cumulative area for Australia translates to about 35,000 downloads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>France:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2243\" title=\"Impact_from_France\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_France.png\" alt=\"Impact_from_France\" width=\"471\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_France.png 471w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_France-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Australia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2247\" title=\"Impact_from_Australia\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_Australia1.png\" alt=\"Impact_from_Australia\" width=\"463\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_Australia1.png 463w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/files\/2010\/01\/Impact_from_Australia1-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s warning from the German government against the use of Internet Explorer, the governments of France and Australia followed suit earlier this week. Similar to our analysis of the impact in Germany, we wanted to see what happened &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2010\/01\/21\/people-in-france-and-australia-are-also-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\/2242"}],"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=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}