In Ukraine, the most popular browser is Firefox 3.x

According to the two global statistics systems Ranking.com.ua and LiveInternet in Ukraine, Firefox 3.x has become the most popular browser. The second in polarity is the ex-leader of the last 12 months, Opera 9.x.

The share of Firefox 3.x has reached 23.5-24% and continues to grow. The latest version of Firefox 3.5 includes the TraceMonkey engine for JavaScript, due to which it is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3 and ten times as fast as Firefox 2. *. In addition, such innovations and improvements have appeared: private browsing mode, smart address bar, restoring a session, and more ( http://www.mozilla-europe.org/ru/firefox/features/ ). Opera 9.x began to lose its audience due to the release of a new version of Opera 10.x. Despite this, the share of all browsers Opera has increased over the year to 32.7-33.4% and practically caught up with Internet Explorer from 37.3-37.6%.

Browser preferences among users of Ukraine

	October 2009	November 2008
Firefox 3.x	23.5-24%	13.9-12.6%
Opera 9.x	22.3%	26.5-28%
Internet Explorer 7.x	16.6-19.2%	21.0-23.1%
Internet Explorer 6.x	12.0-13.7%	25.5-26.9%
Opera 10.x	9.2-10.2%	-
Internet Explorer 8.x	6.2-6.9%	0.3%
Chrome 3.x	1.8%	-

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Internet Explorer 7.x, which has not become so popular, has begun to lose its audience moving to a more modern and successful Internet Explorer 8.x (6% of users). The share of Internet Explorer 6.x has decreased by 2 times, but is still used by more than 10% of users creating problems for website developers. Opera 10.x has reached 10% and will actively grow due to the transition of users from version 9. Well, the youngest browser, called the fastest, Chrome 3.x reached an audience of 2%. In total, these 7 browsers are used by more than 95% of users from Ukraine.

If we consider the distribution of the share of browsers by manufacturers, then at the moment it is next.

	October 2009	November 2008
Internet Explorer	37.4%	48.5-49.4%
Opera	33.4%	28.6-29.5%
Firefox	25.4%	19-20.6%
Chrome	2.6%	-

These statistical systems are available at http://www.ranking.com.ua/en/ranking/web-browsers.html and http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/browsers.html?slice=ukr; date = 2009-09 -...
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